noooooo think i blown 1 of my speedos mornin before comp quote from josh in aylesbury thread.

was that a mtroniks marine 25?
thought they were unblowable?

So if all speedconrollers need additional external failsafes (except the Viper apparently,) where will we get these failsafes from? wonder who on this forum might be offering them for sale?

Quite simply, electronize units with the cpu failsafe, unless there are background noises to interfere. Electronize units without the cpu maintain the last position held if it looses signal, thus not failsafe.

This means that we need to define what failsafe means

1: upon loss of signal the robot ceases all movement and weapon activity.

2: upon loss of signal, or interferance, or weak signal, or any other type of signal condition resulting in any kind of glitch or twitch, or loss of any control even for a split second, the robot ceases all function immidiatly.

number 2 is obviously the desired version, number 1 the realistic one