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<p>Curtis, <br>
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<p>what voltage is you bec set for ?</p>
<p>not sure about what you were seeing, if the GPS was sending from
plane and Vario sending descending tone, sound like a brown out
and not enough power for servos.</p>
<p>most rx these day's work down to 1 cell voltage.</p>
<p>bob<br>
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On Jul 8, 2021, at 08:19, Robert Blumer via MT-ALES
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<p>Curtis,</p>
<p>What ESC are you using in the plane?</p>
<p>bob<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Don’t be me! @$*%)#<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am so addicted to this Triangle
Racing. I haven’t practiced anything so devotedly in
years.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yesterday morning I’m out all by
myself and am flying/practicing and having a great time
in marginal conditions. A bit of overcast and a cool
morning. I launched and flew a few laps and decided to
go up for a second attempt. I always get two launches
in F5J per battery charge. Our field is along a road
with some power lines along it. We’ve had a few planes
tangle with them and it all cases the woodies survive
but the carbon planes, well not so much. I get a couple
laps in then am down to about 50-75m and am circling in
what I think may be lift on the wrong side of the power
lines. I’m listening to the GPS Vario and notice, that
when I try to turn the model it doesn’t respond!
Yikes! I look at the transmitter and all is good but
still no response. The vario is still beeping away.
She’s just in a nice shallow turn and descending
slowly. I’m about 300m down range so start running,
holding the transmitter up over my head and nothing. I
turned the transmitter off and back on with no
response. The model is nice and happy going round and
round with just a slight pitch phugoid going on. I jump
the first water line and keep running. The model is now
about over the power lines and much lower and I say to
myself please oh please don’t hit them. It makes it
over them and now she’s back over the main field. Now
it’s much lower and over the second set of water lines
and I’m like please don’t hit the water line, just land
in the nice alfalfa and she’ll be okay. She goes over
the line in a slight 20-30 degree bank, pitches up and
has a slight stall and as the nose drops the wings level
and she lands slightly nose down in the alfalfa in
perfect condition! Whew! Now that wasn’t fun at all,
but it was like winning the lottery. I opened the hatch
and the RC Electronics RC Multi 3 device display was lit
up and working. The receiver had no lights nor did the
Sparrow GPS unit. I cycled the battery and no change.
So I walk back to the pickup truck and put a meter on
the battery and the three cells read 3.05v, 2.80v and
2.99v. Yikes! Put in another battery and I flew some
more triangles. What a day! Best I could do was 2
Triangles all morning, but the model is luckily still in
one piece. That I call a great day!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Curtis<o:p></o:p></p>
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