5) Close the head-tracker bay door
6) Carefully attach the other end of the flat-flex cable to the rapidFIRE receiver using the same
procedure described above.
7) Install the rapidFIRE receiver into the Rx bay
8) Close the Rx bay with the appropriate goggle-bay door
9) Apply the sticker (pick a color) to cover up the flatflex cable.
10) Go Fly
Note that to verify that the aux power modification worked, enter the main menu, and look in the bottom
left corner of the OLED display. If a voltage is displayed, the mod did not work. If no voltage is displayed,
then you are good to go.
Option 2: Repair Center Modification
Included here for completeness, but we don’t really expect pilots to give up their precious goggles for
a few days.
If you do wish to eliminate the auxiliary power board a simple modification to the goggles may be
performed by one of our repair centers, located in the USA, UK, and Australia.
To start the process, please send an email to
repairs@immersionrc.com
with the title ‘HDO Power
Modification’.
Option 3: DIY Goggle Modification
We do cringe a bit suggesting this, but given the fact that most pilots these days are fairly skilled with
a soldering iron, and have successfully been adding power switches to their dominators we will
suggest it anyway.
There is a fairly simple procedure to bridge one of the components that causes power issues for the
older goggles. Basically, this component was a power filter that was included for good engineering
practice, but was never really required.
Please be aware that any damage caused by opening your goggles to perform this operation is not
covered by your warranty, however, our network of repair centers can always patch things up if the
procedure goes horribly wrong (at your expense of course).
The procedure is documented in the User-Manuals section of our rapidFIRE product web page here:
https://www.immersionrc.com/fpv-products/rapidfire/
