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Hey Guys, you might run into this issue like I did with my Baby Lama. I'm...

Hey Guys, you might run into this issue like I did with my Baby Lama. I'm running:
- Kontronik Pyro motor
- Kontronik Kolibri 90 LV
- Bavarian Demon 3X
- Jeti REX7 receiver

As you can see in the video, immediately after spool up (slow 60-second spool), servos would twitch. This happened in my first hover tests as well. Here's what I did to track down the issue (with lots of advice from my friends):

- Checked whether there was an inadvertent short in the motor by putting an ohm meter on the housing of the motor and each lead from the motor. This can happen if one or more mounting bolts touches the motor wires. NO SHORT.

- Made sure I had a ferrite noise suppressor on the cable running from the ESC to the receiver.

- Moved the ESC out of the fuse to see if proximity was the issue

- Finally decided that the noise was coming through the power lead of the ESC directly into the throttle channel of the receiver and ultimately into the gyro.

I resolved the issue by adding a short servo extension to the ESC cable and clipping the power (red) wire on the extension so NO POWER was being transmitted from the ESC/BEC to the receiver. I added a cable from the receiver to the last open port on the gyro (for power) and added a 7.4V Lipo to power the receiver separately.

No more glitches!