Brownout?

[dwelzel]

While flying this morning I started a series of tic tocs. Now, I'm not great at tic tocs.. don't have great collective management (but I'm getting better!), so I was probably taxing the heli pretty hard.

Suddenly it banks to one side and starts to fall. At first I thought a link had popped (had that happen before so I unfortunately know what that looks like), but then it recovered and was flying fine.

I brought it back, did a look over and everything was fine. I flew a few more batteries and called it a day.

I've never experienced a brownout before, but this seems like one.. and the conditions were perfect for it. Thoughts?

[Spunjah413]

What FBL Unit? An AR7200 or BX usually hard resets after a brownout. Seeing as you were able to recover almost instantly, i doubt that was the case.

[dwelzel]

Originally Posted by Spunjah413

What FBL Unit? An AR7200 or BX usually hard resets after a brownout. Seeing as you were able to recover almost instantly, i doubt that was the case.

ikon..

[dribbe]

Originally Posted by Spunjah413

What FBL Unit? An AR7200 or BX usually hard resets after a brownout. Seeing as you were able to recover almost instantly, i doubt that was the case.

This is pretty accurate FWIW....
Have never run or tested an Ikon...

David

[dwelzel]

Originally Posted by dribbe

This is pretty accurate FWIW....
Have never run or tested an Ikon...

David

Hmm.. maybe there was a communication drop between the tx and sats... the heli wasn't exactly close at the time.

[FailureToFly]

I have never had a BX reboot after a brown out.

I have recreated brown outs on a few different BECs (four in fact - 3 different types of BECs) and heli setups and the BX never reboots; it just freezes the servos (for up to 6 seconds) and continues as if nothing happened with no blinking lights.

What happened to the OP fits what I have personally found.

[Spunjah413]

I have browned out my BX 3 times. One was a failed servo. It would reset BX whenever it was plugged in. Hitec told me bad servo board grounding out.

The second and 3rd time i was in step L and trying to get it to brown out my moving my cyclic to max throws very very fast. BX totally rebooted, with blinking light sequence and servo movement as with initial arming.