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Originally Posted by Joes
It is my understanding the moisture issues with the Uavionix tail beacon, is from water trailing down the wires into the unit. With a hole placed in the bottom of the tube loop and oriented downward, this should help the problem. As for the unit being submerged, that will call for other measures lol. Uavionix was great to work with and replaced my unit with a new one for 1/2 AMU. Joe
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The water doesn't exactly "trail down the wires" into the Tailbeacon. It simply enters the tailbeacon through the same hole that the wires go through. The hole is intentionally not sealed so the the baro sensor can get a reading.
That clear tube around the wires in the picture is not included in the install kit or mentioned in the instructions (at least wasn't when mine was installed). That is uAvionix's "suggestion" as to how one might keep this from happening again. In theory it could work, but if the lower rudder cap is 100% full of water like mine was, I'm not sure it would've made any difference.