Alyon187 wrote:
Am I wrong here? I thought it was ok (when using the regular spirit) to plug the slave bec wire into the ar7700 and have the sxrl cable going to the rud port and have the throttle/master bec cable going to aux1?
Lots of people (including myself) have done this for years thinking it was balancing load or adding fault tolerance.
As I learned recently though, it is NOT a best practice, and instead ADDS risk of failure to your setup. This has been a very sobering and expensive lesson for me.
It seems from my observations and all the data I have collected from others to date, that a ground loop like this will be tolerated without incident for most. Adding high demand servos and high demand flying style that creates high amp loads on the power system hi-lite the fault potential with a ground loop. It seems logical that static discharges could also be a contributing factor.
As somebody that has experienced total loss of control on 2 different Goblin 700's a total of 4 times now, I will not ever configure power like this again (ground loop). Way too dangerous and expensive to risk losing control. Adding power connectors to your receiver has no upside and creates new risk.
*** I still can't prove that a ground loop was a factor/cause of my 4 incidents, but everything else has been eliminated and this is what remains.
All power should be connected to the FBL unit - as close to the main load as possible (servos connected to FBL).