solentlife
Second Officer
Flight distance : 1087530 ft
Azerbaijan
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I fitted an ARGTEK unit to a pals P3S in the field ... sat in his car and did it for him. 12v Hot Glue gun applied blobs to antenna plugs when fitted ... closed it all up ...
Powered up and tested out to 2kms all fine.
The main thing is :
Make sure those tiny plugs go ON STRAIGHT and pushed down hard to click ... if not then you are liable to suffer the same as some others claim - poor results - ......
Second - the plastic bridge that the three antenna screw to - can actually be a tiny bit too thick and stops the antenna screwing on fully to stop. The barrel hits the plastic first. I ground back the barrel about 0.5mm so that it screws on and contact bottoms out BEFORE barrel touches plastic.
I have fitted a number of Argtek units and all performed excellently. Mine and some I fitted were just eBay buys that may not be original Argtek ... worked just the same.
With parabolic reflector (two together) on centre antenna ... I actually flew a number of flights over 5kms out. But not advised as the last flight of over 5kms out ended up with battery running out before she got home and in the river she went !!
I actually still have that controller in A1 condition if anyone wants to buy and pay postage from Latvia ... offers accepted ...
Nigel
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