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I found this on the Mato site, hopefully some people will find this useful some time.



Some of the pictures are a bit puzzling, so the familiar Rx image with the labels are shown below (the thing at lower right is maybe supposed to be the smoker on/off switch location?) One of the the differences in the 2.4 Rx vs the Rx18 are that there is no volume control input. Not sure why they'd do away with that since the volume you get is the one you're stuck with?! Also instead of the three prong receiver plug going to a seperate receiver card, it goes to the bind switch and cable, that allows you to bind the Rx with your transmitter.

Marc,

The picture you have for the HL 2.4Ghz MFU is version 2 which has the volume control and the smoker on/off moved to the radio itself and hence it is deleted from the MFU/tank itself.

MichaelC.

Hey thanks Mark..that will come in handy for anyone using the Gen2 2.4 ...
so just an added FYI for the people who have Gen 3s ...no more sound or smoke connector on the RX...those now are controlled from the TX

ALPHA

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.

It will also work with a diode flash for the main gun rather then the HIFU.

This is so useful to me in my next project, thanks for posting the clear pictures and explanation, great stuff.