Syma Forum

  I hope that someone here can help me. I have owned 3 Syma X-6 quads. Not days after I received the first one, it got stuck high in a tree and I had to wait for a storm to knock it down. And soon enough a strom blew thru and knock it down it did, however someone else must have seen it first on the ground so it wasn't recovered by me anyway. Undaunted, I bought another one and happily flew it 3 or 4 times a week for a couple of months totally enjoying learning to fly. Unfortunately, one day it came up lame. All the props spun but 2 spun the wrong way now and it would just immediately flip over, instead of flying. Since all the rotors spun I figured it was the motherboard that had lost it's mind and ordered a new circuit card. Somehow I never found the time for this delicate surgery and when I noticed the X6 was still on sale I ordered my 3rd. I should have tried it the day I got it because this one doesn't work either and it's too late to send it back.

  Basically it doesn't respond to the controller and I tried all three. Here's the most obvious thing I see right away. When I power up the drone itself, the front underneath beacon pulses fast but the rear doesn't pulse at all. On my other two the rear pulsed as well, albeit much slower. Something tells me that this proves the tiny brain in the circuitry is not initializing.

  So my question is, do I need to change the motherboard on this one as well or is there some kind of calibration to try first?

Thanks for any help.