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e-Century Hummingbird - Swift > swift lock-outs (crash)

rapper
Senior Heliman
Location: birmingham england

flying to-day swift flew very nice then had lock-out lasted about 2second's got it back ,then on the other battery had two other lock-out's then smash!!!!
the problem with the battery heli's you have to go pcm & rx must be as faraway as you can from speedcontroller!!!!
i think i'm going to go back to ppm rx & then fight threw the glitch!!!!!! if i ever have any more coz altering the electrics.

if you heli-guys could let me know some of your set-ups with out havin any problem's i would be happy!!!!!!!.

paultherapper

04-15-2006 Over year old.

SRH990
Key Veteran
Location: Birmingham, UK

Sorry to hear of your crash Paul, I've yet to have a single lock-out with PCM in the Swift yet and my placement is fairly ordinary apart from moving the speed controller to the back of the side frame. I guess a switch to PPM would certainly show if there were any glitches which might cause a lock-out, maybe one of the receivers with a built in glitch counter?

I used to have loads of glitches with the Trex outdoors, sometimes bad enough to turn it on its back, although I've since discovered that the Align ESC I was using is knackered

Anyway, see you tomorrow morning?

Steve -Trex 600, Swift, Raptor 550E, 450SE, Mini Titan, Hurricane 550, Logo 5003D

04-15-2006 Over year old.

coolice
Key Veteran
Location: Northamptonshire, England

Hi Paul,

I'm sorry to have heard this happen to you mate, this kind of thing is never good to hear.

I must admit I have been very lucky so far and not had any incidents of lockouts with the layout I have on my model.

Just as a matter of interest, your not using a seperate BEC unit to power the Rx and servo's are you? I trawled though our PM's but never found anything to show me your setup.

Hope you have the model up and running again as soon as possible.
.

Ian Contessa
UK Century Sponsored Flier
Why Go For The Spare, When You Can Go For The CENTURY!

04-15-2006 Over year old.

HOMEPAGE

Bill Ludwig
Veteran
Location: Tucson, AZ

I've never had a 'lockout' due to the layout. I'd be looking a lot more closely for a broken servo wire, broken antenna wire, loose servo plug, intermittent switch, bad receiver, etc. These items are especially suspect if you have had multiple crashes with the same electronics.

- Bill

04-15-2006 Over year old.

helibad
Senior Heliman
Location: Cameron Park, CA

Lockout

I expereinced a lockout due to a BEC. Now I run a seperate battery for the radio.

04-16-2006 Over year old.

HOMEPAGE

skypup
Senior Heliman
Location: San Antonio, Texas

I run an sbec for a dedicated bec and although I may be committing a sin I fly my electri helis with the JR spektrum radio. I only sport fly and have tested range to further than I care to fly without incident. Operating on 2.4 Ghz it is totally immune from rf problems.

I had a zoom 400 amd eco8 which started to glitch and after changing to spektrum rx.'s absolutely no problems.

SKYPUP

04-17-2006 Over year old.

kookboy
Key Veteran
Location: Vancouver, BC - up North

I'm running the XP6102DX.

JR6102 with the Spektrum DX6 module and antenna in it.

Glitch free in a glider at 1,000ft +, Raptor 30, Eflight P47, MX400, Trex's and the Swift.

Damn best $250 I ever spent.

I know proper esc/rec'v/bec placement/wiring really helps.

... But honey it was only $$$

04-17-2006 Over year old.

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