Neddy

I recently bought an old bixler 2 which needed some minor repairs. It was a simple fix only needing a bit of remoulding and gluing on nose of fuselage. Today I was flying in a light southerly breeze. The sky had small patchy clouds coming past every ten minutes or so. One guy suggested there could be some thermals under the clouds, so I tried flying under these and sure enough there was a good lift under these. So started gliding and sure enough soon the plane was up just about up to the cloud level a tiny speck in the sky. So flying was great going from under one cloud to the other after 45 minutes in the sky decided it was time to land. Checked battery still showed 70% capacity. Really happy with the bixler2. I could have kept going much longer if I had wanted. Good day.

Good news the shop has thoroughly tested the transmitter and found no faults in it. They have given me a completely new plane as a replacement. It has been a few weeks of waiting but I am happy with the outcome. I will happily go back and deal with this shop again.

I had a friend sort out the problem for me by downloading latest software. It meant losing all models saved but there was a lot of obsolete models I wasn't using so no great loss. So now I am back as though I had a new transmitter and have to put in my current models which I am happy to do.

I did try disconnecting and reconnecting the battery. I will look into the HobbyKing pdf. My compu ter is very old running windows 8.1 so I doubt I will be able to do the connection.

I have had this transmitter for a while. I bought it with thoughts of being multiprotocol it would be handy. The other day I turned it on and it showed the USB sign. The transmitter is now unusable. It will not go into any other settings apart from a blank screen with red and green lights showing on the on off switch. Where do I go from here?

Still waiting on dealer for outcome

Does this mean spectrum gear getting a lot dearer? It's overpriced now. It will probably help Radio master sales . I can't see tariffs lasting long

This is what I use as well as about 50 fellow flyers at my club

I had just taken the battery off of the charger my battery checker said 98% the battery is a week old and on previous flights with this battery after an 8 minute flight it would still have 50% charge left. I have had at least 30 flights with this plane with no issues. Other batteries I have used show similar 50% charge left 8 minute flights. Funny how the crash occurred straight after updating. Also why would I get an alarm saying battery overcharged when I first connected the plane and the transmitter . Then after disconnecting then reconnecting no alarm sounded. It has been established that the transmitter was reading the battery type incorrectly I was using a 3 s where it was being read as a 4 s . Which would send wrong low charge setting alarms etc

If it was caused by alkaline battery bad contact failsafe should have been activated but it wasn't the case.

I did say 2200 3s battery reading 98% in the plane , the transmitter is fitted with alkalines reading 5.8v. As to what caused the shut off of connection to the plane is as yet to be determined. Having flown the plane for over thirty previous times without a problem. It is suspicious that this happened straight after the updating it but then again it could be just coincidental . The fact that failsafe did not activate and I was flying in safe mode which made no difference has me wondering about ESC or receiver in plane. I did check the battery connection at the crash site and it was plugged in. Wait and see!

I have taken the transmitter and plane into the dealer. He found some glitch in the telemetry where the transmitter was operating as though it was running on a four S battery. Instead of a three s battery which was fitted. This would affect the alarms etc The reading on transmitter of 11.7v on a 4s battery would be just about flat where as 11.7 v on a 3s battery is 65% . But still do not know why it totally shut down. The battery was nearly new with only a couple of flights I have had it operate the plane for eight minutes leaving 50% charge remaining. So I am confident it's not a battery problem. I did check that the battery connection on the plane hadn't become unplugged at the crash scene. Well now I have to wait until next week when a tech specialist will check it out.

My first flight after having my dx6 updated. I put a fully charged lipo 2200 3s battery charged to 98% into the plane. It started an alarm saying battery overcharged I knew this was not the case. I disconnected the battery and turned off my dx6, then turned on my dx6 and reconnected my battery. The alarm did not start so all good. I took off flew for about 6 minutes then suddenly lost all power. Then the plane nose dived into the ground from a height of about 60ft. I had no warning alarm at all the power had been shut off . Looking at the transmitter it had a notice on there saying battery too low for flight showing 11.7v . This is not right and power should not have turned off. Checking the battery on my battery tester 11.7v is 65% . I usually fly for 8 minutes and still have around 50% left in lipo. So it looks like a trip for me back to the dealer so much for the updated transmitter but what about my demolished $460 plane.

I have just set up my but Trojan with Safe and AS3X . When you start up with Safe select I get two series of beeps this is correct. But when I start up with AS3X I get two series of beeps as well , this is wrong I should only get one. It is clearly on AS3X when I turn the plane upside down the ailerons are not moving. Where as in Safe mode when turned upside down the ailerons move trying to correct itself.

Yes by dropping down to -100 has worked thank you for your input. Cheers Ned