Well, I heard back from SkyFail when I sent a email inquireing abot purchasing a potentiometer from them to replace my switch in my TX.

Good news is they said they would give me the part for free but I have to pay for shipping. I thought this was a great deal and decent customer service ?

The last email they sent;


" Hello Jeff,

if you dont have account of EMS, you need to pay for the shipping fee about $35 and bank fee about $20.

Kind regard "


My return email;


" WHAT ?

Listen, I buy parts from HK,China frequently and have small parts shipped for just a couple dollars and you think I'm going to pay $55.00 ?

I'll throw my TX in the trash befor I spend another $55.00 on this piece of shiz.

F**K YOU ! "

So needless to say I'm off to radio shack and if this doesn't fix it I'm gonna smash it w/a hammer. :grrrrrr::grrrrrr:

Bummer mang. 55 bucks is just nutz.

HAHAHAHA, thanks Jeff, I needed the laugh. I would drop hobbypartz a line and see if they can get the part for you, even though you did not get the radio from them...

RadioShack
or just use one out of an old junk Tx
Everyone has old radios sitting arround.

its a simple fix.

Scavaging a part from a old AM/FM radio isn't a bad idea if I strike out a RadioShiz ?

James, May your next Tootsie Roll be a cat turd in a wrapper..

Man, you only want the best for me huh. Glad I got that restraining order.

haha, great email. Wonder why it costs so dang much to send a little potentiometer?

I have the real cheap and nasty 2 chanenel FlySky radio and the same 3 channel as in this thread but from Hobbyking. Seems to work fine but I found a very odd issue with it. It can actually control multiple Rx's at once. Yep, thats right. I had three receiver on the bench, each with a battery and one servo plugged in and they were all moving in unison. Crazy stuff. So if you finish playing with one of your cars and change over to another but forget to switch the first one off they will both move together. Try it and see. It's pretty funny.

Also one thing that is very well documented is the fact that Exponential setting on these radios do nothing. I have tried and it just does nothing.

When I go to the track I have usually 4 RC's all plugged in and ready to go, I'll drive one till it hits LVC then switch models on the TX(Spektrum) to the next and drive it and so on without ever walking downstairs.
It would be funny to see, driving 3 or 4 RC's around the track in unison.

Nothing would surprise me with these cheap damn things. Def one of my not so hot RC decisions was buying mine.

well i noticed with mine that when i steer quickly from full left to right the trottle will spaz a little. i don't even have my finger near the throttle and the motor just chrips every now and then. its not a bother, but its also not good.

Expo is borked, but some guys over at rctech figured out what you need to reprogram it.
http://www.newark.com/jsp/search/pro...sp?SKU=51R7448

so a fix should be available at some point.

Sounds good. Hopefully it's an easy and cheap fix. I really like the expo setting. When doing high speed runs I really like having the ability to tame down the steering around the center. Really helps with over-correcting.

I do like this radio and for the price it's a winner but I will only use it with my lesser models (slower and cheaper ones). I feel that I am able to control my RCs better with my Spektrum radios mainly due to expo setting but also the DX3S and DX3R just feel better in my hand. Still I think that they did very well for the first effort and when they do the next model I think they will iron out a lot of little bugs that are present now.

The Company I bought mine from, their web page stated this was the 3rd version ?

they're back in stock at hobbyking:yes:

thank God im not haven anay of these problems......
it looks like sofar i have been lucky ive been usen it with 2 trucks about every day now.
Its the only 2.4Ghz tx i have so i hope it stays that way...................