<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><div>I purchased a Vortex EPX and 3300mAhbattery as aChristmas gift for my 7 yr old.After reading the Redcat Racing manuals, my plan tonight wasto set up the steering and throttle set pointsand servo switches before gift wrapping it.</div><div></div><div>I had charged both the 1800 mAh and 3300 mAh I purchasedwith the car. I installed the3300 mAh in the car, pulled the antenae wire through the tube and stood it vertical, then installed 8 new Duracell AA batteries(purchased at Walmart yesterday) in the remote. The remote indicated full charge (both red and green lights were bright), and the car beeped when I turned it on.</div><div></div><div>Things seemed to be going fine as I stood right next to the car (which was on astand)in the garage and made adjustements in the steering and throttle using the controls on the remote control. After a couple of minutes I started to notice that I kept losing connectivity with the car. I kept having to hold the remote closer and closer to get the car to respond. (less than 10 min had passed at this point). With the antenae fully extended on the remote, indicating full battery, and a freshly charged battery pack in the car I could not exceed about 10 inches and it seems to get worse with time.</div><div></div><div>I swapped the 3300mAh battery out and installed the 1800mAh and observed the same problem.Ire-seatedthe "channel one" and "channel two"connectorsin the receiver in the car (also swapped them at one point),re-seated both crystals in the car andremote(also swapped them at one point), removed and reinstalled the 8 AA batteries in the controller, moved to a different area but nothing seemed to help. Each time I would find that after turning it off for a few minutes, I could turn it on and have maybe up to 20 feetof range (sometimes considerably less)and then it wouldreduce to only inches after about2 minutes or so.</div><div></div><div>When you have thereciever within range (a couple of inches)the car runs super. Allcontrols on the remote function as they should (including the stop adjustmnetsand servo switches). It really gets up some speed but you have to hold the car in one hand and the remote in the other to observe this. The battery lights never dim, they are full bright. It doesn't appear to have interference as there is no sporatic action or uncontrolled movements. As soon as you move the remote out of range, the car receiver LED starts to flash and it just sits there.</div><div></div><div>I'm sorry this is so long but I'm a bit paniced with Christmas right around the corner and now I'm not sure what to do about this car (his big gift). I've watched all ofAli's training videos and even calledRedcat earlier yesterday(before I had observed this prolem) just to ask if there was anything special I needed to do tbefore Igift wrap it.

Any thoughts on this would be very appreciated, Thanks!
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