Need to disconnect/reconnect battery between flights?

Posted by John O'Shaughnessy on August 17, 2014 at 7:32am

Greetings,

I'm very new at flying with Iris, but after I land and move the control stick to the disarm position, I need to disconnect and reconnect the battery to fly again.

Is this common/expected?  

Often I'll fly for 3-4 minutes, then need to check something, so I land, check things over, then want to take off again.  Nothing happens until I disconnect/reconnect the battery.

Ideas?

Thanks,

John

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    • John O'Shaughnessy August 24, 2014 at 8:52pm
      I'm starting to wonder if that was it. I flew a full battery yesterday, and landed and disarmed at least 4 times. I was able to re-arm and launch each time without disconnecting the battery.
    • John O'Shaughnessy August 17, 2014 at 7:07pm

      Thanks for the additional data.  I'll investigate further.  I was hoping to get out today for some test flights in the back yard, but by the time I charged the battery, it had started to rain.

      I'll try to capture more information about the conditions when I need to unplug/replug the battery.

      Thanks!

      John

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    • John O'Shaughnessy August 17, 2014 at 8:49am

      Correct - I'm trying to re-arm IRIS, and I see no lights, no sound and no movement until I disconnected and reconnect the battery.

      This does not happen all the time, but more than half of the time.

      Here are the steps I'm following:

      1) Fly

      2) Land IRIS

      3) Move left stick to lower left to disarm motors

      4) Press safety button

      --- do other things for minute or so (leaving transmitter on)

      5) Press safety button - get solid red light

      6)Get blinking blue or blinking green LED, depending on mode  (sometimes i get yellow here, and I do disconnect battery as suggested in the IRIS manual)

      7) At this point I attempt to arm by moving the left stick to the lower right -- and I get nothing, unless I disconnect and reconnect the battery.  I'd say this happens about 60% of the time.

      Thanks,

      John

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