Futaba R319DPS failure

[uluaz]

My Futaba R319DPS syntesized reciever took a dump today for no apparent reason. It flew fine last week and today I go and try to turn it on there is no response. 611 gyro just keeps saying "hello" and governor light just flashes. Battery is good. Start messing with the dials on the reciever and finally find out that it responds to certain frequencies. Only resonds to frequencies in the 40's and get this. If i leave the transmtter on channel 40, verified by using a frequency checker. The receiver responds to channel 40 thru 49 even though the tranmitter is still on channel 40. No I am debating if it is even cost effective to send it in to hobby services for reapir. Has anyone experienced similar problems with this reciever before?

[Trooper Sam]

I haven't heard of it, but with the recent excellent service I just received from Hobby Services, I can say with confidence that it's worth calling them to find out.

[rajeev]

Samething happened to three of my brand new Rx. Flew with them on a Sunday and the following Sunday they refused to work. Changed the crystals but still no luck.

Any ideas what could have gone wrong.

Thanks, Rajeev

[Nasscar]

I have to chime in on this one.

I had one fail at the bench "lucky me" but it was one that I bought off of a friend. I sent it in to Model Services and was informed of a known issue with how these where produced.

In other words. . . poor production . . . they just took a sodering ion and went over all of the soder points. . . .

go figure. .

Note: after receiving my repaired sync rx. I used this it in several "really" models "all helis" without any "and that's with a 14mz" problems.


Hope this helps,


Nas,

[uluaz]

I did send it back to Hobby Services for repair. It cost me $44 to have it repaired. They also installed a new antenna at my request. Pretty decent price to repair it considering the price of a new one.

[uluaz]

Just today at the flying flield, a fellow pilot also encountered a non responsive heli. Only problem was it was it happened when he was flying. Luckily he was close to the ground and the heli was stuck a little above idle with the blades spinning. It was on a Raptor 60. The pilot ended up reaching under the spinning blades and pulling the fuel line off the carb. On the post fligh inspection, we found the receiver to be non responsive. We thought it was the "switch" at first but after bypassing it the problem still happened. The reciever was a R319DPS.