ORIGINAL: RCKen
I absolutely agree. And like I said in my previous post I think that Spektrum should include a bigger battery with this radio. But I don't consider the reboot as something bad about the radio as the original post asked. I consider as something that needs to be done in operating the radio. For all us "old farts" it just means that we need to shift what we know about monitoring the radio battery and quitting at a higher voltage than we would have before the Spectrums came out. But as people learn they need to cared for in a slightly different way it's not going to be an issue any longer.
Ken
Actually.. I think the best solution would be for Spektrm to make the DX-7 receivers operate off of TWO battery packs!
A 4.8 V pack just to maintain the recievers connectivity to the transmitter, and a second pack of whatever voltage nessessary to operate all your gear.
the amount of juice used to maintain connectivity is near negligable.. a fully charged pack could last for a week (maybe ).
This would eliminate 99% of the "loss of control" tragedies (not that there are actually that many to begin with) from the DX-7.
Another idea might be to use exclusively 5 cell packs.. even a "discharged" battery has some residual charge left on it.. .5 V ?
so even if your pack is more or less discharged there is still enough juice to maintain the connectivity between TX and RX.
This solution will cause problems with some mechanical retract servos that can not deal with 6 V.. thats why I think the first idea is best.
Rick