ORIGINAL: stek79
Well said Raven! I didn't consider the price factor of a regulator! Anyhow, even if it was cheap, personally I don't like to add other components to a critical system , like the link battery - switch - receiver.
Just for information, I've asked in the Futaba support forum whether the 149DP receiver has a built in voltage regulator, as I read here on RCU...
Well, the reply is that it is! The problem of a higher voltage are definitely servos, not receiver. Link to my question:
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_3765553/tm.htm
very nice, don't you think?
Very nice. The reason it doesn't regulate the servos is because it's easy to implement a very basic (less than 1Amp) regulator to the RX circuit for next to nothing (I could make one for under $2). To build in a regulator that supported the maximum amount and max load of servos the regulator would cost a lot more and that RX would get bulky and hot. All the same, you get a neat feature albeit not all inclusive.
I don't think Hitec gear has that feature, I may ask them.