Lamar, so you know, All Day Dan has been hollering "the sky is falling" using outdated material to back his thoughts for quite a while now. His refusal to acknowledge the millions of trouble free flights by thousands and thousands of pilots while using newer technology is nothing short of remarkable. Not saying all of his thoughts/comments are wrong, just looking at the likelihood/potential for them to actually occur, and balancing that against the potential for other failures that rarely occur. If we were flying a manned spaceship, I might be more concerned. Thinking most sport pilots don't need to be at that level. Your call....
Love the concept and style of the "super" switches as well, but not crazy about the design/long term durability prospects of the type switch it uses. It uses something similar to a set of points to make contact, vs. the much better plan of contacts formed by a sliding type switch. If you were using both sides of that switch to supply power to the receiver, you would have some redundancy, and the concern for the type switch would be reduced big time. Those wires easily supported by a simple plastic tie wrap placed an inch or so away from the solder joints. That bundle of wires then much stronger and better able to support themselves like that.
Last, wondering if you saw the pictures at the bottom of the Rcexl switch directions? They show how you can get the power for that switch and the ign. module using the same lead that plugs into the receiver (called a BEC at that point). It amounts to just 2 small solder joints on the board. If you can solder, not difficult at all - and the trouble to do that easily justified. At that point there is no further need for a separate switch or battery to power the ign. module (this would free up one side of the super switch to provide the redundancy I was writing about above, letting you use both switches to power the receiver). As far as the design/functionality of the mod. keep in mind that this module is made by the same company that makes most of the ign. modules in use today. Safe bet they know what they're talking about...
Note that the Rcexl switch case halves are not glued together. The only thing holding them together is the label, which can be easily sliced on one side with a # 11 and repaired with tape when you are done.
Last edited by ahicks; 01-10-2016 at 06:04 AM.