Frank Skilbeck Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 Club has bought 3 new Futaba 2.4 6EX sets and buddy leads for the club trainers, intent was to use these as masters with old 35 sets as slaves, but we can't do the square to round so that is out of the window. Anyway we tried buddying two sets again today, we couldn't use these sets together but tried them with some other sets in the club, neither of the new Tx's would act as a master but would slave to another 2.4 6 EX and 35 6EX so this showed the lead was OK. We got the 3rd set out of the box tonight and set it up as a master but the other Tx's wouldn't slave to it. Note we have set trainer to on and when we hold the trainer toggle the mater Tx stops working but control is not transfered to the slave Tx, release the toggle and control is restored. We are either doing something very stupid (but managed at the field to set up two other Tx's as masters with no problems) or we have a batch of Tx's which are faulty and don't transfer control to the slave set when the trainer button is held. They are all going back to the model shop so they can check them out, most frustrating. We are following the manual instructions to the letter and had no problems using some older Tx's as the master, have Futaba changed something or have we got a faulty batch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hickman Posted June 15, 2009 Share Posted June 15, 2009 Frank I have two 6ex sets, one 2.4 the other 35MHz, and have used both as master & slave to each other, The main problem I found was with the 35MHz as master using a PCM RX. It would appear that both master & slave MUST be using PPM. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Skilbeck Posted June 27, 2009 Author Share Posted June 27, 2009 Just to close this out, all three sets taken back to shop, they couldn't get them to buddy so sent them to Ripmax who confirmed all 3 sets were faulty and new boards will be fitted. Not sure if this was a coincidence or whether there is a batch, note the problem only shows up if the Tx is used as a master Tx, they work fine as the mainTx or as a slave Tx, but if you buddy another Tx to them control is not transferred to the buddy Tx. Might be a few more out there but you would never know unless you were trying to use it as the master. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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