Sky High

When repairing my DF from its last crash, I noticed an exposed wire in my main wiring harness. At first I thought this might have happened because of the two hard impacts I have had. DFI said that they get these pre-assembled so after close examination, I noticed the following which now shows it is a factory flaw. One of the wires in this plug has exposed strands. I removed the wire to find that it had not slipped out of the metal connector because there were no crimp marks on the shielding. That is not necessarily a problem but the following is. There aren't many strands in this 26 guage wire to give it strength anyway. So if there is any stress on this wire from a hard landing or crash and it's not noticed it could be stressed further in flight over time and part thereby causing a crash from power failure. I tried to put heat shrink around it to strengthen it from stress but there is no tolerance for that extra thickness in the port. Below is a picture of the harness with the wire in a yellow box. Check your harness carefully!

Hooch

Thanks for the tip, will check mine out.

targit

A careful squirt with a SMALL hot glue gun or some rubber adhesive should hold that little sucker and insulate it.

madean

Or a dab of silicone sealant.

targit

carefull not to get the acetic cure stuff though, it can eat at copper wire.

detroitdr

SkyHigh,

that will not affect anything that you have describe. :> It won't make it "weaker". It's just a little sloppy, but again isn't anything to be concerned with.