Did I make my Polk radio Brain-dead???

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  • wlambing
    SubCommittee Member
    • Feb 2003
    • 848

    Did I make my Polk radio Brain-dead???

    Have been working on some boats and trying to get one in particular to the point of in-water testing. This boat (Ch 61) has been pretty good about the sticks, switches, and servos working the way they are supposed to. That is until the other night when I shut-down work before bed-time, not realizing I had left the transmitter on. The boat was turned off. Next day, I discover my error and slap the rdo on the charger for 16 hours. Try to resume my testing work, but:; ballast air pump stays running, unless stick is moved to vent position, throttle goes to immediate full-bore in ahead stick, (but in astern direction!), will go to neutral, and has some, small range of control in astern direction. No matter which way a stick is moved, the rudder and stern planes servos only move one way. I changed rdo over to another boat (Ch 69) and get the same results. I changed freq. thinking I may need to re-link my Polk Seeker 6 receiver in the Ch 61 boat, but it seems the transmitter is where the problem lies.

    I like the Polk and have 7 models in it. I have 3 Seeker receivers that really seem to work well as spares. I also have a VEX unit rdo (CH 85) I use for another boat with the VEX receiver (SubTech ?) and have another of that type receiver linked to the Polk as the (Ch 69) boat.

    Being a retiree, a wholesale swap-out of radios is not gonna be in the cards, which is another likeable feature of using the Polk system. Unless the accident settlement is really good.....

    Take care,

    Bill

    ps- This has also been posted to Bob Martin's site.
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