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  • He Who Shall Not Be Named
    Moderator

    • Aug 2008
    • 13404

    #16
    Kevin's right, the 'new' move by the receiver manufacturers to provide fail-safe points to all or some of the receiver channels can fox you if you are unaware of them.

    However, once you learn how to reset the receivers fail-safe to a 'blow' command or to disable the function on loss-of-signal, then your back in the game: your ballast sub-system will kick in on loss-of-signal to blow the tank, bringing your expensive submarine back to the surface.

    For years I could not get my WFly receivers to work with the ADF or any other discrete fail-safe circuit to blow the ballast tank on loss-of-signal. It took Tom to inform me of the cause and how to program the receivers fail-safe functions.

    As Kevin say's, the receiver default (and set-able) fail-safe points represents a new (and much appreciated) feature of today's receivers.

    David
    Who is John Galt?

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    • KevinMc
      Commander
      • Feb 2009
      • 305

      #17
      ...And that ladies and gentlemen is what makes this hobby so interesting. Just a couple of years ago receivers with built in failsafe settings were "evil" because they "got in the way" of how we want to run things. Personally I still see them that way, but I acknowledge that not everyone does. I don't like the fact that they trip as quickly as they do, and because you can't turn the built-in failsafe off they really hamper my ability to cause other things to happen when the signal is lost, but that's my pain as an equipment designer.

      As David points out, we all need to be aware of what these devices are doing and how best to cope with their "features".
      Kevin McLeod - Oscar II driver
      KMc Designs

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      • HardRock
        Vice Admiral
        • Mar 2013
        • 1609

        #18
        The problem with my receiver was that it had a failsafe that wasn't disclosed in any of the documentation and for which there was no (apparent) switch off feature. Incidentally, I am told that Sombra has stopped making receivers. True?

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        • He Who Shall Not Be Named
          Moderator

          • Aug 2008
          • 13404

          #19
          Unfortunately that's true. Sombra Labs no longer offers receivers in the bands we need here in the States. Just not enough sales to justify production it seems. I think they still produce goods for use on the 2.4gHz band though. Excellent, excellent product and they will be missed in these circles.

          M
          Who is John Galt?

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