Transmitter Recommendations

[Kris537 1]

Im beggining to get back into the hobby and wanting to know what transmitters people recommend or ones to avoid. Im not looking for anything over £100Gbp mark, and wanting a stock transmitter. A few people have said the Flysky FS-i6x which is within my buget but what about radiolink etc? I just want to keep my options so I dont have to replace the trasmitter. I was looking at the RadioLink T8FB-BT and the Microzone MC8B. Thanks.

[Juggular 5080]

Sticks?  There is nothing wrong with it, I learned ropes with sticks.  The only thing I'll comment is to consider the price of receivers.  

Almost nobody quits at car #1.  So there is the likelihood of adding car #42.  Price of receivers can add up.  If it's $7, ten models would be $70.  If it's $29, it'd be $290 after bloating the fleet to just ten.  

 

 

[Wooders28 4873]

I'd have a look at the features of modern radios, before you decide on 'stock'

Minimum for me, is EPA and multi memory. 

Might be able to pick up a 2nd hand Futaba T4GRS for £100.

[Kris537 1]

Yes looking for something with sticks not the wheel. Forgive my ignorance but what is EPA?

[alvinlwh 7052]

1 hour ago, Kris537 said:

what is EPA

https://www.sodialed.com/rc-settings/end-point-adjustment-epa

 

[Wooders28 4873]

On 10/2/2024 at 9:12 PM, Kris537 said:

what is EPA?

As above End Point Adjustment.

For the steering, usually full steering hits the bump stops, which then stretches the servo saver when it tries to push it further, or if you're running a metal geared servo and a solid servo horn (no saver), it can start to cause issues with high current load, and making the reciever glitchy.

So setting the end point of the servo in each direction, you can set it so at max steering, it just touches the bump stops and no more.

For the throttle, I find it really handy, when my kids want to drive my cars (or there's now)

Imagine if you have an RC car, that will do 100mph, and you give your 3yr old a shot, you'd drop the forward throttle down to 5%, and it would go 5mph on full throttle.  When I've done this with their cars, I set them challenges (drive down the garden, and come back up without crashing, and I'll up the speed 10%).

Modern RC 2.4ghz controllers have so much adjustment these days, it's mind boggling (ABS brake, kind of launch control, telemetry, and can even alter the % of brakes based on the % of the steering...) 

This is the instruction manual for my Sanwa Exzes ZZ,  at first I thought it was the standard multi language instructions, but nope , that sucker is allllll English, 😳