Originally Posted by
speedracerntrixie
Matt, all good points. Obviously you are someone with some knowledge on the subject. My view is that reduced range would also be a reduction in reliability.
Give anybody enough rope and they can hang themselves :-)
For reliability, the question for me would be does the aluminum introduce any sort of noise to the signal. If the signal is simply dampened/attenuated by the aluminum, then I think your reliable until the signal gets too weak. If you have some sort of RSSI you can measure that easily. I don't have the guts of a receiver ripped apart here, but it would be interesting to know if they keep track of the error rate of the incoming signal and if that is something that could be tapped into with a scope. If you could do an A-B comparison of the error rates with/ without the aluminum at range for an RC airplane, I think that would give you some sort of "confidence level" on what the reliability would be...
hmmm.....