ORIGINAL: ATVAlliance
I have a couple of the cheap AR6200's I bought from oomodel. They look IDENTICAL to the ''real deal''. Even down to the stickers on the back of them and their SAT recievers.
I cant say with certainty that they are clones...but assume so because of the following...
1. They dont have the updated firmware. Meaning when you manually test a ''brown out'' condition...the LED doesnt flash...just links back up and stays solid amber/orange.
2. WHY would Spektrum dump a large amount of these RX to a distributor/s to be sold to the public that
That sounds correct.
It's a pretty blatant copyright violation.
At least with the "Orange" RX's there is NO attempt to make them look like Spektrum products.
The other 6ch clones I've purchased at LHS' and local shows also make no attempt at looking or being marketed as Spektrum RX's.
As I mentioned earlier, these have EXACTLY the same circuit boards as the Orange 6ch and both have proven to work exactly the same way, which in this case has been problematic for me... the 6CH's likely have a firmware bug carried over. Some people may have better luck if their firmware code is a different rev but there is no way to tell what you have.