20-Nov-2016, 08:59 PM
Hi Guys....
Was recently flying my 250 and the video went out......never saw the tree.... 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.
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.
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. Happy flying guys!!
Was recently flying my 250 and the video went out......never saw the tree.... 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.
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.
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. Happy flying guys!!
"Damn the torpedoes!!! Full speed ahead!!!"