Spektrum Problems

[Northy]

It wasn't that Ben, your steering still worked, mine didn't, the whole car just shut down

G

[GRIFF55]

Hey G, i had exactly that problem with my car at oz. Rang the very helpful peeps at horizon and they took the set back to check it out for me, no probs since. They said that most don't run a cap on the micro reciever?
I also put the aerial wire as long as poss, protruding through the shell and tough wood, all is well. I also changed the speedo just in case.
Good luck mate.
Hey i never did get those drill bits off you, nevermind, next time

[DCM]

I run the aerial wire as high as possible, it is either voltage or signal loss, one of the two, might be worth giving HH a ring dude.

Oh, nice to finally see ya fella!!

[ben]

Originally Posted by Northy

It wasn't that Ben, your steering still worked, mine didn't, the whole car just shut down

G

No my whole car was shutting down aswell coming off that corner tabletop. And then it just started cutting the motor out.

[Wraggy]

Originally Posted by ben

No my whole car was shutting down aswell coming off that corner tabletop. And then it just started cutting the motor out.

i had the same problem there Ben and i was running 40mhz.had it over the left side of the track 1st round , put a power cap on and then got it on the table top part. cant win !!!!!

[IceMike]

i kinda wonder if there was sumat screwin wit the signals somewhere in that mountain

[super__dan]

Chris Long had some issues too this weekend, but he (and other people I've seen) had the aerial really low down. I think that becasue Spektrum is so brilliant we often think it's literally perfect and can tuck the aerial wire away anyway. I had mine wrapped round on the chassis on the X6 and once at Southport and annoyingly at the start of the A at South Shields it wouldn't start. I've made a little lexan mount to lift the areial in the car (though not outside the shell) and all went well at Tally.

In my X5 I have the micro receiver at the back and route the aerial up the shock tower under the shell, never once had an issue in that. I have runs caps from day 1 in both cars and ran 7.2V servos.

Actually didn't Tom have some issues with his MRT bug until he moved it?

[Cockerill]

Yeh, when I had it right next to he receiver it had loads of interference, is fine now its on top of the servo tho

[ben]

Originally Posted by Wraggy

i had the same problem there Ben and i was running 40mhz.had it over the left side of the track 1st round , put a power cap on and then got it on the table top part. cant win !!!!!

Ooooops bit of confusion. I was on about the south shields regional lol. My cars have run without a glitch at talywain

[RogerM]

I have had similar issues once in my 2wd G' ....... When I found the problem I felt such a prat for not noticing earlier ...... the fan wires on the speedo ... one had broken at the solder joint and in some cases was breaking / making contact and arcing .... the voltage spike was tripping out the Rx.

Was a Nosram speedo too so worth a careful look as you can't see the solder connections under the sticker!!!