What have I connected wrong? Flashing red light...

[JAG1]

Hi,not sure if you can tell from photos,but I'm only getting a flashing red light and no power to servos! Think I've made a silly mistake???

cheers

[Granpappy]

The one thing I did notice is that your Transmitter is listed as a Futaba 8FG which is S-FHSS but your receiver is a FASST receiver. Those two won't work together.

[JAG1]

I have a futaba 8fg Fasst,I will change that mate

[Granpappy]

I have a futaba 8fg Fasst,I will change that mate

My mistake. Sorry. I was thinking of a T8J. The only thing I can think of is that my power supply goes directly to the FBL controller. The receiver gets power through the S-Bus connector. But that is on a GPRO. Could be totally different on a Spartan.

[DaveG]

have you bound the Rx to the Tx prior to installation?

have you set the vortex to use sbus in the setup menu?

[myxiplx]

Flashing red light is what you typically see while it's waiting for a signal from the TX, as mentioned by Dave have you gone through the Spartan setup and told it what kind of receiver you're using and bound the receiver to your TX?

Whenever I'm setting up a vortex I like to use the PC software, the setup menu walks you through and makes it really easy. With your unit you would need to connect the DataPod to the Vortex, and then a USB cable to the Datapod. Once you've done that you should be able to just launch the software and follow the setup steps to get everything configured.

[gazmk2]

Bert K did a brilliant series on YouTube through the complete setup on a vx1n, might be worth a look to see if you've missed something.

[Mike Sanders]

I found the Bert K videos absolutely invaluable. I just watched them and did exactly as he did. That way even I could set up the Vortex. It made it, for me, very much easier than the 3GX which was a sort of combination of black magic and guesswork.

[tomatwalden]

Any reason why you've not plugged the tail servo in?

I have a sneaking suspicion, the vortex may not init the servos if one is missing ...

[waveydavey]

No it will initialise, if you're going through the initial setup you don't plug the servos in until you've set their type. Something to do with the Rx type is my bet

[JAG1]

No it will initialise, if you're going through the initial setup you don't plug the servos in until you've set their type. Something to do with the Rx type is my bet

Completely my fault!!! DOH!! Didn't tell it RX type! You may abuse me now people....

[myxiplx]

Any reason why you've not plugged the tail servo in?

I have a sneaking suspicion, the vortex may not init the servos if one is missing ...

Nope, best practice is not to plug tail servos in until you've told the FBL system what type they are. There are a lot of different settings for tail servos, and there are plenty of people who have fried servos by plugging them in before checking the settings on their system.

[Andy Mc]

Nope, best practice is not to plug tail servos in until you've told the FBL system what type they are. There are a lot of different settings for tail servos, and there are plenty of people who have fried servos by plugging them in before checking the settings on their system.

yip agreed, changed from digital to analogue on one of my helis for cyclics, forgot to tell v-stabi that the servos had changed to analogues, things went bezerk and within a few seconds were almost too hot to even touch. wont forget that one again!