I HAVE PURCHASED APPROX 10 SET OF THESE RETRACTS AND STILL HAVE PROBLEMS WITH LOTS OF THEM. HAS ANYONE CAME UP WITH A WAY TO MAKE THE GEAR FASTER? HAS ANYONE FOUND A SUPPLIER THAT YOU CAN CHANGE OUT THE SHAFTS WHEN THEY BREAK? CAN ANYONE TELL ME HOW TO STOP THE GLITCHES? I HAVE BURN OUT 6 SERVOS DUE TO THE GEAR GLITCHING, IS THERE A WAY TO STOP THIS? THESE GEAR WILL NOT WORK WITH MY DOOR SEQUENCIER, DOES ANYONE KNOW ONE THAT WILL WORK WITH THE SYSTEM? I REALLY LIKE ELECTRIC GEAR OVER AIR, BUT ANY HELP TO RESOLVE MY PROBLEMS WOULD BE APPRICATED.

Have you looked at the e-flight electric retracts? I heard that they are pretty solid and offer the features that you are looking for...

http://www.e-fliterc.com/Electronics...ndingGear.aspx

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After all the problems with down and lock retracts, I have went back to the eflite gear on the light jets and they work great. They are very cheap and very fast. Thanks for the advice. I never had to put rf filter on eflite gear and they work with everyones door sequincers. Troybuilt models also have gear conversion I am switching to, have not tried them yet. But troybuilt gear is less than 100 buck for a complete set. You can do 5 airplanes for the price of oneof down and locks stuff.

Gizmo,

I have 2 sets of Down And Locked retracts. I have their controller with sequencier. No servos needed on the gear, they plug in to controller. Servos on gear doors should be programable
and high torque. That way you can adjust the travel and the speed on the doors. I have never had a glitch or burned out a servo.

The speed of the jack screw on my Mustang and B-25 are perfect scale speed.

I assume you have talk to Mitch at Down and Locked, since they gear are warentied, send them back.


Chris923

All seven of these gears have been for rework over 3 times. He has tried to reslove the issues but still have problems. I am looking for some help on someone to rework my gear from him so the will work correctly. I have taken 4 set apart and fixed the bind problem and broken screws. I have one set of gear that take 18 second to come down. I did not purchase the sequeciner because I did not read on thier site of any issues. Horizon Hobby put out a service bulletion about issue with another complany product with the 2.4 system, but this was not my problem. On jets you can not have slow gear, if you move the rudder while the gear is coming down, the noise gear will lock and you have to recycle. On slow planes, the slow gear looks scale but is a problem on jets. The first two set of gear that I purchased over 2yrs ago were slow but never failed but only have 8 flights on them. I have contacted a mfg in China to look at some of the gear on the market and try to develop a gear that would work for the scale look and faster gear for the jets. They said it would be a few months before a proto type would be made. Some of the planes are over $20k and I can not take any chances. Thanks for your input.

Well after today. I will pay someone to modify my down and lock gear conversion. I was putting the gear up for its first flight tomorrow with the ME262. First, the falcon (14ft ws approx 90lb )main gear motor stop working on one side. It is making a weird noise and does not work. Does anyone have any ideal what it could be? I have already send them back 3 times for other defects and this motor is making the same noise as the last motor that burned out. Now the ME262 9ft approx 38 lb when I started to put the gear up, one did not move. I troulbe shot the problem and it is the control board. Has anyone had this issue with the board and is there another fix to use these gears without down and lock controller? This will be the last electric conversion I will ever do. I am willing to pay a fair price for a gear if they work. Please give me some ideals. I have 23 other jets I am building and need help. I love the jet tronic electric air valves. I have put them on 9 jets I have built in the last 5 months and have not had one gear to hang up or not work.

My buddy is building the same ME262 and has the same issues, he too need a solution

I am looking for someone that has some of the LADO gears for sale. I would like to get a few set of these gears for smaller jets, I have never had a failure on their gear.