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A drawback to the idea of using Smart batteries is their availability in an appropriate size. Just went on Ebay and bought a Typhoon H battery adapter. Then went shopping for Spectrum Smart batteries and found that the closest available size in 4s was 5000 MAh. Larger capacity Spectrum...

The Q500 and Typhoon H battery adapters sold on ebay look like they would do the job. Thanks. I did not see one for my Chroma. May have to improvise one for that.

Having crashed a lot of model airplanes by flying very old batteries that "seem" OK, I am switching over to Spectrum Smart batteries that log events and self-discharge to storage levels if not used within a day or so. The fact that I have been lucky flying my Yuneec camera drones with old...

A follow-on finding would be that Cramolin B5 PreservIT dissolved the adhesive. CRC QD did not bother the adhesive. That finding is based on spraying one stick with only CRC QD after spraying the other stick with Cramolin and CRC QD.

After successfully cleaning my ST16 stick gimbals of my Typhoon H, I hardware checked the ST10+ of my Q5004K and found J2 was not returning to center by various amounts ranging from 2 to 6%. That type of behavior grounded my Typhoon H until I cleaned its ST16, so I popped open the ST10+ to clean...

I figured that was why I got the 5 Rotor Warning. At this point, cleaning the stick potentiometers has solved my takeoff problems. I ran a number of calibrations during troubleshooting and was not pleased that gimbal calibrations left my camera tilted slightly down instead of horizontal. This...

There is a notice in the manual on the LED STATUS INDICATIONS page that reads: White blink between solid flight mode indicat4es enough satellites for Watch Me/Follow Me. I was dumbly confusing this white blink every 3 seconds with the 3 times per second blinking Green or Purple light indicating...

Posted this on conversation with DoomMeister today: "It looks there will be plenty of opportunity get the two threads linked because my Typhoon's problems may not be resolved. Was going to drive to my flying club airfield this morning but decided to again open ST16 and clean J3 and J4 as well...

It looks there will be plenty of opportunity get the two threads linked because my Typhoon's problems may not be resolved. Was going to drive to my flying club airfield this morning but decided to again open ST16 and clean J3 and J4 as well as their large connector to circuit board. That went...

As you can see, I am still getting the hang of a lot of things including how to effectively navigate this forum. Thanks to Vaklin for finding that my posted link to the other conversation thread does not work. Good news now would be that I can now help another club member whose Typhoon refuses...

Am happy to report that I finally got my Typhoon H motors to throttle up after motor start. My problem was a dirty throttle potentiometer in my ST16. It was out of spec and failed hardware and calibration tests until I cleaned it along with its cable connections. Many thanks to DoomMeister...

Watched Steve Carr video and pulled my ST16 off of charge to run the calibration test. J1 failed. All other sticks, switches, buttons and sliders passed. Hardware monitor shows J1 settles slowly back to null point while other sticks snap back to null points. It looks Like my ST16 has a bad...

ST16 is recharging now. Thank you for the link to Steve Carr's ST16 calibration You Tube video. Will get a look at it and run the calibration by tomorrow.

Thank you for clarifying that I need to tap on Volts icon. CH01 reads 50% at null position of J1. In Rabbit, CH01 reads 72% at full up and 25% full down of J1. Depressing B1 causes CH01 to read -25% with J1 in null position. In Turtle, CH01 reads 66% full up and 25% full down of J1. These...

Turning on ST16 and tapping upper left corner of screen results in a blank screen except for an SD card icon in the upper right corner of the screen with "N/A" to its right. This is intriguing because I can see an SD card in its slot on the bottom of the transmitter. What does this mean?