[SOLVED] Failsafe with Spirit, Jeti and Kontronik Jive 80HV

bonkievan · Thu 02. Jul 2015 20:30:00

buttles wrote:I am using a REX 7. The Spirit is 'holding onto' the last signal as the Rx is unplugged.

Ok,;so it appears the new REX receivers haven't helped the issue?

Pity. I've a 700 I can't really fly until I get a FS. Too dangerous without

Fri 03. Jul 2015 13:00:59

I am sure we will solve the problem very soon together with JETI. You can use UDI, PPM or PWM in the meantime.

bonkievan · Fri 03. Jul 2015 13:59:15

ZeXx86 wrote:I am sure we will solve the problem very soon together with JETI. You can use UDI, PPM or PWM in the meantime.

Thanks, ZeXx86. Looking forward to it.

Btw- Just had my first flight with the Spirit today. Nothing flash flight wise but the Spirit felt good and solid right from the outset. The integration with the Jeti was great for tuning too. Acro bailout brutal and precise....just what you want.

buttles · Sun 19. Jul 2015 22:35:38

Hi Tomas, just loaded 1.2.1 into the Spirit and Exbus Failsafe still appears not to work. This is checking by turning off the Tx simulating a loss of signal. I have not tried pulling the Rx from the Spirit check yet. Is there anything else that needs to be set to get this to work besides the settings in the Rx?

Sun 19. Jul 2015 22:41:29

Yes, you have to disable Failsafe in the receiver for allowing Failsafe of the unit. Then it will work.

FrankFuss · Mon 20. Jul 2015 0:29:48

How do you set the failsafe channel positions in the Spirit with this new update?

buttles · Mon 20. Jul 2015 8:22:51

You don't. It's like vbar, only Throttle goes to Cutoff. (I am assuming for now) Just testing it now. Will let you know how it goes. I have asked Tomas to put some notes in the changelog to make it clearer.

Mon 20. Jul 2015 8:28:20

Failsafe is working for throttle, aileron, elevator and rudder channels. So you do not need to configure anything.

buttles · Mon 20. Jul 2015 10:42:26

ZeXx86 wrote:Failsafe is working for throttle, aileron, elevator and rudder channels. So you do not need to configure anything.

The failsafe with Throttle works fine now if you turn off the Tx or pull the connection from the Rx to the Spirit. Thanks Tomas. Only bit I don't get is your reference to the flying controls. If I hold over full rudder during the test it just stays where it was. ('Hold' in failsafe terms) Is that all it's supposed to do? Thanks

Mon 20. Jul 2015 11:09:21

Perfect.

If you are holding aileron, elevator or rudder stick all the time (even during initialization), then this position is calibrated as center position.
So if failsafe will be activated, then it will return to this center position.

Starting the unit with stick deflection is wrong as center positions are calibrated each time. If you want to check failsafe with these channels you should initialize the unit in the normal way.