Adding new Receiver to Heng Long v6.0 board

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Adding new Receiver to Heng Long v6.0 board

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I was thinking that at some point in the future I might want to change from the supplied plasticky Transmitter to my multi channel Futaba which I use for all my r/c boats.

Daft question as always - can a Futaba receiver be installed into the Tank, if so how does it connect up. I am looking at the circuitry documented in the User Guide and cannot see how the connection is made if indeed it can


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As far as I know you can not use a different TX/RX with the 6.0
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As Max said,

it's not possible.

The V6 boards and the previous 2.4Ghz boards combine the rx, speed controllers and other functions into one board.

To use a normal rx you'd need to replace the entire board with something like a Clark board or one of the other aftermarket boards to keep similar functionality.
Alternatively you could fit separate escs, sound unit, servos, switches etc which you may be familiar with from your boats but it would all take up much more space and wouldn't have an in built infra red battle system.
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Thats a shame but thanks for the replies

Seems to me people have to hope that their transmitters as supplied do not fail - being new to the hobby I dont know if this is a frequent occurrence or not


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Be very careful. The desire to begin improving your tanks electronics leads to a fall down into the rabbit hole. We’ll see you down there :wave:
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BlueWotsit57 wrote:Thats a shame but thanks for the replies

Seems to me people have to hope that their transmitters as supplied do not fail - being new to the hobby I dont know if this is a frequent occurrence or not


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They seem to be like most electronics.
They'll either fail more or less immediately or keep going for years.
Luckily it's not too expensive to replace if it fails outside of any warranty period but if it does go then it's an incentive to upgrade.
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