Hi all,
I had an incident today with my ET48.3 that scared the s... out of me.
I was very gently bashing the Truggy at the park with my kid. Doing gentle jumps on the ramp, nothing crazy. The radio suddenly stops responding and the Truggy goes straight (probable 50% throttle) until it gets stuck in a chain link fence (throttle still on). I got there just a few seconds later, removed the body and unplugged the battery to shut it down.
Damage is not too bad considering all things:
I immediately took it home and checked contacts at the Rx. Nothing obvious was discovered.
The problem is I do use that truck regularly in an urban environment and the thought of experiencing a radio control loss again if frightening. I have way to many people / much stuff around me to ignore the danger.
Questions to the forum members:
I had an incident today with my ET48.3 that scared the s... out of me.
I was very gently bashing the Truggy at the park with my kid. Doing gentle jumps on the ramp, nothing crazy. The radio suddenly stops responding and the Truggy goes straight (probable 50% throttle) until it gets stuck in a chain link fence (throttle still on). I got there just a few seconds later, removed the body and unplugged the battery to shut it down.
Damage is not too bad considering all things:
- no human casualties, besides a good sweat
- front left outdrive broke and that is probably it!
I immediately took it home and checked contacts at the Rx. Nothing obvious was discovered.
The problem is I do use that truck regularly in an urban environment and the thought of experiencing a radio control loss again if frightening. I have way to many people / much stuff around me to ignore the danger.
Questions to the forum members:
- How common is this type of incidents?
- Would you "just change the Rx" and get going? (I use a cheap / nevertheless quite good Radiolink RC4GS)
- I know, the "you should have seen it coming with that cheap radio" comment is deserved. I should probably get that Sanwa MT-S I've been eyeing...
- Any other thoughts?