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Old 12-28-2008 | 01:45 AM
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Crap, if I had to rebind every sensor on one of the chillers Trane makes, everytime I set an offset for a sensor or actuator, I'd be there all day long and still have to return to finish it off. On some of our equipment, we bind it once to identify the part and then continuously update the input and output value and never have to rebind anything. If we had to do that, all our customers would remove our chillers and buy something else.
Getting back to 2.4 gig systems, I still fly 72 MHZ, for cost reasons, but someday 2.4 will be the only thing avaliable, and yes it will expand into the 3+ gig spectrum as new and improved, with that said, I fly airtronics right now because of features and it talks to all my receivers I have right now. I will wait to see what negative comments come from airtronics 2.4 system, I originally started flying with futaba systems, conquest(that dates my age), I went to Hitec for years with no issues, then I went to JR for a few more, till I realized it weighed a ton and had poor programing menu's, so I bought a RD8000 and as luck would have it, they came out with the RDS8000 about 1 month later. But I will wait till I get more resounding proof or piece of mind that it will have aqll the bugs worked out before I stick it in one of my planes. I don't like ARF's too much, so I build my own or kits, nothing is more gut wrenching than losing a plane due to radio issues. Sure it happens to 72 MHZ as well, but the # of "free upgrades" done to a spectrum radio by the manufacture after a major loss doesn't make me feel warm and fuzzy about it.
Just my 2 cents
And Oh yes, I must be one of the old guru's dancing around your spectrum radio chanting "evil spirit radio", at the ripe age of 32, if some of you see it that way. I'm not against progress in technology, but weary to dump tons of money into a system that has apparent issues.