transmitter
Upgrades
Spektrum DX8
He He everyone loves upgrades. Today I went out to test my new Naza GPS and 4S batteries, which meant I changed from 10 inch props to 8 inch props. I got to the garage and plugged the battery in and went to to the transmitter on and it just beeped at me “ERR”, not what I was expecting. This has happened a couple of times now and I have to change all the settings in the transmitter. Most of the setting are done on the PC through the DJI Naza Assistant, and you forget about the few, but very important settings that must be changed on the transmitter in order for it to work. I read the manual and they have talked about a button battery being embedded deep in the guts of the transmitter, so I thought about pulling it apart, and then I thought even if I do find and get this battery out, the provability of finding one of these batteries today … Not likely. So I went option B … A new transmitter, a Spektrum DX8, it’s pretty mad and works well with the quad. So now I have a spare transmitter (that I can take my time with to repair it) which I will be using for my white prop plane and my electric jet (which still hasn’t had a successful maiden voyage yet).
Flamewheel 450 with GPS
Burning Out Batteries
different connection
This connector is normal on all batteries.
smokey bussiness
It's working.
Yesterday I decided to re-wire my Futaba transmitter so I could put another battery inside. For some unknown reason the connectors for the old battery were different to every other battery. This operation required soldering. Now soldering isn’t one of my favourite jobs and I did manage to mess this up. The de-soldering was easy enough and what I thought putting two new wires through would be just as easy. I did a neat job of the soldering … but a couple of threads of wire, off each wire didn’t go through. Once the battery was plugged in my transmitter started to smoke straight away. The battery pack got very hot, started melting the plastic around the wires and the batteries started swelling up. Luckily I could still unplug the the battery pack and threw it onto the middle of the lawn. I have heard of battery packs exploding so I didn’t go near the pack until today. Over night it didn’t explode and nothing else seemed to happen so I was very lucky. Today I wanted to find out if I had only fried the battery pack and not the transmitter, so i managed to remove the connector off the newer battery and got it onto the old battery (which does work, but doesn’t hold a good charge). Plugged it in and “presto” it worked, I am wrapped,that’s one less thing I have to re-purchase.