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[HKG3A3]

Afternoon guys, hope youve all got out and enjoyed some watertime this afternoon.

Sadly at the boat lake on the Wirral the only thing moving on it was a horrible jap thing from maplin

My boats 2nd outing was plauged with radio signal problems

Dry testing at home and the bath was perfect, i had no reason to believe it wouldnt behave like that out on the water, but you guessed it.....

With in 2 seconds i lost throttle, then steering then it came back but in reverve. Then nothing then dead for 30 minutes then recovery once home back to normal.

Ive gone over and over everything and im stumeped.

My money is on the esc cutting out,

The reciever is a acoms 27mhz 2 channell, all my batteries are charges and the battery is a 6v hobby battery.

The speed controller uses the battery to power the reciever, do you think a seperate battery pack would help?????

Thanks in advance.

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[DickyD]

Have you tried it since you got home.

Those cheapy Maplin boats normally run on 27mhz and are renown for messing up other 27mhz signals.

Just a thought. 

[Shipmate60]

As Dicky has said the cheap models can use a very broad 27 MHz range and interfere with other 27 MHz Radio Gear.

Bob

[dougal99]

In my experience 'proper' Tx's will blot out the cheap sets as they are more powerful.

Have you tried a reange check? Bench and bath checks are very short range and should work even with aerial probs. Intermittent faults are a pig to solve but first I would check all your wiring for breaks and dry joints. Then move on to trying another Tx and Rx. Failing all that get a new 2.4 set.

[w3bby]

As Dicky has said the cheap models can use a very broad 27 MHz range and interfere with other 27 MHz Radio Gear.

Bob

Agree, can be a right pain in the b***. Did you try it whilst the "jap" thing was swtched off?

[HKG3A3]

Thanks for the replies, i havnt done a range test thats a good idea, ill try that tomorrow. Weve just put the lad  to bed and i could here a strange noise, anyway when we were sure he was sleeping i came down stairs to find the rudder twitching like mad, i think i need a 2 ghz'er.

I didnt get chance to give it a go as he had a nuclear battery and was on for ages,  by then id lost my rag with the father inlaw and we all went home.

Thanks guys, any one recomend a nice set up for the tx and rx

[Captain Flack]

Spektrum, Planet, Radio Gear.  Any will do, depends on the number of channels and any mixing you may want at a later date.

[Subculture]

Getting a 2.4ghz set is a great investment in your hobby. Not only can you kiss interference and frequency allocation goodbye, you will also get multi channels and you can use it in flying models too. 27mhz is still legal for the latter but you'd have to be crackers to use a flying machine on 27mhz these days.

I would recommend a secondhand or new Spektrum TX, then just use the orange receivers from Hobbyking. They cost about £4 each. I believe they are the most inexpensive receivers on the market, but they work fantastically well.

[essex2visuvesi]

Seconded on the Spektrum gear... well worth the extra few quid over the cheaper brands and as others have said the orange RXs from hobbyking et al are fine for our needs

I still use futaba for my planes and helis tho as theres still that little part of me that doesn't trust a £4.00Rx in a model plane I spend 3 years building

[Subculture]

I also use Corona equipment, retofitted into my old Futaba radios, and that works fantastically well too. Are there actually any really bad 2.4ghz sets out there? I know there were some bad 27mhz and 35mhz/40mhz kit.

If you're going to be using the equipment in several models, the Spektrum kit works out cheaper in the long term than many of the cheaper brands, becuase the latter tend to have slightly more expensive receivers. Another good thing about Spektrum transmitters is I found them to be very intuitive to use, unlike some of the cheaper computer sets out there.