Maxime30
Heliman
Location: Quebec City, Canada
| Hello,
First of all, I have two of these regulators, and never had any issues with 8717s, Duralite Li-Mn, in a R50 and R90.
However... a few weeks ago I set-up a R90 for a guy, and noticed his GY611 gyro was showing over 7 volts on its LCD display... Ended up being a defective Reactor X unit.
Last week, another friend bought this regulator, and it was DOA.
Yesterday, my other flying buddy's 30 flights old R90 started doing "glitching" in flight, and after landing the R921 rx lights were blinking, showing a power loss. (glitching was a servo jump when power was restored). We tested several things.... a new battery, a new receiver.... and finally crashed the R90 ( fairly minor damage to the airframe, however the Hatori SB-18FH muffler is busted!). Then we realized that if we would gently tap on the Reactor, the receiver would reset, showing that the ReactorX regulator is intermittent.
All three units came from the same LHS and were from the same batch (coming directly from SGP if I understood correctly).
So..... Anyone had problems with there ReactorX regulator? Is it just a bad batch? I don't want to discredit this product ( Again, I have 2 of them and I don't have problems with them), but if there's a bad batch better let everyone know and let SGP fix them before another crash occurs....
Max |
