dx6 won't bind orange light is out

[JonJet]

Originally Posted by Nelsonhelijunky

This now has me worried. Guess I need to start looking for a backup.

Sheesh NOW you tell Me...

After I just sold 3 DX6i's !!

Shame Shame Shame on You !

[Nelsonhelijunky]

Originally Posted by JonJet

Sheesh NOW you tell Me...

After I just sold 3 DX6i's !!

Shame Shame Shame on You !

Oh, no!

[NewToRC]

Update:
Got my DX6 back a few days ago from Horizon. All I can say is that I couldn't be happier with their customer service! They replaced the Rf transmitter and updated the software. The tech gave me a call to explain what was wrong, how it may have happened and chatted for a while. I was out of warranty by about two months but they took care of everything free of charge. All I paid for was shipping the DX6 to Horizon. Got a chance to sneak a quick flight in between all the rain today and it's working perfectly. 👍🏻

[stevehastings]

Brand new out of the box and cabbage, not good.

[aerocal]

Originally Posted by stevehastings

Brand new out of the box and cabbage, not good.

You would prefer Spinach or Broccoli?

[Newdon]

Originally Posted by NewToRC

Update:
The tech gave me a call to explain what was wrong, how it may have happened

Thanks for the update. Could you let us know what the tech. said re: the possible cause of the failure. Anything us fellow DX6 owners can do / not do to avoid the problem?

[Newdon]

Bump

[NewToRC]

Originally Posted by Newdon

Thanks for the update. Could you let us know what the tech. said re: the possible cause of the failure. Anything us fellow DX6 owners can do / not do to avoid the problem?

The tech said the main reason for the RF going out is low battery, especially keeping it turned on accidentally overnight. My battery was never low so he guessed it was possible that one of my batteries came loose in the battery holder. (Using alkaline batteries)

My guess is it is like any other electrical part, it quits when it quits. Luckily it didn't die while flying. Tech did state it rarely ever dies when bound to a model. Wish I could tell you more but that's all I know...

[Newdon]

Thanks for letting us know the suspected cause. Sounds like HH is not all that sure themselves; as you know, the TX will warn you of low batteries and if you have voice alerts turned on it will also state 'system idle' if it has left on accidentally so their explanation is a bit weak. Your guess is probably as good as theirs.

I upgraded to the LiPo battery pack and so far so good.

[berley114]

Hi all,
i bought my Dx6 G2 in February this year, this was to use mainly for the Accurc or neXt heli sims.
I also bought the RX2SIM wireless adaptor of which i connected a DSMX Satellite mainly to use with neXt Heli.

This set up after binding worked perfectly with my DX9 but, i have since tried to bind the DX6 to the sat / adaptor and its a no go, no orange light & bind failed.
I have since updated the firmware on the RX2SIM adaptor & tried binding at different distances but still a bind failed.
Sounds like i could have a similar problem with the Dx6 RF Module?
any ideas appreciated thanks...

[toadiscoil]

Rats! It happened to me yesterday. I totaled my 360 CFX so I moved the motor pinion away from the gear to discharge the batteries to storage levels. While I was doing this the DX6 started saying "Transmitter low battery". When I got to it the voice was starting to distort already. Turned off and next time it would not bind. I tried to rebind no luck. Then I noticed my orange LED was off. I came into Helifreak and found the answer. DX6 packed and today a call to HH.

[Xypheron]

A word of warning, this happened to me too. I left the transmitter on overnight and it died. When I powered up with new batteries, the orange light did not come on.

I purchased it a few months ago so will send it in for warranty repair, but it is somewhat disappointing that there is no protection from failure for this (disregarding my own human error).

[DoubleCH]

IMO, they should redesign and recall the RF modules. Just did a search of "RF module failure" on HF here and this is not the only thread I find this issue. Sure it's user error to forget to turn off the radio and drain the battery but it should not result in burning up the RF module. On my DX-8 I power it with HobbyKing Turnigy 2S 4000mAh Lipo with internal protection circuitry that'll open circuit on over-current, over-voltage, and I believe also over-discharge and luckily I haven't had a battery drain incident for the 3 years I've owned my radio [knock on wood]. But, lately I have heard at least 5 cases at my flying field of the exact RF module failure from a few different buddies with different radios ranging from the DX6, DX7s, DX9, etc. most possibly resulting from forgetting to turn off the radio. We are in Canada which means shipping the radio to Horizon for repair is ridiculously expensive. And then in at least one case the owner fears that the cosmetic damage on his radio from normal wear-and-tear over time may result in Horizon denying this faulty design result so the owner doesn't even want to send in for repair.

Now with this faulty design in mind, I'm seriously thinking to transition to Taranis (which is a much better radio anyways) and possibly just get the Spektrum module for the transition period. I know some of my buddies who suffer from this problem are seriously thinking to switch to Taranis. I know for sure I won't upgrade to another Spektrum radio in the future if they don't redesign the RF module.