2.4Ghz radio control

**geoff** · 12th June 2006, 23:24

OK, first report on this bit of kit..
One word...WOW!
This a very well built radio, quality is easly equal to a high end Futaba unit.
Set up, matching of RX & TX and setting failsafes is very easy, (no more complicated that setting failsafes on a PCM unit)
Failsafe response on TX turn off is much quicker than PCM.
Range is exellent, my back garden is arounnd 300 long and I have total control at all of my garden plus the drive and out to the pavement, in fact I couldnt get far enough away to loose it!
The only slight downside is because of the very short RX aerials (Under 3) to get the aerials out side the robot means having to have the RX relitivly close to the body. I have also tried it with RX and aerials inside the robot and it still works fine even screened by 4MM of hardox!!although the range was cut down to around 200 (still more than good enough for most events)
Also I would recomend placing the RX in some form of protective cover as it is very small and light and could be a little vunerable if left unprotected.
All in all a very nice radio.

**kane** · 13th June 2006, 08:40

Sounds great! Cant wait till I actually get chance to try mine out!

**jamesb** · 13th June 2006, 08:45

can we move this thread out of the safety section?
Its not a safety issue, and its filling up my inbox with product endorsements for a system I dont want right now.
Sorry, but its annoying having to delete the conversation filling my email, thats all.

Damn! I just added another email to it

**leorcc** · 13th June 2006, 20:54

I disagree. This is not just about a system we would like, but it is about adding the 2.4 GHz band to the list of allowed available frequencies. Sounds like a safety thing to me.

**geoff** · 27th June 2006, 16:34

Some reports on 2.4Ghz radio from the RFL forum.

http://forums.delphiforums.com/therfl/messages/?msg=3428.1 http://forums.delphiforums.com/therf...es/?msg=3428.1

It seems they like it!

**grant_ploughbot** · 18th July 2006, 15:19

Do you know whether you can use more than one reveiver at the same time with these transmitters? I.E run channels 1-2-3 through one receiver and 4-5-6 through another?

Also, where can you get these from apart from th e robot marketplace?

thanks

**Kenny** · 18th July 2006, 16:26

you cant run more than 1 reciever, has you after bind the transmitter to the reciever and it wont connect to anything else

(Message edited by teamkenny on July 18, 2006)

**leorcc** · 18th July 2006, 17:45

I know of at least two robots were this would be a problem, but for the most robots that makes no real difference.

**kane** · 18th July 2006, 17:49

Actually, I dont see why this wouldnt work...

The receiver is paired to the transmitter, and you can pair as many as you like.

I will try this later.

Geoffs experience with the feather are just as true for the heavys... Our experience at fairford was completely uninterupted driving with the aerials burried inside the robot.

Channels 5 and 6 are on switches making them both easy to extend to a buddy box (although I havent tried this).

The only difficulty at the moment is the lack of the BR6000 receiver which is in short supply. There is a very fiddly way around this if you are using components with their own built in failsafes though using the AR6000 receiver and a SMT opto-isolator.