Do you have the TX turned on??

 

I tried everything, battery in, no battery, tx on, off, basic 4ch, computer 6ch and computer 9ch. I'm lost. Is there a # I can call to talk to someone at OMP? I got it from them in Memphis. The price was right, but it will not work. :x

 

If you are getting a message "Can't find TX" instead of "Can't find adapter", it could just be a bad connection in the trainer plug. KeyKey had the exact same problem with his, the trainer plug is very easy to slide the rubber boot back on and check the continuity. The trainer plug adapters aren't very well made, but easy to fix.

Also, make sure you have the phono plug firmly seated in the adapter, you really have to ram it home.

Ikarus USA has a guy named Mike in their tech dept., he has a handle on these things.

http://www.ikarus.net/

 

Sending PM....call me and I'll try to help you.

 

OK....TailSpnr tried to help me out last night over the phone. We traced all the wires in the connections with an ohm meter. All good. Followed that through the phone plug to the USB side of the phone jack plug, all good. The AFPD boots, then pops a screen up that says it can see the USB connection, but there is no controller connected to it.

There is a black shrink wrap area between the USB and the phone jack plug. The problem must be in there. My radio works at a buddies house on his cable, but my cable will not work on his computer either.

So I will be calling Ikarus in Fla today to try and get a new cable sent out. Hope yours works. Hope they test this one before they send it to me. :roll:

 

Those cables are some real pieces of work. Mine worked for a day or so, then it couldn't find the USB device. Spnr's was DOA on the other end.

Mike at Ikarus sent me a new cable, no charge. All I had to do was box the old one up with a note inside with a description of the problem and my contact info, and pay the shipping to them.

 

Yea, they told me at IKARUS in Fla. that the magic is in the little shrink wrap area of the cable. So they wont send you a new cable unless you send them the old one. Either way, it stinks. If this is the weak link then they need to fix it!!!! I wonder what % of the cables are bad. Kinda sounds like it must be around 50% or higher.

 

Yeah, when mine went bad, the Serial Number of my sim went away. The cable has a PIC chip or EPROM or something in it that has the Serial Number. This is how they get away from software pirates. You can copy the CD all you want, but without a cable with the little chip in it, you can't run the sim. Somebody out there probably has the smarts to pirate the cable, but it wouldn't be nearly as rampant as everybody and his dog with a CD burner..

 

I can tell you from our experience the failure rate on the cables is actually very low. Probably in the 2-3% range from the amount we've sold. The design is actually pretty good from the perspective of copyrighting the software. As Chuck describes, the cable has a proprietary chip under the shrink wrap that is encoded for the software. When the program boots up it handshakes with the chip through the USB port. If the cable is not there then the program will not boot up. I would strongly advise trying a different transmitter to see if this works. I have found some transmitters are not compatible (don't know why) but it's true. The trainer ports have basically three wires: a ground, a data transmit, and a data receive; just like a typical serial port. Even though a transmitter may work as the master transmitter when hooked to a student's buddy box, does not mean that it will work in reverse as a student buddy box. So if you follow me it might receive the signal from another buddy box but it might not be transmitting the stick signals out through the trainer port. This is exactly the case in a friend of mine's 8UAP radio. I have the EXACT same radio as he does and mine works fine. His does not and we verified that something is wrong with his trainer port. He can use his as the master for training students but he can't use it as the student transmitter. We checked for a broken wire on the inside but it looked fine so it must be something in the circuitry????

Anyway, Mike at Ikarus is definately the technical guy to talk to when all else fails. But again, try different transmitters first to be sure it's not the cable.

 

Mike, I tried 4 different FUTABA Tx. 2 are basic 4 ch FM units, 1 7UAFS and 1 9CAF. I tried every one of them with and without battery, turned on and turned off. Nothing worked. The cable is in the mail on the way back to Florida to be replaced by IKARUS. I hope.

If this is an issue with my 3 different transmitters, I am not going to be a happy camper at all. Seems to me that this should not be so dang complicated. Plug & Play ya know?

Oh well. Maybe the cable will fix it and I can move on. The program looks awsome, I hope it will live up to it's visual quality.

I'm not sure how, but this has to be RAZORBACK58's fault somehow. :lol:

 

You know, between you and my ex-wife, I'll always be able to get my fair share of blame! Thanks! :roll: :twisted: Hopefully you'll get it fixed soon and you'll get in some practice. Maybe then we can get a picture of your plane where your not holding it, it's not on the ground, and we won't have to use a telephoto lens. :shock: :twisted: :lol:

 

Well that definately sounds like a cable problem then. Hopefully a replacement one will be to you shortly and solve teh problem.