'Failsafe'ing Receivers

[craig_colliass]

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Thanks Dave DX7 fail safe on all channels that's useful info, though I will probably keep the old stuff till it breaks! I have just now done an aerial mod on the DX5e were you put the aerial in the RX case so it won't get broken.
I did a test on Tron and worked a treat.
I'm sure it will reduce the effective range but for robots that's not really a problem, test it for real at Leeds

[Mouldy]

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Good mod that, I thought about doing it to mine... I remember woody posted a link years ago to a rubber duck type aerial mod, tried to find it before but failed.... So woody if you read this....

[Jeroenl]

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I really think the failsafe part is in the receiver, not in the transmitter.
I do not see how the DX7 would preform better than the DX6i, it is same technology. The DX7 is more advanced for as far i can judge.
In my opinion both are overpriced .

[PJ-27]

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Where do people get their OrangeRxs?

[harry hills]

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ebay

[Laser]

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hobbyking and ebay

[PJ-27]

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Just checked my Ebay purchase history and the OrangeRx I bought doesn't state whether it's R610 or like wise, so may have been a rip-off hence not failsafing.

I'll try buying another and see if that makes any difference.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Orange-Rx-R61 ... 1c26f62b47

[Mouldy]

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bought these earlier this week; http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/130649037879? ... 1439.l2649

Just tried one in diablo running the tz85's on drive and a turnigy rc switch on the weapon and a dx7 as the tx, no external failsafes etc.... all failsafed fine first time.

[PJ-27]

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Cheers Dave! Failsafing seems to be the bane of my robot life!

[razerdave]

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Because you're using electronize :P

[Ellis]

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Not once have I had a failsafe problem with Electronize, Mr!

[PJ-27]

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This is in BitzaWood which have some £13 controllers from China. On Tx power down they just stay where they are.

BitzaMk2 seems to have completely arbitary conditions that means the drive failsafes, it was just lucky the case was true at the time of the champs.

[psycho_fling]

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elextronize are easy to failsafe, the more annoying part is getting them to work together nicely

[PJ-27]

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Just bought these:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/130649037879? ... 1439.l2649

They don't failsafe! Throttle channel does, but all others just stay where they are on Tx power down so the bot just keeps on driving....
Using a DX5E, just trying servos at the moment to see how it performs.
Any suggestions on how I can get this to failsafe?

[Eventorizon]

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I just bought a pair of those to! Dam it!