DX6I product bulletin

[freakyreef]

I tried to post this in the main blade section, but, I don't have access to post there??

Appears as though there are a few problems with the DX6I. Faulty pots on the gimbals.
http://http://www.spektrumrc.com/Articles/Article.aspx?ArticleID=1885

I have a video of what the faulty ones look like in the monitor screen. Needless to say, this caused a few problems trying to determine the glitching I was having. Also contributed to a crash on my Blade 400.
Watch the throttle monitor slider.

[jairoblaster]

holy cow man that dont look good at all. Did horizion take care of the problem and supply parts to fix the blade 400? if not the definately should

[freakyreef]

I contacted Horizon last night, they are sending me a shipping label to return the transmitter. I didn't even bother with trying to collect crash costs. It could have been much worse, basically while doing tic-tocs I experienced some glitches, next thing I knew the heli was doing continuous flips. Not much to do, so I let it continue flipping as each one got closer to the ground. I hit throttle hold and it dropped from about 4 foot onto it's skids.(Couldn't do that again if I tried) The only thing it broke was the skids and stripped the cyclic servos. I had been planning on upgrading servos anyways. I can't say for SURE exactly what happened, but upon inspection, I was getting the glitches. I didn't figure it out until I read the service bulletin, checked the transmitter and BINGO.

I tested it on my cx2 and it spun up quickly. Since I was expecting it, it was no big deal, but if I hadn't been expecting it, or if it had been a larger heli that spun up unexpectedly it could have wreaked havoc.

[ericb]

That is wierd.