ORIGINAL: MikeMayberry

The Optima RX's can pull a fair amount of current at start up... An old 4 cell 600Mah Nicad?!?!? I strongly believe it is the battery; charged doesn't mean a thing if it cant handle the load. Change the battery or use another battery in the SPC and I'll bet you a dollar the problem goes away. The antennas touching won't hurt a thing.

FYI: Here's a new feature in the upcoming V1.07 firmware. It allows you to select a custom low voltage alarm (per model) and logs the highest and lowest voltage realized during the flight. The advantage here is if you are powering your servos and the receiver together (no SPC) you will see how low the battery was under full load in flight. If you fly electric, you can tap power off the main flight battery to power the SPC (eliminating a brown out if the BEC sags) and then you can set a low voltage warning when the power pack got to a certain level.

I think it's way cool!

Also, at start up... you know how if you don't have the right model selected you have to say no, and then tap the model name to get to the select screen? Now just tap the model and it goes to the select screen making it easier to change models if the wrong one is selected.

There is also a mute function (You can have your wives send me a thank you card) and the ability to deactivate the throttle stick and/or condition warnings.

There's other stuff too but those are the things I like the most.

You like?

Mike