ORIGINAL: vnmsgt
Do you run a spektrum. There failsafe works everytime for me. I do not trust any other. My batteries died on my yesterday and I think once they get to a certain point it turns the failsafe on instead of letting them get too far dead to not operate your servos.
I just run some crappy old thing with a Duratrax fail safe. I will invest in a spektrum though. But we get seriously ripped off on them in the UK. Think I'll be buying mine from the USA as a 'gift'. I was just amazed how tough this thing is, I did the same thing with my crappy HPI Rush and it was mangled! Caught up with it doing circuits of a mini roundabout!