[Joe Lachowski]

I once had a regulator with a similar problem. Turned out to be the wire 
plug interface. Bet if you pulled on the wires, one will come out of one of 
the pins on the plug.


>From: "Tony Stillman" <tony at radiosouthrc.com>
>Reply-To: discussion at nsrca.org
>To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
>Subject: Re: Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 11:28:43 -0600
>
>Wayne:
>
>I have not heard of a problem like this with anyone's regulator!  There 
>were
>a few failures of the Oddino unit, but it would just not turn on.  I don't
>know of any that failed in the air.
>
>Tony Stillman
>Radio South, Inc.
>3702 N. Pace Blvd.
>Pensacola, Fl 32505
>www.radiosouthrc.com
>800-962-7802
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "wgalligan" <wgalligan at cnbcom.net>
>To: <discussion at nsrca.orgdiscussion@nsrca.org>
>Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 10:06 AM
>
>
> > I had an unfourtunate mishap yesterday and lost my Prophecy.  Come to 
>find
>my redundant or failsafe switch failed on me.  I was using a MCI Miracle
>swith that has a regulator on it and has mechanical fail safe if switch
>breaks down the system is on till the battery is unplugged. I found out 
>when
>testing the battery to make sure I had juice.   Through the battery lead I
>had 6.5v and at the charge plug I had 6.5 but when tested through the
>receiver end of the switch I had only 4.2v.  Below the recivers voltage
>threshold.  Went into pcm lock up and throttled down and into a slow spiral
>death.  At least the throttle came down by pcm failsafe.  SO it appears the
>regulator side of this switch went bad.  SO Much for failsafe.  Has anyone
>heard of such failure on these types of switches?  And is it really
>neccesary to voltage regulate a 6volt system.  I know when peak charged the
>pack is at 7 volts on an expanded meter.   I have recently gone to 1500mil 
>4
>cell pack on my new plane to eliminate the regulator part.
> >
> > Wayne
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