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Old 11-12-2009 | 10:48 AM
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Default RE: engine generated interferance on 2.4


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I am having a heck of a time with an electronic ignition gas engine. I have the 2.4 Spectrum that will not work with this engine. I have one of the RVSC 26 engines from TroyBuilt models. The radio is rock solid as long as the engine is not running. I have read the 2.4 does not suffer from RF interference. I sent my radio to Horizon thinking it is a radio problem. They replaced the transmitter and receiver. I reinstalled the receiver and went to the field today. I charged up and did a range check. When I began flipping the motor, the servos all went hard over and were unresponsive. The LED in the receiver was flashing very fast. I cycled the flight pack battery switch off then on and the receive rebound to the transmitter. Again as I flipped the engine the radio went hard over. Thinking maybe the flight pack switch had failed, I connected the battery straight to the receiver. Same results. Next I tested my theory. I rebound the receiver with the ignition battery switch off. With the radio responding normally, I turned on the ignition switch and checked the radio. It worked fine. Then I pulled the prop through slowly and as soon as the magnet on the prop shaft passed under the ignition pickup sensor, the servos glitched! This happened every time I pulled the prop through. The receiver is well over 12 inches from the ignition module.
I am at a loss of what to do.
This is weird, as I have the same engine as you. I had the engine in a Goldberg Ultimate. I had a throttle and choke servo right behind the firewall. The ignition was mounted right behind them, on top of the landing gear. The rest of the servos were right behind the ignition. Get this, I also ran ONE battery for the whole plane! I should have had problems, but I never. The only time the system glitched is when I replaced the sparkplug with a non resistor. I've read that the cap on the RC Excel style ignition could take a non resistor plug and shield it, but I've found that not to be true. I put a resistor plug back in and the glitching stopped. I would make sure your plug is a resistor and make sure the cap is on all the way. I'm not using Spectrum, I have an RDS8000, but they are both 2.4 radios.