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Too New Radio Or not Too new radio

Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2016 1:51 pm
by KevG
Well I have been contemplating going Taranis for weeks now and just cant quite pull the trigger,

why I wanted to go down that route was for the diversity rx's most notably the d4r/x4r rx's for the mini quads, I feel the Spektrum rx's antenna just don't clear the airframe well enough,

well yesterday I was looking around another forum and came across a post for this

https://www.spektrumrc.com/Products/Def ... ID=SPM4648

and thought its out at the end of Jan ish, I will give that a go,

posted up on FB about Spektrum getting their act together slowly and got a reply to say well Lemon-Rx have one of those, ;) curious, a bit more digging and I found this.

http://www.lemon-rx.com/shop/index.php? ... uct_id=135

time for an order, found a UK supplier and only $3 more expensive than Lemon direct....Bonus.

and it got here this morning, yesterday at 14.35 ordered, 15.00 confirmed, 15.05 shipped,

dinner time in work consisted of making a paperclip bracket and zip ties and some electrical tape and low and behold its fitted, just need to cover it in heatshrink in da house later.
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So long and short of it, Taranis will have to wait until I find out if this Lemon Sat is any good if it is then I cant se me changing as I like the feel and function of the Spektrum, in particular the DX8 that I have.

Re: Too New Radio Or not Too new radio

Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2016 9:06 pm
by Stambo
Only thing I can see is that you have the antennas a bit close to the video rx.
I like to put them as far apart as I can.

The Taranis is an awesome radio, I love mine.
Voice alerts and telemetry, for FPV it is all I will ever need.

Re: Too New Radio Or not Too new radio

Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2016 9:34 pm
by Lee
I got the Taranis a couple of weeks ago as I told you on skype.
The big deal for me is the telemetry, and the Sbus rx is so much faster than standard RXs.
DSMX 11ms, X4R 5ms :)
And the voice alerts are great.
I have my Helis on my DX8, and my FPV models, on the Taranis.

Re: Too New Radio Or not Too new radio

Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2016 11:08 pm
by Graham Lawrie
I use the Lemon RX on my Fossil Kev when i did away using a spektrum receiver to just a satellite:)

Re: Too New Radio Or not Too new radio

Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 8:17 am
by KevG
Stambo wrote:Only thing I can see is that you have the antennas a bit close to the video rx.
I like to put them as far apart as I can.

The Taranis is an awesome radio, I love mine.
Voice alerts and telemetry, for FPV it is all I will ever need.
I thought about that Stambo but a few do it now. The Impulse rc Alien has the mount for antennae as I have done and it eyes to work. Time will tell I suppose

Re: Too New Radio Or not Too new radio

Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 8:22 am
by KevG
Graham Lawrie wrote:I use the Lemon RX on my Fossil Kev when i did away using a spektrum receiver to just a satellite:)
I have a few lemon rx now I like their ppm 8 channel with satellite and that seemed to work well

Re: Too New Radio Or not Too new radio

Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2016 12:03 am
by Graham Lawrie
Yup I agree, very good and very cheap:)