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[rcfred]

Barrie, you are right. 100mWatts is the limit in the UK but in the USA the limit is 1Watt. Not that the American sets are that high but they may be over 100mW. For more details go to - http://www.ukrcc.org


Fred

[justboatonic]

Fergot to mention although it is intimated in my diatribe, this applies to BRUSHED type motors,no experience of brushless or inrunners or outrunners yet, but the fact that you have to generate 3phase to control them may or not affect the receivers. Probably too small to matter, but for brushed motors how much does three 100V ceramics from Maplin cost?

I've been looking into brushless motors for electric flight. All the info I've found is that suppression isnt required for these motors.

As for the 2.4Ghz sets, like any new technology, I'd be inclined not to rush out and buy a new set just yet. If you can, hang fire and see what new additions are made to the fairly basic 2.4Ghz transmitter set ups. But that's just my opinion!

[red181]

I have rc helicopters, and the spektrum kit (tx and rx) is as previuosly mentioned standard on an eflite blade cx2. I just picked up a tx (4channel, with additional proportional knob), and 6 ch rx for such a heli for £15.00 on fleabay, admittadly that was cheap, but there are a couple on there now . Its a pretty basic piec of kit, but perfect for my use as I only want 1 extra channel, and my local lake attracts loads of kids with their 27mhz and 40 mhz boats, so I have no interference worries, stubby aerial, only 4 aa batteries in the tx, just got to keep the rx nice and dry!

[jinks8]

I have a Spektrum DX7 2,4 a good bit of kit i think just go to the lake turn boat  tran;s boat in to water and i am a happy chappy have ten boats all in all just 1or<a href="http://s149.photobucket.com/albums/s78/jinks8/?action=view&current=047SmallWinCE2.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s78/jinks8/047SmallWinCE2.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket">[/url]2

[wideawake]

Hi

I can't imagine that the Spektrum Pmdevlin refers to is a DX6 or DX7. I bought a DX6 recently on ebay and they are fetching around £100 AFAICS.   It's certainly not basic by any means.  Preset and programmable mixes, dual rates, exponential function, adjustable servo travel, 10 model memories etc etc

BTW I bought mine for use in slow speed scale models but i've heard the odd rumour that some people are having problems with 2.4 GHz in models which generate lots of spray.   It makes sense in principle, given the tendency of water molecules to absorb microwave radiation, but has any one actually had problems in parctice?

BTW again.  I should add that Horizon advise that the DX6 shouldn't be used in boats at all.

cheers

Guy

[jinks8]

One off our club members had a problem with the DX6 but he got his from the good old US of A In parts off the lake it would hit a dead spot  got his self a DX7 from UK had no prob's after that.He runs fast electric. The fastest boat i have is a club 500 i will say I have not had  trouble with my set 

[offshore1987]

This is probs the noob question of the year  Im thinkin of gettin a 2.4 but is the dx6 really ok? I dont want to spend loads of money on a 2.4 atm because of the lack of 3 way switchs, but iv found a place in the UK that is sellin the dx6 for £50 and im thinkin it might be worth gettin one for alittle while ( the lake i use it an open water )

Im not sure if they are £50 else where il have alittle look into that, but im guessin its worth a try with one?

all the best

[victorian]

2.4Ghz for £70! Look here http://www.modelsinmotion.co.uk/product.asp?productid=26029&catCode=598&tamiya=0.

Trouble is it's an amazing scale model and you won't want to break it up to get the radio out. I saw one on Saturday and could not believe the performance. It has 2 true servos and I presume one direction motor control. I asked the guy (at Leamington MRC show) if the radio was a true superhet or broadband like many other toys and he showed me the tx which took a couple of seconds to register was 2.4Ghz. He said he paid £60 for it.

Absolutely ideal for those aircraft carrier flying off projects! But also for small R/C boats. Even includes Lipo battery and motor. How the world is changing.

[david.harrison]

Guys, 50V ceramics are perfectly good enough. You can also use transient voltage suppressors across the motor. these like back-back fast zener diodes that clamp at their rated voltage. e.g 15V for a 12V system. Use these AS WELL as the capacitors, not instead of.

I've also written an extensive article on RFI suppression and I sell all the parts, ferrite beads etc.  My home page is

My RFI Suppression article is at :

Link Dead

I also make and sell some very advanced sound modules. take a look at :


Link Dead

[tigertiger]

I've also written an extensive article on RFI suppression and I sell all the parts, ferrite beads etc.  My home page is

My RFI Suppression article is at :


I also make and sell some very advanced sound modules. take a look at :

 

***All three links in the post redirected to online casinos***
David,
This leads to two conclustions.
Either you have been hacked or you are a spammer. I am almost certain it is a hack.

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[Andyn]

Probably because this thread is 15 years old, the domain names have long since been sold off to a company that uses dead links to reroute to dodgy sites…