Quote Originally Posted by Chris230291
sweet cheers dude. i dont think i will be spending a lot of money on the transmitter so i guess if i go for a good name i wont have mixing, which will make things easier?? and as for the 50/50, will this cause me problems or will i just have less slow speed control in reverse? been a great help, cheers man. oh! and how will the 3rd channel work on a wheel transmitter? will it just be a switch? sorry i haven't a clue with things rc. im learning though, it's cool.

Cheers
I just picked up a Spektrum DX3.0 because we seem to be doing quite a bit of driving on the cars with wheel transmitters.

Have just tried it out and it seems just fine. The mixing on it is disabled because I'm running it with a speed controller which has internal mixing but that all seems to work just nicely. I Dave Moulds uses one for driving 360 but does not use it for weapons control.

The third channel on these can be set to do various functions such as lap timer, gear selector etc. I did notice that you have to press once for on and press again for off so if you're not concentrating then things could go horribly wrong. The set up isn't that intuitive either so it's one of those occassions where reading the manual really helps. The third channel doesn't seem to do a proportional control either so if you have need position control or speed control (spinner) it's not much use.

I think Dave uses a kenny and a seperate controller to operate the disc on 360 and has a seperate receiver in the machine.

Haven't tested out the failsafes either.

The dx3.0 is about 80pounds but you can get the dx3e which is slightly cheaper at about 70pounds.