I know there are a lot of people that like their Flysky radios, but I have purposefully stayed away from them. I have never likely the way the felt, it seemed if I squeezed to hard the radio casing would pop like a zit. Plus, I know a good number of people who swear by their FS's, but seem to be always cursing because their radio failed, again...
Getting more and more into 1/14 scale rigs, semi trucks and construction equipment, I have found myself needing a stick radio for various reason. Most of the stick radio options are meant for aircraft, and you have to detune the air functions out of it so that you can use it for a ground vehicle, which is a pain. I have seen a number of people in the semi/construction RC world use the FS-i6S radio. It has aircraft features, but it more or less works like one of our pistol radios. So, I bought one several months ago...
I have finally started using it, starting to program in some simpler rigs, and learn how to do some of the more advanced things, like mix channels for skid-steer vehicles, all is good. Until, I start fiddling with the two sliders it has, they act very weird, almost like 3-position switches with a tiny dead band. Of course I am thinking that I have a setting out of place, but there just are not that many to fiddle with, and nothing is obvious. The video below shows what is happening.
Part of performing radio troubleshooting is to reset the radio back to factory, and install the latest firmware, neither correct the problem. After a bit more digging I discover this issue is due to a bad board that the slider connect to; the radio is physically broken....
As stated, I bought this radio a while ago, so any warranty is long gone. I REALLY wanted to be proven wrong about Flysky quality with this radio, and admittedly this is one of the nicest looking and feeling stick radios I have had. But sadly, fluke or run of the mill, I received a bad radio.
What to do now? I have projects like my Tonka TRX4 that I want to retool, and get things working better, and this radio was at the heart of that. So, do I shell out another $75 and hope for better success, or just move on down the road...?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mFvV_BF3X8
Getting more and more into 1/14 scale rigs, semi trucks and construction equipment, I have found myself needing a stick radio for various reason. Most of the stick radio options are meant for aircraft, and you have to detune the air functions out of it so that you can use it for a ground vehicle, which is a pain. I have seen a number of people in the semi/construction RC world use the FS-i6S radio. It has aircraft features, but it more or less works like one of our pistol radios. So, I bought one several months ago...
I have finally started using it, starting to program in some simpler rigs, and learn how to do some of the more advanced things, like mix channels for skid-steer vehicles, all is good. Until, I start fiddling with the two sliders it has, they act very weird, almost like 3-position switches with a tiny dead band. Of course I am thinking that I have a setting out of place, but there just are not that many to fiddle with, and nothing is obvious. The video below shows what is happening.
Part of performing radio troubleshooting is to reset the radio back to factory, and install the latest firmware, neither correct the problem. After a bit more digging I discover this issue is due to a bad board that the slider connect to; the radio is physically broken....
As stated, I bought this radio a while ago, so any warranty is long gone. I REALLY wanted to be proven wrong about Flysky quality with this radio, and admittedly this is one of the nicest looking and feeling stick radios I have had. But sadly, fluke or run of the mill, I received a bad radio.
What to do now? I have projects like my Tonka TRX4 that I want to retool, and get things working better, and this radio was at the heart of that. So, do I shell out another $75 and hope for better success, or just move on down the road...?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mFvV_BF3X8
