Thvts_Nvte
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So I have many a question about Transmitters.
Back about 10 years ago, when I had several Tamiya's a Crawler, a MST Drift car and a couple bashers I rocked Spektrum. I believe it was just a DX3S, and I used it for everything. It was solid, comfortable and idk it just worked. 2.4ghz controllers where still kind of new I guess and there wasn't really a huge market for aftermarket controllers. It felt like you either had a DX3, or if you had a decent job you had like a Futaba or something bonkers.
Well, on top of eyeing down some older nitro touring cars I would want them to be brought into the 2.4ghz age, I also noticed that when I took my Losi Mini-B out that I have a transmitter for each one of my 4 cars. And I do like my Traxxas TQi's the most, the new design is top notch and I'm sure I could use these all across the board I would like to have something a bit more programmable when it comes to fail safes on the nitro side. Cause even the Traxxas built in one is less than stellar.
So I started doing some research again and found myself down the Spektrum rabbit hole and I'm pretty oh I don't know, underwhelmed yet overwhelmed?
The DX6 Rugged looks the tits - but it seems Spektrum listened to absolutely none of the concerns or voices of the people using the old DX5 Rugged and you pay extra for their marketing of a rugged device that's not actually rugged and one that's functionally identical and less usable than their non-rugged and cheaper DX6. So, maybe this isn't the best option for me.
I hear FlySky and Radiolink's name get thrown around a lot. And they are cheap, but they also look cheap. I'm perfectly okay with spending a bit of money on something that feels a bit more premium. It's kind of like you're getting married to these things for a few years it seems like. So I saw I can get one of the older FlySky Noble NB4+ for about the same cost with a receiver. Those look like they feel premium, plus I like the screen and rechargeable-ness. I can't tell you the amount of AA's I've killed by accidentally leaving a radio on for a week doing nothing.
Radiolinks offerings don't seem to scream out to me, and I don't really seem all that attracted to anything that Futaba or Sanwa are offering in this price range, if I had the money I think I would do the M17 but that's a bit more than I'm willing to justify for just general bashers at this time. So, I suppose what are yalls thoughts and opinions on the matter? I'm interested to hear what there is to hear. I don't really even need 4 channel capable. Just 3. But it seems like you don't really get any super nice options until you get into the 4+ channel capable area. And that's totally okay.
At the end of the day I might just not get anything and actually start my slash revival build I keep telling myself I'm going to do. So, who the fiddlesticks knows?
Back about 10 years ago, when I had several Tamiya's a Crawler, a MST Drift car and a couple bashers I rocked Spektrum. I believe it was just a DX3S, and I used it for everything. It was solid, comfortable and idk it just worked. 2.4ghz controllers where still kind of new I guess and there wasn't really a huge market for aftermarket controllers. It felt like you either had a DX3, or if you had a decent job you had like a Futaba or something bonkers.
Well, on top of eyeing down some older nitro touring cars I would want them to be brought into the 2.4ghz age, I also noticed that when I took my Losi Mini-B out that I have a transmitter for each one of my 4 cars. And I do like my Traxxas TQi's the most, the new design is top notch and I'm sure I could use these all across the board I would like to have something a bit more programmable when it comes to fail safes on the nitro side. Cause even the Traxxas built in one is less than stellar.
So I started doing some research again and found myself down the Spektrum rabbit hole and I'm pretty oh I don't know, underwhelmed yet overwhelmed?
The DX6 Rugged looks the tits - but it seems Spektrum listened to absolutely none of the concerns or voices of the people using the old DX5 Rugged and you pay extra for their marketing of a rugged device that's not actually rugged and one that's functionally identical and less usable than their non-rugged and cheaper DX6. So, maybe this isn't the best option for me.
I hear FlySky and Radiolink's name get thrown around a lot. And they are cheap, but they also look cheap. I'm perfectly okay with spending a bit of money on something that feels a bit more premium. It's kind of like you're getting married to these things for a few years it seems like. So I saw I can get one of the older FlySky Noble NB4+ for about the same cost with a receiver. Those look like they feel premium, plus I like the screen and rechargeable-ness. I can't tell you the amount of AA's I've killed by accidentally leaving a radio on for a week doing nothing.
Radiolinks offerings don't seem to scream out to me, and I don't really seem all that attracted to anything that Futaba or Sanwa are offering in this price range, if I had the money I think I would do the M17 but that's a bit more than I'm willing to justify for just general bashers at this time. So, I suppose what are yalls thoughts and opinions on the matter? I'm interested to hear what there is to hear. I don't really even need 4 channel capable. Just 3. But it seems like you don't really get any super nice options until you get into the 4+ channel capable area. And that's totally okay.
At the end of the day I might just not get anything and actually start my slash revival build I keep telling myself I'm going to do. So, who the fiddlesticks knows?
