RE: Can Futaba FASST and Spektrum systems peacefully coexist?
Any communications systems that share the same frequencies or wires should deal with Collision Detection (CD) and Collision Prevention (CP). Collision is when two or more transmitters are on the same frequency or wires at the same time, corrupting the information.
As the quantity of transmitters increases, the quantity of collisions increases at a rate that is not linear.
The process of CP is very different for a transmitter that changes frequencies or wires than for one that stays put.
Without knowing if these systems do CD/CP and how they do it, it is not possible to estimate how they will co-exist.
Based on my experience with shared band communications, I assume two things:
[ol][*]They will never co-exist as well as the marketing department says they will. [*]If you have twenty transmitters of multiple brands operating, they will operate less efficiently than if you have two.
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