Jan Kristensen

Scott, is it possible that the battery in your Stryker ended up shadowing out the radio signal between your tx and rx ? That would explain the rx going into fail-safe in flight and your Stryker tipstalling into ground.

It is recommended to do a second bind especially if any servo channels are reversed during the servo functional check/setup at the first bind. The second bind ensures that the correct failsafe position is set in the receiver. The min distance of approx 1 meter between Tx and Rx during binding is important, otherwise the binding might fail and the Orange Rx's are more sensitive to that than the Spektrum Rx's.

When I received my DX8 in early 2012 one of the cells in the NiMH pack overheated after few minutes of charging and luckily I had it placed next to me, so I discovered before any damage to the tx. I received a new NiMH package on warranty, and that was ok however the voltage dropped quite quickly and made me feel a bit uncomfortable at the flying field. Then I decided to change to LiPO and bought the cheap package from hobby king. It lasts for hours and hours of flying and I think I recharge every other month or so. I would recommend using LiPO in stead of NiMH. The disadvantage of the DX8 built-in charger is that it will not tell you how many mAhrs was charged, so a rapid decline in voltage does make it feel uncomfortable. The majority of model flyers have a computerised charger anyway, so Spektrum could save the cost of the built-in charger and lower the price or instead spend the money on developing and optimising the Airware.