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Lost my Schmooze to exactly the same symptoms, and then my Fresca started
doing nasty tricks that I wasn't inputting so I quickly got the POJ out
of that airplane and put my Futaba in it instead. The unit was returned
to Horizon and they couldn't find any problems with the Tx, Rcvr, Switch,
Pak, or Servos. The ground range is over 400 feet with antenna collapsed,
but the failure occurs in the air at distances even less than this.On the
Schmooze the fail-safe was in default mode and it went into fail-safe just
as I input the commands for a snap. It screwed itself all the way into
the ground. In the Fresca, I began a 1/2 Cuban turnaround toward the end
of the box and when the airplane attained vertical attitude it stopped
the looping element and tried to continue vertically as I had changed the
FS programming settings to neutral deflection.
<br>If you think I have a lot of confidence in this system you should schedule
an appointment with your shrink.
<br>In my case, I can definitely "Feel the Difference", and it's not a
feeling that I enjoy, I don't care who has switched.
<br>Georgie
<p>Jerry Stebbins wrote:
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<font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Wade,might
try to contact Raiko Potter about his experiences. Lost two planes in a
row -same radio, and all checked ok-.His went to full throttle both times
-that was what his fail safe was set to. Don't know why but it was. Nothing
found on radio checks-different switches/wiring in the planes.</font></font><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Same
Xmitter/Rx.,after checks, in my backup plane at Pensacola went to fail
safe, but Lamar got him out of it by resetting in flight. Nothing found
wrong--But has not had further problems with a borrowed Xmitter. Nothing
found wrong with original Xmitter.</font></font><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Go
figure--</font></font><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Jerry</font></font>
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<a href="mailto:wbakle@charter.net" title="wbakle@charter.net">Wade Akle</a></div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:discussion@nsrca.org" title="discussion@nsrca.org">discussion@nsrca.org</a></div>
<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>
<font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Need some insight...</font></font><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>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></font><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Immediately
thought 'fail safe' which was set to idle and neutral controls.</font></font><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Battery
and switch checks did not show any obvious problem.</font></font><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Interference
is unlikely due to the long elapsed time w/o any response as well as a
subsequent Frequency sweep check which did not show any spurrious signals
on our frequencies.</font></font><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Transmitter
voltage well above 10.</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>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></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Wade</font></font></blockquote>
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