AR9000 binding issue (and workaround)

[lovetofly]

Not sure if anyone else has seen this, but I just got my X9303, and the first thing I tried to do was bind my "old" AR9000 to it. The AR9000 was previously bound to a DX7 and was working perfectly. So I did the normal binding procedure which seemed to work fine, but when I powered everything up again after binding, the AR9000 was all messed up with the channels mixed up and some not working. I re-bound it to the X9303 several times with the same results. To double check, I re-bound it to the DX7 and all worked fine. Then I again bound it to the X9303 and it was all messed up again. The R921 that came with the X9303 worked fine (and I didn't bind it to anything else).

I was about to ship the AR9000 back to Horizon when I thought to try binding it in smart safe mode instead of fail safe mode (where you pull the bind plug off after powering the receiver up). To my surprise, it bound correctly and worked perfectly after that. Then I was able to bind it in normal mode where you leave the bind plug on as well.

After this, I thought I'd see if I could reproduce the issue, and it is 100% reproducible. Bind to a DX7, then try to bind to an X9303 and it won't work unless you bind in smart safe mode first.

The Horizon tech said they had not heard of this before, but clearly there is an issue after being bound to a DX7. Looks like someone didn't do their backward compatibility testing very well...sure hope there aren't any other major bugs that were missed...

[bullaculla]

Nice find. I'll see if mine has the same issue when it gets here.

[lovetofly]

After binding back and fourth between the DX7 and X9303 a couple of times I found myself unable to bind to the X9303 again at all, in EITHER binding mode! Again, I thought I was going to have to send it to Horizon, but finally decided to try swapping the remote receiver. Whew! That worked and allowed me to bind it back to the X9303. I was also able to swap the remote receivers afterwards and bind successfully. Not sure what's going on here, but there are certainly some binding issues between DX7 and X9303.

Suffice it to say I won't be binding any of my AR9000/R921 receivers to my DX7 anymore!

[bullaculla]

Actually, I havent had any problems binding my X9303 with my AR7000 or my AR6100 yet. strange.

[lovetofly]

Actually, I havent had any problems binding my X9303 with my AR7000 or my AR6100 yet. strange.

Well, there shouldn't be any issues binding any of those receivers with any 2.4GHz spektrum transmitters...so the strange part is the problems I'm having! I haven't tried binding an AR7000 or AR6000 to my X9303 yet, but I'd be very surprised to see a problem there.