Failsafe problems

So ... more info

Transmitter and reciever type?

Upgraded or altered ANYTHING recently?

If its a Spectrum ...been playing with the settings it at all?

IF you have a Spektrum setup and have altered the transmitter settings..try rebinding.

(Message edited by woody on December 26, 2008)

No, Im on 40mhz. Sky Ranger 3, micro reciever. Not upgraded or altered anything, its just stopped working, literally its gone from working to not working without being touched.

well i have a solution buy a spektrum probably not what you want to hear, i dont know what else to suggest

do yuo use and other failsafes apart from the sabertooth ones?

No I dont use other failsafes. And I dont see why I need to buy a Spektrum just to solve this problem, I had the same set up, with the same components in my last featherweight and that ran and failsafed fine, and this one failsafed until 2 days ago...its just a mystery why its stopped.

yeh it is a radical solution which is not nessecary but it would solve it, have you checked the manual for your controller they usually have info on problems, or email the guys at dimension engineering???

alex

Ive checked an online manual....nothing in it...hence asking on here, lol.

OK, now one side failsafes but the other side twitches...wonder if its just picking up some rough static or something...Ill try it outside.

You might have tried it already, but it could be just simple things such as:

Loose ariel wire
Loose connectors
Charged the Transmitter/Receiver battery
Connected the right channels from the reciever
Matching crystals?
etc. etc.

The sabretooth on Ironside was on 40mhz originally and had the same problems with twitching - solved the problem by fitting a br6000 - sorry.

One other thing to bear in mind, 95% of your opponents will be on Spektrums and will not have radio suppression fitted, so your machine will be severely affected in combat.

Dave, have you got the auto calibrate on your sabretooth switched on?? If so turn it off, I have had similar problems with the 5 and 10Amp versions and this seemed to fix it.

Will