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Old 07-06-2010
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Originally Posted by Aran View Post
well every crystal has a certain frequency and they have to match to establish the link between the car and controller, otherwise it wont work.

so for example, a yellow crystal in the transmitter will have to have a yellow crystal in the receiver.

also if some else is running the same crystal it may interfere with your cars controls, but you can get a 2.4ghz radio set that have will search for a unique code so no interference
2.4 GHz radio systems have really come down in price, they start at £55 so are only £15 more than 27/40MHz systems. As Aran already said, you don't need to bother with crystals and less chance of inteference.
Here are some good ones:
http://www.modelsport.co.uk/?CallFun...n&ItemID=34641
http://www.jespares.com/electric-mod...ategory_id=504
http://www.apexmodels.com/gbu0-prodshow/LRP87010.html
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