ar6200 led blinking

[Evan]

ive red through the manual and didnt find out what it means. every flight it blinks but i never have lost power. its blinked on both the 450 and now this with both the proton esc and ice 50 castle.

my orange reciever doesnt blink like this but ive only flown it a hanfull of times and never crashed it. this 6200 has been on board for countless crashes

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That sure looks like a power loss signal. I'd bet that there's either a voltage drop somewhere in the circuit or the Rx has a defect. Since it doesn't start blinking when you first hook up the power there's a 50/50 chance it's something in the circuit.

Have you used your Orange Rx on this setup? If not, try that. If it doesn't blink, call the guys at Horizon and they'll likely replace the AR6200 for you.

[Evan]

Last night I tried the orange rx. It does it to. I ordered the CC bec pro 20a and will get the new radio setup this week.

I'm also wondering if its a voltage drop.

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If that doesn't solve it you're going to need to check each servo and all of the wiring. Fun, fun.

[Raygun]

A switching BEC can cause this problem too .... or so I have read maybe make sure the RX is far enough away from the ESC or put a ferrite ring on the BEC signal wire.. Ray

[Evan]

the esc was just a cheap rx power supply. it is fairly close to rx . i never did like that setup.

when i get the ar8000 on and the new cc bec pro ill mount it as far from the rx as i can.

i sure hope its not a servo thing. i guess if the new setup still does it ill be able to unplug one servo at a time untill i pinpoint wich one is causeing it.

i think the castle bec has a ferit ring on it

but man its gota just be a power thing and that proton esc cant deliver what the digital servos need. whooos im gona plug my ice 50 on it real quick and see what it does. i may even turn it up 6 volts and see what happens

thanks for the replies

[Evan]

just tired the castle esc set at 6volts. no better. thought i had it tracked the rightside al servo got all excited then it did it without that servo plugged in.

im just going to stop messing with it till i get the right radio and reciever

this is going backwords. the reciever and power supply are gutted now with a bunch of cables hanging everywhere. im

[akent]

My 600 did the exact same thing.

AR7000 with a 10 amp BEC on a separate 2s Lipo, Align servos all the way around, Align GP750 gyro.

If I jammed the sticks, the receiver would reset and blink.

I had a very hard time fixing this. The only thing that finally did fix it was to add a low ESR capacitor plugged into one of the receiver ports. This provided enough surge current to keep it from browning out.

I'm willing to bet that this is also your problem. I seem to have heard of places selling cap setups like this.
If you can't find any, then I think I have a couple of spare caps.
Kent

[Raygun]

Like this one??

www.hobby-lobby.com/voltage_protector_capacitor_2212_prd1.htm

[Evan]

Thanks for the link.

[akent]

That's it.
I would assume that it is low ESR, since they are selling it for that purpose.
Low ESR (Equivalent Series Resistance) is just a measure of it's instantaneous current capability. That looks to be a 4,700uf cap, but it's a little hard to read. That's what I used.

That's also a very reasonable price, as the caps I bought were 2 bucks each and then you have to solder the leads on.

It should fix your problem.

I'm surprised that more folks don't have that kind of problem. With the way the newer receivers reboot themselves quickly after a brownout, this problem might show up as a 'stumble', or 'hesitation' when doing sudden moves.
Kent

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Wouldn't this be a good thing to install on any application with digital servos or a lot of analogs? Wouldn't it kind of take the place of an external BEC as long as the ESC was up to the task?

[Raygun]

Could you use a Y cable from another port if all your slots are filled??? Ray

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Wouldn't you plug it into the battery port?

[Raygun]

You can except if you have an external bec that port is used up as well.. Ray