Even though the part in your hand is capable of running a DSMX link, doesn't mean it will bind as DSMX. The strange wrinkle here is anything DSMX is backwards compatible to DSM2 - a DSMX RX *OR* TX can revert to DSM2 and stop hopping if the other partner in the pair can't handle DSMX (or has been told to revert to DSM2). The 615X RX's are DSMX modules, which is a frequency hopping protocol, where the old 610's and 615's are DSM2, and pick two frequencies at the initial link time. I have 5 ORS units and will buy more because they are cheap and if you follow a method that gives you a reliable result the are a good product for having fun with. Prevention is better that cure and if one can fly trusting you equipment it creates a much better flying experience. I'm not trashing ORX just explaining something I found and some method to combat the loss of a plane. Solid light on RX and no issues at previous altitude. Removed battery, power down tx then back on and installed same battery. I brought down my bix an followed my tried and trusted method. Its not a prolonged period just enough to get the heart rate up then control was back. Regained control and pushed higher same thing happened. I took the plane up and I felt a brown out at a lower altitude than what I was on the first battery. Second battery was placed into my plane and this time I did not power down my TX needles to say the RX displayed a flashing light. I did not whant to go to far away horizontally as I thought that if the bix has a brown out I might have time to recover a connection on the way down. Firts battery Solid light and I could go high. I hear what you all say and I took my Bixler up in the air today.
I hope this helps out some other Orange users that scratch their heads with the same issues. I have not experienced this problem in flight only when changing the battery. It happened to 2 of my R615 and to 1 of the R615X units. I bound it to my TX and have not experienced this problem again. Now I have a light and small dead RX what to do? For some strange reason I stuck the binding jumper on the RX and all the right lights on all the right places came on. I removed the electronic circuit from the plastic housing and realised how small and light this made it. Then, I once again blamed a cheap product, but I had 4 of these and had to fiddle. First thing I tried was a new battery but the same problem persisted. The second issue I have found that after numerous flights for some bizarre reason when connecting power to my plane the RX unit shows no lights at all and no signal can be established. This produce a solid bind and I have since then not had another uncontrollable nose dive. I have since found out that one should switch your TX off and on when swapping a battery. I got cocky after the first battery and was pushing the range on the 2nd when disaster struck. Once bound with the TX the R615 and 615X shows a solid orange light this light however changes to a flashing orange once a battery is changed and this is not a solid bind. Unfortunately after purchasing 4 of these cheap units I had to do more research on the range of these units and actually found that the fault was on my side. I have read some bad reviews and had it stuck in my head that its a bad and cheap product. My first reaction was to blame the orange RX.
It was completely dead sticks and I have nightmares about it.
#ORX ORANGE RX FULL#
The first thing that happened to me was my first FT Spitfire took a nasty nose dive at full throttle for no reason. Hey all maybe this topic was covered earlier and if not I am sure I am and wont be the only person experiencing the following issues with the Orange R615 units.