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<DIV><SPAN class=062432401-08092003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff>Hi
all,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062432401-08092003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#0000ff>Ok I have to wade in here too. Firstly my disclaimer...I in
no way wish to bash or praise brand X over brand Y. This has just been my
experience.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062432401-08092003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062432401-08092003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff>I
flew JR for many years. In Australia JR has enjoyed, and still enjoys the
largest market share ( by a long way) for as long as I
remember.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062432401-08092003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff>I
had three 10 series radios, starting with the very first one they came out
with.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062432401-08092003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff>I
had my first 'pattern' crash not long after. I swore on a stack of bibles that I
had "nothing", but I was prepared to accept that just maybe I had thumbed it in,
due to my inexperience at the time. Besides, everyone else reckoned it looked
like I thumbed it in.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062432401-08092003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062432401-08092003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#0000ff>So I built another model. This time ( and even now) I set my
failsafe to: full up elevator, idle, and gear up ( in those days when we
used retracts <BG>) I figured, I will know straight away if I hit
failsafe! I did this so as to prevent a 'fly away'. I guess you could call
it a controlled crash.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062432401-08092003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#0000ff>After six flights, I started to get failsafes and then again it
happened ...ka booooom. I knew I had not thumbed it this time.Time for a new
model.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062432401-08092003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff>I
wrote a nice letter to Mr JR and my radio went to Japan. While it was in Japan
for six weeks, I updated to a 10s series. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062432401-08092003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff>My
old radio returned and the only original parts left were the cases...servos too
were totally replaced. Wow I thought...That was
service!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062432401-08092003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff>New
model time ( months had gone by) and in went the 10s. I cant exactly recall how
soon it was and I got the dreaded failsafes again.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062432401-08092003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#0000ff>Bang...in went another model. I had scanners out there etc
etc..you get the idea. I sent the radio away...no fault found. Another model,
another radio....boom. You would think I would learn by
now!!!!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062432401-08092003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062432401-08092003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff>I
wrote an email to Tony Stillman who suggested I check the grounding on the case
of the Tx. Sure enough I did not have a circuit all the way around the case of
the Tx. It took me all of two minutes to fix it. New model and all was fine for
a while ( longer than any other time... a few months as I remember), then
glitches etc and then kaboooom. I checked the Tx myself straight away and sure
enough, no continuity around the case. I sent the radio away as it
was..twice..</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062432401-08092003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff>No
fault found. They were as helpful as I guess one could expect..but
crashing four pattern models was getting way too expensive! I never asked,
but I would have thought that after buying 3 ten radios from Mr JR..and having a
documented crash and service history..that they may have offered me a new
radio. But this was not the case. I don't know, but I suppose Horizon over your
way may have been more sympathetic?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062432401-08092003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#0000ff>Pete..I know your lurking out there. You were there for three of
those crashes.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062432401-08092003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062432401-08092003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff>So
I had the radio serviced by the JR people and sold it ( on the opposite side of
the country) Never heard how they got on!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062432401-08092003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062432401-08092003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff>I
changed to the Futaba WC..and the only problems I have had was 'battery
failsafe' when I used that Duralite junk...sorry..that just gets my blood
boiling.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062432401-08092003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff>Got
rid of those bats and never looked back as far as the radio is concerned ( I
just wished they would make a new one.. I have come across a few limitations
which I see as needing different electronics)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062432401-08092003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062432401-08092003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#0000ff>Anyway..cutting out my rambling, check the case for continuity and
then send it away and get it checked anyway.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062432401-08092003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062432401-08092003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff>For
me an ideal radio would be a Futaba built by JR and engine wise..a YS built
by OS!! <BG></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062432401-08092003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062432401-08092003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#0000ff>Good luck.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062432401-08092003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062432401-08092003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#0000ff>Tom</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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