crystals

haz · Post by **haz** » Wed May 26, 2010 3:10 pm

what crystals would definatly work with this http://www.sussex-model-centre.co.uk/sh ... p?id=19142 thankyou

daliad100 · Post by **daliad100** » Wed May 26, 2010 3:21 pm

I'd assume that any 40 MHZ crystal from hitec would work.

http://www.sussex-model-centre.co.uk/sh ... sp?id=1323

Or you could stick with 2.4 GHz and not bother with having to deal with crystals

Just buy more recievers and bind them to the transmitter.

haz · Post by **haz** » Wed May 26, 2010 3:33 pm

well, my friend is starting in antweights (basicly using my spares) and wants me to help him and gets moany when i say that i cant fight the robots i build cos there on the same tx so thats why im using a 40mhz cos its cheap for him, long live my robots deodorANT 2 and antipersperANT

daliad100 · Post by **daliad100** » Wed May 26, 2010 3:40 pm

Although the giant cod transmitter costs a bit more, it's worth the extra money for another channel and genrally less problems with interference etc.

haz · Post by **haz** » Wed May 26, 2010 3:44 pm

mine eats bateries tho

terminaldamage · Post by **terminaldamage** » Thu May 27, 2010 9:12 am

I noticed the Giant Cod transmitter seemed a bit battery-hungry but wasn't sure if it was just me. I remember people modifying the DX6 when it first came out so it would last longer on a single charge as it used to gobble up power too. Not sure if something similar can be done with the Giant Cod one.
Put some rechargeable batteries in your transmitter, get a Futaba-type tx/rx battery charger and use the charge socket on the side to charge the batteries when they get flat.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RIPMAX-FUTABA-TRA ... _500wt_721

Costs a few pounds but the savings will kick in when you don't have to keep buying new AA batteries

peterwaller · Post by **peterwaller** » Thu May 27, 2010 10:25 am

I just measured my Giant Cod transmitter and it only takes about 100ma.
With some of the newer AA Duracells giving up to 2500mah that should be about 25 hours on a set of batteries. Even rechargeables should give in excess of 15 hours between charges.

haz · Post by **haz** » Thu May 27, 2010 3:19 pm

mines propably the weird one then

leo-rcc · Post by **leo-rcc** » Fri May 28, 2010 10:15 am

I bought my DX6i about 1,5 year ago and it's still on its first charge (2700mAh). But now it is getting pretty low though.

terminaldamage · Post by **terminaldamage** » Fri May 28, 2010 1:04 pm

Just realised that the battery pack in mine is a spare I got when I had my Skysport 6 returned from repair. That was back in 2006, and it's been charged a grand total of two/three times since then, so it probably just needs a good cycle