TMoore
rrProfessor
Location: Cookeville, TN
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| What you quoted is not opinion, simple facts of the system. Perhaps you meant to quote my assessment of the failsafe solution.
Failsafe is not about how the system operates under normal conditions; it's all about the time something goes wrong. That's when you'll find out what the failsafe solution really means.
Are you willing to turn off your tx and find out what happens? If you feel so strongly that the system is safe, go for it and please let us know how it turns out.
With regards to CCPM setup, again, simple fact of how the radio works. It is what it is and I did not say it was good or bad. Notice I said, "A few tidbits..." and then listed facts.
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You turn off your TX John. I don't want to turn off mine and I think it's somewhat moronic to suggest that. Do you honestly think you can turn off a DX and just watch the model sit there and go about its merry way while you scratch your ass in amazement? I don't want to be there either. The bottom line is that when sh*t goes wrong, models crash. I've seen it too many times with a lot of different equipment and failsafe almost always means dick.
Airwolf has it right. Failsafe is no real answer and while John may diasgree with Sanwa's implementation of it, that is his choice. So far, I have had no issues. When either the TX or the RX battery fails, the model will crash. There isn't any good way to stop that. Certainly not that I've found. I had a new EVO 90 go in running full PCM with failsafe set and the heli still dove to the ground when faced with radio interference. Failsafe doesn't work all the time. Personally, I like the fact that the RD using hopping technology. I think Sanwa's choice of this modulation scheme is a good one and provides a certain level of security of its own, maybe even safer than failsafe.
How many of those socalled secure failsafe equipped radios have crashed due to power issues? Did failsafe protect the users or the models? I think that most of them crashed and went boom when the power ran out.
Another issue is the constant harping about the RDS' CCPM functions. They are what they are. If you don't like them, don't buy the radio. There is not a single CCPM scheme that I have unable to make either the Stylus or the RD series do. Just because the radio doesn't work like another radio doesn't mean that is automatically a poor implementation. There are a lot of things that I don't like about a lot of radios but by and large there are a lot of good ones on the market and I spend a lot of my time helping folks to get the best out what they have in their hands and not necessarily telling them that what they bought isn't good enough.
There are still folks that can't get their 7 channels to work with gyros and governors and this is very much of a non issue with the RD series but no one seems to point that out because negative sounds spicier and flashier. With the RD, I don't need to push two buttons at the same time just to change models, power on and off or push those same two buttons to just get into the menus. I don't need a special TX case because the antenna folds up inside the Transmitters own space and still uses standard size TX cases.
There are a lot of features that the RD has but in the end I thought this thread was about latency and speed of the system. In that context, the RD acquits itself quite well, espcially at its price point and that's my opinion which the numbers seem to back up.
TM
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