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What the most AR receivers do is the standard PCM trick.

Either you can set a specific position on all the channels to be in during a signal loss (which would be good for us, only the BR6000 and AR7000 do that) or you maintain the last known position to the channel when the signal was there (which is the default for PCM) also known as the keep doing what you were doing option. In both options at no time during signal loss will there be a dirty signal to the channel so the failsafes behind the reciever never register anything wrong.

Only the throttle channel will have a failsafe preset, because that controls the gas on an airplane or helicopter and you can set that so it can cut off the engine.

The AR500 is the first (and as far as I know only) DSM2 receiver to do the FM option, let the devices behind the channel decide what to do.

What you can do (And I believe Paul Cooper does that for his Futaba 2.4 GHz machines) is to have a power cut off on the throttle channel with an rc switch and relays. As long as there is a signal, the relays stay on, power can go to the speed controllers etc, but as soon as the signal is gone the power is cut off and the robot stops.

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