Well I received the tx back from J Perkins, the UK distributor for Hitec, and they couldn't find anything mechanically wrong with the J3 gimbal, and they said it must be a programming fault.
Well I spent hours on it last night trying to sort it out. I even reset the settings on one model and began programming it from scratch. All was fine until I got to setting up CROW, and that is where the fault still lies.
When I sat down afterwards and thought about it, the fault seemed to occur after I had done a firmware update on the TX, so to my way of thinking, this is not a programming issue, but a software issue.
I've sent off another email to J Perkins but I don't think they will be able to help. In the meantime, next week I will try performing another firmware update to see if that resolves the problem, and if it doesn't, I have downloaded instructions on how to perform a factory reset.
So this evening I am going to set up the Thermal Instinct on my old Eclipse 7 Pro. This will mean the motor will be straight into full throttle when I hit the switch, so I'm going to have to keep a very close eye on that first launch to kill the motor immediately should the plane decide to do something silly, like a big loop and end up in a crumpled heap behind me.
Happy flying
Steve
Or hit you on the back of the head 😆
ReplyDeleteDefinitely need to get this maiden on film.