Taranis with no RSSI

Today I replaced the Taranis X8R receiver in my Venture 60. I had control loss problems last Tuesday, on checking the telemetry, the RSSI was marginal and was causing warnings. After binding the new X8R I now have zero RSSI. A preliminary range check showed everything working. I bound the receiver again with the transmitter about six feet away from the model. Once again, range check OK, but still no RSSI. I've tried to understand the forums and videos, but the whole thing might as well be in a foreign language. Is there a simple way of finding out where the RSSI has gone?

Okay you have swapped out the receiver and still the same. I don't know your TX, (X9E?) but I would suggest checking the initial radio set up menus. I would then re-flash the firmware in the TX as it appears to be giving a possible false reading. Back up the radio firmware first! But you would anyway, wouldn't you. Then also in Radio Settings make sure that the RSSI power off box is ticked.

After reading your post again and again. You are saying that the the range check will let you get around 90 feet away on low power? That's around 300 ft on normal mode.

Oh, and those encapsulated antennas. I used strips of Velcro to locate them 90 degrees to each other and as far apart as possible

Brian when you did the bind you didn't use the " 1 - 8 channel no Telemetry" option did you as RSSI is a telemetry function

I think the readout showed "D 16" John.

The X8R receiver I used on Tuesday was giving low RSSI readings, when I took it out of the model, one of the plastic aerial covers had started to split along the joint.I prised the cover apart and found that the aerial wire had been re-soldered to the circuit board (I think its a circuit board, its thin and has a coating that covers any details) I'm not a radio expert, but I think that the soldered aerial is all wrong, there should be two small joints , one for the core and one for the exterior braid, this joint is one blob. I assume it doesn't work as it is shorted out.

The antenna co-ax is extremely small and the amount of bare inner conductor is critical as it is either full wave or a percentage of the radio wave. You can replace the antennas with standard new ones from T9. If the aerial is the problem then yes, the telemetry would report low signal strength. A Friday night at 1759 job?

Thanks for suggesting T9 for the aerial spares Phil. I flew the Venture 60 this afternoon. Very gusty, but solid control even though the RSSI was zero!. The range check was done with the model about half way along the strip and I stood halfway between the container and the upper gate. That must've been close to fifty yards.

Good show! Did not think you were going up as it was a bit breezy and you had not responded to my last post. Sorry.

So, it is just the telemetry not outputing/sending RSSI data.

Not a problem Phil, at least I found that the Venture handles a breeze quite nicely. The lack of telemetry was caused by incorrectly binding the Rx. The pamphlet that came with it said that the signal pins on channels 3 and 4 should be "jumpered". It bound alright and signal strength was good as the range check showed. This morning I re-bound the Rx without the jumper in place. Range check now shows RSSI of 84 at a distance of fifteen feet, and the nice lady inside the transmitter informed me that telemetry was lost when I switched the Rx off.

Jumping pins 3 & 4 disables telemetry. This if you have two receivers smart ported together, one master (sending telemetry) and one slave as back up satellite. Obviously you don't need two telemetry signals! You will remember next time won't you. :lol: