frank staples 2

1. Skywriter 2. Volksplane 3. Super Kaos

Yes, I'll gradually replace my orange with Futaba. Trouble is they're sooooo expensive

Thanks for your comments everyone - much appreciated

Yes, I think this will be the way forward. I have spoken to a colleague since you posted this and he has been caught out with a Futaba receiver going into digital servo mode with a similar result. A lesson learned I think!!

I think I may have found the cause. I've taken the seized servos out and they are burnt out. Looking through everything else and starting from scratch, I have found that the RX reverts to the setting for digital servos if you re-bind the TX. Two of the affected planes ,when checked were showing a fast flash for digital servos, even though they had originally been set for non digital servos. Still not sure why the elevator was affected on all three planes, the rudder was affected on only one, but I suspect I have stumbled across the problem. Thanks for your interest and fast response

I wonder if anyone can come up with a suggestion on what is causing my elevator servos to continually burn out? I have been using Orange rx's for about two years without any problems at all. Now all of a sudden I have started to burn out the elevator servos of different planes.The elevator operates fine. Take off and at some point - could be three or four flights or just one the elevator starts operating erratically. If I can get it down fast enough, I save the plane, if not, the elevator stops working. When checking, the servo is seized. After much head scratching, it was suggested that my FF9 was faulty. I replaced it with a second hand Futaba 10CG. Every think OK? NO.Glider up, elevator and rudder seized solid. HK Sky Mule. Checking operation in pits. Funny noise, elevator and rudder servos seized, ESC burnt out. TX Fail Safe is turned off and RX is set for non digital servos. Any suggestions (apart from the obvious) would be more than welcome