Question about RX

[patinsunnyhills]

I just finished my lights on my SC (sorry no pics yet but they are bright!!)

I have used coil transformer wire to run the lights. I have a light running to the top of my tail wing. The wires are running along side of the RX wire. Will this reduce my RX range if I leave it there?

Im afraid to put it in the air at the moment because last night I was running the plane up and down the road. Going away from me, 200' is fine but when I turned the plane around to come back, I lost my RX. I dont have a RX comparison between not having those lights on and having it on running it down the road.

I also have two strips of packing tape over the RX wire and the light wires.

Need to know of opinions if I may have reduced my range. Should I get rid of the wires completly? Should I put them underneath the fuse instead of on top? Does packing tape covering the RX wire reduce RX range? Or do you think Im safe to take off and not lose my plane?

[gagallagher04401]

None of it should effect anything. The system is so small that any interference should not even be noticible I do not think. Could it be to other sources around where you are running? Utility power? etc....?

I would check all wires for possable bad connection. Then try it again. Then I would unhook from where you are powering the lights and try it, then with them on to eliminate possabilities.

yah never know, may never do it again to yah.

[patmatgal]

The way I read the post you have the antennae wire running next to the tail light wire. Seems there may be some interference right there, I use a smaller receiver with smaller antennae and always hear about keeping the antennae at least 2 inches away from the electrics. As gagallagher04401 said, "None of it should effect anything." (still can't post a quote) so maybe the longer antennae is more forgiving. It would be the first place I looked (just me though) but check the connections first and if the problem is still there think of running the power wire through the hollow tail boom.

[gagallagher04401]

It is when you run electrical conduit with wires in it, you never run a "communication cable" in the same conduit with "power" cables. If run cables on cable tray you are suppose to keep at least 6 inches between the power and communication cables. This is a much smaller scale, so if it is possable to route them further from one another it may not help but it will defintly not hurt anything.