The first arm broke after I missed an outdoor table thats only 300mm high onto the deck, SNAP went one of the red arms. The next one was when I hit a pole and the fall was admittedly a little higher 500mm, SNAP ..... grrrrr
Then things started to go weird.
I noticed that the transmitter and receiver sometimes took a little bit of fiddling to bind, I just though it was the power cycle on the receiver as I changed batteries. I didn't think much of it.
So I was out flying the Quad and something gliched, and it did a complete nosedived. WTF......
I knew it wasn't me... as I know when its me that causes the crashes as I have plenty of experience :)
This resulted in another arm broken in three places, broken props ... and due to the crash and the bullet connectors no popping a motor was also wreaked and it broke an internal wire. Grrrr
But that was the most annoying part of the weekend.
The crash appears to be due to the fact that the Orange DRX DSM module has malfunctioned. I am not able to get it to bind to any of the three orange receivers I have. It powers on and I can put it into bind mode ... but cant bind to any receivers Even a brand new one, to eliminate the possiabity of damage due to the crash.
So not sure whats gone wrong with it ... I have checked the forums and have not found much information any fixes. But on the HK website in the discussion area there are many reports of DOA units, but not of it working for a couple of weeks then failing. But after ready the threads Im very reluctant to order another one.
So I had to revert back to the 9XV8 module and receiver. Thats when i found out I had also stuffed a motor in the crash.
Displeased I was !! (Said with a Yoda voice)
Overall the weekend was expensive ..... 3 x 330 arms, a motor and a OrangeDSM module.
I was lucky to have the spare parts to enable me to patch / repair and get back flying.
UPDATE :
After looking at my options I decided to get a Orange TX as I have 4 receivers and dont trust the module. This will give me two transmitters. I can use the OrangeTX for the parkfly stuff and I can build out the TX9 with a FrSky module for long range stuff when I get to that level of experience.