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FX796T - Throw it away??
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Hi Guys....

Was recently flying my 250 and the video went out......never saw the tree.... Cry   Anyway, when I got it down on the bench I found that I had an intermittent connection to the VTX.  I would wiggle the wires (pwr, grd and video) coming into the plug on the VTX and my power would go on and off.  So I figured I had found the problem....bad plug coming into the VTX, right? Wrong. I checked the plug out with a meter and completely dissembled it and could find no flaw.

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So...with that being eliminated I started looking at the socket on the board itself.  I could not SEE anything wrong, so I took my best shot and re-soldered the five pins that were originally soldered to the board.

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You  may have to crank your iron up a little hotter then normal because factory soilder joints are usually put together with a higher temperature solder then we usually use.  Anyway, there must have been a hairline crake in one of the joints because now I can pull and twist (within reason) on the cable and it does not fail.

Moral of the story......just because you can't necessarly SEE the problem doesn't mean there isn't a chance you can't fix it.  It could have easily been something else, but I took a shot at it and won....this time. Big Grin   Happy flying guys!! Cool
"Damn the torpedoes!!!  Full speed ahead!!!"
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