Thread: I am completely baffled???????

Can anyone help as I am COMPLETELY BAFFLED by a problem I experienced today?!?!?!?!

Took the Trex 500 for a fly a few days ago and all was fine.

Went to fly today but when connecting the battery, the ESC would not arm - just a continuous beep-beep-beep-beep-beep (short beeps, short gap between beeps). It's the standard align ESC.

After much head scratching, I realised it was because the throttle/pitch trim was in the centre rather than all the way 'down'. This is odd because I did not change this! On further investigation, the swash type was set to 90 degrees, gyro was 0% and 100% and there were a few other oddities with the settings.

This was definitely not done by a human - it's only my wife and 3 year old who live with me and neither of them would have had any idea how to change these settings.

So I got everything back to how it should be (as far as I can remember), but now I've got an even stranger problem.... For my TREX 500, my DX6i is now mode 1?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

My mCPx flys absolutely fine with the same Tx - mode 2 as usual. But the 500 insists on being mode 1.

I've tried re-binding but no chanage.

I've tried using a new model memory slot and setting this up for the 500 but this still ends up being mode 1????

Viewing the 'monitor' screen shows the correct channels moving as you'd expect.

The fact that the Tx works fine with my mCPx but not the 500 seems to point to the heli as being at fault. However, seeing as a load of Tx settings changed on their own - this points to the Tx being at fault.

I'd better check what happens with the Blade 450 tomorrow if I get the chance.

Any ideas?? I'm really stuck on this one?? Maybe nano-bots have got into my Tx and Rx and are working together (obviously communicating with each other over 2.4GHz RF) to get me really confused.

Any help/advice very much appreciated!

Cheers,
Matt.

have you used the tx with phoenix on the 500 setting,this can mess things up

Get rid of it and get a DX8, My friends did this but was rather more costly

Granted he should of done a pre flight check which he normally does but the dx6i reversed his aileron.

Originally Posted by Mark_T

Send the radio back to HH for a check-up, I'm sure I've seen this reported with the DX6i before now.

That's probably what I'm going to have to do

Originally Posted by vinny155

have you used the tx with phoenix on the 500 setting,this can mess things up

I usually change Tx to my 'phoenix' memory slot before connecting to laptop but there's a chance I forgot. Even if this did mess up my 500 setting, it doesn't explain why setting up a new model memory slot still has the mode 1 issue?? Thanks for the suggestion tho.

Originally Posted by ghost2212

Get rid of it and get a DX8, My friends did this but was rather more costly. Granted he should of done a pre flight check which he normally does but the dx6i reversed his aileron.

Yeah maybe. I'm getting to the point now where I'd appreciate some of the nicer features of a better Tx...

Cheers,
Matt.

Originally Posted by matty-boy

That's probably what I'm going to have to do


I usually change Tx to my 'phoenix' memory slot before connecting to laptop but there's a chance I forgot. Even if this did mess up my 500 setting, it doesn't explain why setting up a new model memory slot still has the mode 1 issue?? Thanks for the suggestion tho.


Yeah maybe. I'm getting to the point now where I'd appreciate some of the nicer features of a better Tx...

Cheers,
Matt.

Both my friend and I switched from Dx6i's to DX8's with no regrets so far, The DX8 is a much nicer radio and the sticks/gimbals are nicer than the dx6i. I personally had no problems with my dx6i but felt the Dx8 was a worthwhile upgrade for the telemetry and DSMX to use with the AR7200Bx.

Maybe see if horizon will give you a deal or something in return for your dx6i

ok...Panic Over!
i'm ashamed to say... user error
When I was putting heat shrink on the servos, I had to take the connectors off. somehow, I must have switched connectors for Aileron and Pitch hence I plugged them in the wrong slots.
i can't believe that! So stupid! I'm never gonna work on my heli past 11pm!!!