ouch!I'll never trust plastic geared servos again in anything expensive or fast, I have a bad habit or striping the aileron servo gear's with them. View attachment 185125
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good pointOne thing I have learned it is so much nicer if you crash to where it is beyond repair saves a lot of headaches, and space as you set it on the side for repair work.
All what? You'd need a lot of planes to wreck them every way shown here on just your first time out.I’d like some input here, how likely is it for all this to happen on a maiden flight?
I would be kinda miffed if all this happened on my first time out...
Things like loss of signal are fairly uncommon if you set up your gear correctly. The other stuff like getting a tree in the wing and hitting a tree are also uncommon, but only as long as you fly in the right area, far from trees and with a clear landing area. The most common thing that goes wrong for me is bad plane design (my fault if it is my own design) and incorrect balance (also my fault). If everything is set up right and you know how to fly you should be good to go. If you don't know how to fly, however, you may crash a couple times. Don't give up though, we all crash and after some practice you will be able to fly properly. I would also like to add in that a lot of these things are really weird and most likely will not happen to you for a long time. I don't think that any of these things have happened to me in 4 years of flying (that isn't very long but if it didn't happen in that time it is probably pretty rare).I’d like some input here, how likely is it for all this to happen on a maiden flight?
I would be kinda miffed if all this happened on my first time out...
PsyBorg you are just that good you know you did that on purpose so as not have to replace arms or anything else. Just admit it you are that good quit being modest.
lolWhen my son and I added Formula 1(200mph) in addition to Q500(135mph) racing, I decided to do a team approach so we dressed alike and had the same color pattern for our Formula 1 birds. Being on 72 megs, we both had orange freq so we could not race each other. So he was my caller for laps and I vice vera.(no way I could beat him even being 11years old)
At a meet on an Air Force base, we were rushed to prepare for next round of flights, so we hurried out carry the equipment to the line just in time for him to get set, fly. I released the plane and I could see he was upset as it started a slow right roll. He regained and did his 10 laps(he still won the heat).
Next heat, my turn to fly, he releases the plane and I get airborn and start rolling fast (we are facing the duty runway) so aileron stick full over, plane now is going straight ahead closing the distance to the active runway. No choice, stuff the plane. It hit the ground and destroyed itself.
The CD was very upset and so were we.
Long story short-- How did it happen? Dressing and having identical planes, not recommended. What happen was(being in a rush and having the same frequency) I grabbed my plane and my son flew it were the trims were only slightly off, so he had good control to offset the slow roll.
DuH!!!!!!! I grabbed his plane with my transmitter-same frequency, where the trims were totally different and when it got into the air, it was rolling out of control and applying full aileron stopped it. Moving now at about 280 ft/sec, no choice, stuff it.
You can bet, that my backup planes were painted before the next meet.
I have ordered parts for this mosfet switch which fails to the on position, a simple but elegant design, and very cheap to build and it will handle up to 250 amps if by chance a servo jams.
The vibration from gas and glow engines are hard on mechanical switches.
Ummm the control gate fails "on" not the base junctions. On elcheapo knock offs I have failures where the chip wasn't capable of running more than 1 amp and one failure were the silicon came loose from the die. Not sure if I want a failure on my power switches to turn on electronics un-commanded. Definitely dont want this as a controller in the Ranger with brushed DC.
I think the best solution is build your own switch harness from known good tested switches preferably 4pst or 4pdt.