Well interesting seems to be two factions here consisting of the Volt/watch devotees and the loaded voltmeter adherants.

Oh man I know I shouldn't but times they are a changing and there is yet even a third option these days and this will certainly get the hate mail going.

Well been using the Hitec 2.4 system for a few years now and I use nothing but this system, I think just over fifty receivers.

Now every time I go flying which is pretty much every day it seems I don,t need those blinky things (never much cared for them and never bought one either, but I did survive) and my trusty old loaded volt meters (they pretty much ended up on a dusty self). Don,t think I,ve even gotten a meter out at the field in the last year and then it was for someone else.

What I do is simply turn my airplane and transmitter on and like magic the voltage for not only the transmitter is displayed in big numbers but the voltage in the airplane also. Hmm it can be in the air or on the ground heck even in the truck does not seem to matter. Guess what, this is a real time actual loaded voltage check, heck can even grab a control surface and stall it if I want and watch it go down.

I have pretty much given up carrying a loaded voltmeter and heck that feels almost as good as the revelation that 2.4 provided when it offered freedom from the tyranny of the 'Frequency board'.


John