Originally Posted by
pilotpete2
The traditional two battery and switch setup has one safety drawback (OK, glow engines too) If power to the receiver is lost due to a bad connection in the battery or switch harness. No matter what the fail safe setting the receiver provides, the engine will continue at whatever power setting in affect at the time the power to the receiver was lost.
In an IBEC setup, if power to the receiver is lost for any reason, the engine quits immediately instead of continuing at whatever the throttle setting was at the moment the power was lost.
Pete
Good point I hadn't thought of that. That's what i love about these forums, people always come up with ideas you may not have thought of!
I guess the best method would be to use an IBEC setup with dual receiver batteries and switches?
I use two receiver batteries and two switches now on receiver and one for ignition alone.
I know there will be somebody that will say "what if the receiver fails do you have another?" or something of that nature, but I'm just trying to brainstorm the best approach without going overboard.