Spectrum setup

hi all

havent got it yet but is the dx6 easy to setup quickly etc? and can you set it to not need a v tail mixer?

thanks alex

Yes ..... There is a mix option.

my opinion is once you have one, you wont go back

if you are using electroizers (the mix DONT WORK properly)use a mixer

it makes it go very slow (dragon king) beauty with leos speedoes works great

my opinion is once you have one, you wont go back

I have been very tempted to sell mine and go back to 40meg

Nearly all of us Aussies have converted to Spektrum. Simply because it works every single time you set it up and turn it on... 6Ch, plenty of features, no more damned crystals that fail or tuning coils to fail in RXs, No stupid aerials to get cut off, several mixing options, and it was cheaper then some of the FM radios we had... The rest of the guys either cant afford one yet or are clinging onto their 75mhz Futaba PCM radios due to extra features in the CAP7 / CAP9 models.

(Message edited by teamvertex on September 12, 2007)

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I have been very tempted to sell mine and go back to 40meg

How come? Just curious.

A few reasons,

- I dont like the ergonomics of the trasmitter. I generally like to hold my trasmitter more horizontally than vertically and the Dx6s screen then points away from me. It also doesnt feel as natural to me to hold.

- It doesnt have a seperate channel off the joysticks that allows variable control over a channel unlike the futaba 6ex which has channel 6 variable

- The receiver whilst being small is far to fragile. The pins look far to easy to bend unlike the futaba where they are protected. I am not running an ant weight so a bit of extra box around the receiver doesnt give me any head aches.

- They refer to the channels on the Tx and Rx as flaps, rudder etc. Fantastic if you have a plane. An extra headache to work out which channels to use. With a futaba its always channels 1 to 6 and beyond. Nice and simple for any model to use.

- The sticks on the transmiter are too stiff for my liking.

- They can say all they want that it is easy to program. Took me a good half hour (with the manual) to figure out how to put mixing between two channels. With a futaba I am done in seconds without the manual.

- The problems that gave me a real headache at the UK champs were not from my speedos as I had thought but from the spektrum.

The only thing that I feel that it has going for it is that I can control my bot from 150m away. Not a major advantage as futaba now have a 2.4ghz version of the 6ex. I dont believe it has failsafing on all channels but I cant see it being long before they have the option.

So if anyone from futaba is reading this then please get in contact about sponsorship :)

I dont like the ergonomics of the trasmitter. I generally like to hold my trasmitter more horizontally than vertically and the Dx6s screen then points away from me. It also doesnt feel as natural to me to hold.

You are ware you can bend the arial to hold it to whatever position? And i would not know why i would look at my TX while driving. Besides, angling (pointing the antenna to the robot, boat, heli, whatever) is actually very bad with a 40 MHz. You should have that one upright. Thats why a lot of antennas on bigger model TXs are already set at an angle because it is assumed you lay those flat in a cradle.

It doesnt have a seperate channel off the joysticks that allows variable control over a channel unlike the futaba 6ex which has channel 6 variable

All channels are proportinal, just remove 1 of the swithces and put in a pot or a button or slider or whatever.

The receiver whilst being small is far to fragile. The pins look far to easy to bend unlike the futaba where they are protected. I am not running an ant weight so a bit of extra box around the receiver doesnt give me any head aches

Poor the thing in cement. :) It does not matter for reception. Ive got mine in separate boxes, so that is no problem.

They refer to the channels on the Tx and Rx as flaps, rudder etc. Fantastic if you have a plane. An extra headache to work out which channels to use. With a futaba its always channels 1 to 6 and beyond. Nice and simple for any model to use.

The better TXs including futaba can also switch channels on stick (like mode 1 to mode 2). But I do agree that if you have a bot receiver it would make more sense to call it 1 2 3 4 5 6. But my FX18 has channel 1 and 4 on the left and 2 and 3 on the right standard.

They can say all they want that it is easy to program. Took me a good half hour (with the manual) to figure out how to put mixing between two channels. With a futaba I am done in seconds without the manual

Then you are a better programmer than I because I still need the manual on my Futaba FX18.

The problems that gave me a real headache at the UK champs were not from my speedos as I had thought but from the spektrum.

You are right about that, it should not be so far of the mark with other TXs.

The only thing that I feel that it has going for it is that I can control my bot from 150m away. Not a major advantage as futaba now have a 2.4ghz version of the 6ex. I dont believe it has failsafing on all channels but I cant see it being long before they have the option.

I contacted Robbe a while ago when they came out with their 2.4 system but they where in no hurry to alter anything with regards to failsafing.

So if anyone from futaba is reading this then please get in contact about sponsorship

I still have a nice FX18 if your interested.

(Message edited by leorcc on September 12, 2007)

Oh and a F14, Skysport 4, Skysport 6, and a Hitec Zebra (which is terrible).