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TBS Mambo critical failure
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I have been flying my Ethix Mambo for over a year now and love being able to fly my digital quads on crossfire with the module and my analog apex’s on tracer. Yesterday while flying the analog quad in a turn it stayed in the turn on its own for a few seconds and wasn’t responding to the sticks. I had to disarm crashing in a tree. I figured it was the wiring or the tracer receiver so I flew another analog quad and in one minute of flying it did it again. It seems to be locked out like it was flying its last command ? I fly in the middle of nowhere so I doubt it’s signal related and from searching the internet this is happening to more Mambo owners. Please use caution because it could cause some major damage or injuries.
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there should come a failsafe, it might be a wrong signal.

i would suggest to check the gimbals calibration and work. calibrate them freshly.

on the tango 2 the only common issue was the sd card and its stored stickcalibration. format the sd card or replace and calibrate freshly did solve the issues back than.
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(16-Dec-2023, 10:50 PM)hugnosed_bat Wrote: there should come a failsafe, it might be a wrong signal.

i would suggest to check the gimbals calibration and work. calibrate them freshly.

on the tango 2 the only common issue was the sd card and its stored stickcalibration. format the sd card or replace and calibrate freshly did solve the issues back than.

I installed a new sd card about eight months ago and did recalibrate it. The calibration process is a pain to get it perfect according to the display in the mambo. My LQ and everything in the OSD never changed and neither stick moved the quad till I disarmed. I wonder how long a two hundred dollar remote is supposed to last because I fly almost every day.
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(17-Dec-2023, 12:41 PM)SoCal_FPV Wrote: I installed a new sd card about eight months ago and did recalibrate it. The calibration process is a pain to get it perfect according to the display in the mambo. My LQ and everything in the OSD never changed and neither stick moved the quad till I disarmed. I wonder how long a two hundred dollar remote is supposed to last because I fly almost every day.

Are you using idle up?
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(26-Jan-2024, 01:48 PM)mattyfleischfpv Wrote: Are you using idle up?
100%. On my fettec F7’s. Not on the new G4 on Alpha. I do use soft start on Kiss Ultra FCFC v2 and that is just like idle up.
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Yeah, I had the same problem lol. I made a couple of videos on it... it might explain it better than trying to here.





Hope that helps, but likely not an actual hardware issue at all.
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(07-Mar-2024, 09:41 PM)mattyfleischfpv Wrote: Yeah, I had the same problem lol. I made a couple of videos on it... it might explain it better than trying to here.





Hope that helps, but likely not an actual hardware issue at all.

I appreciate it Matty. I believe my issue was the update that TBS released and now that firmware has been removed. Nobody should run a firmware that says beta even if you think it’s safe. Love your content too ! Please keep ripping !
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