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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Lance, if the switch fails there is no power to the
receiver. How can it go to fail safe?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wade</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=patterndude@comcast.net href="mailto:patterndude@comcast.net">Lance
Van Nostrand</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, September 07, 2003 8:17
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Fail Safe</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It's painful to hear your story. Happened
to me before too. I lost a plane due to a switch that appeared fine on
the ground but didn't have enough "clickage" to maintain it in flight.
Another due to a broken wire inside the insulation. With the system on,
Roll the wires between your fingers and look for a defective wire in the power
path.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sorry,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>--Lance</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=wbakle@charter.net href="mailto:wbakle@charter.net">Wade Akle</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=discussion@nsrca.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, September 07, 2003 7:26
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Fail Safe</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Need some insight...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Using a JR10 radio and PCM receiver. Plane in a
vertical climb at full power. Lost power pretty high in the sky, plane did a
tail slide and flipped to a straight down line. No response. Noticed that
the engine was not stopped but idling. It took between 6-10 sec of a
straight down line until it disintegrated on the runway.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Immediately thought 'fail safe' which was set
to idle and neutral controls. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Battery and switch checks did not show any
obvious problem. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Interference is unlikely due to the long
elapsed time w/o any response as well as a subsequent <FONT face=Arial
size=2>Frequency sweep check which did not show any spurrious signals on our
frequencies.</FONT> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Transmitter voltage well above 10.
</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any ideas on how to isolate the cause? or just
junk the receiver and even the transmitter as our previous experience with
repairs on intermittent problems are not encouraging.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Wade</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>