lposter wrote:Is the HL/Taigen 2.4GHz any better than the old RX18? As in, is it beeter at controlling the tank, more responsive, whatever?
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They are like night and day. 2.4 gig is much better, to me. There is no loss of signal and the distance is pretty large, like 50 to 75 feet - maybe longer for some people depending where you are. I would have quit the hobby long ago if not for the 2.4 ghz, i found the old RX18 maddening and the TK01 was just terrible junk. After i quit slapping my receivers to get the batteries out, and stopped dropping them (the y don't like that one bit, if you get a loss of function on one function, the Tx is your first culprit) i got a lot more life out of them.
A good thing about 2.4 ghz Tx is you can just remove the cover and swap parts, the things that control it are modules that plug and unplug. So if i lose a functon on a 2.4 Tx, i keep the good modules from it for swapping on other transmitters later. I fixed one transmitter that was bad, out of the box this way - took two bad Tx and made one good one. If you lose a function, you can swap a module from another Tx you know is good...which you can't do with an Rx18.
