I am a long time customer of yours and I’ve been away from the hobby for a few years taking care of life stuff.  Then of course Covid and the great chip shortage happened.  You guys have been offline out of inventory for 2-3 years now?  I recently saw your web page that was there before your new relaunching soon page that is there now.  You said you bought a drone company or large application drone part producing company and with the supply chain shortage you decided not to produce RC equipment to feed the other business.  I guess that makes good business sense, but you kinda left us out to dry.   Additionally you will no longer honor your lifetime warranty you promised on the 8 and 10 channel receivers, of which I have 12 of and you can no longer repair them either?   

Why in the heck would I continue to buy your equipment when you are discontinuing some and not able to service your own products? Producing a limited line of products you can’t even keep in stock. Are you guys gonna be an RC receiver company or not?  You had that forum where you talked about some new fancy Transmitter you were going to be producing… WTH happened with that?   Why should I believe your web page that you are coming back in early 2024 with a whole new line of products now that I’m sitting on a pile of old non serviceable products?   I liked you radio systems a lot but how can you expect to grow your brand if you periodically disappear, shut off, or discontinue what you put out there?  Maybe you should just stick to what drives you, $$$$ and stop jerking us modelers around.

Jim,

I observed yesterday a new and different behavior when binding a Nano Rx to an XPS Futaba transmitter module in my Futaba 9C transmitter.

I configured the Nano for binding with its LED blinking fast.  Then I turned on the transmitter while holding the PROG button.  When I released the PROG button the bind did not occur.  At the time I had the transmitter located about two or three feet from the Nano Rx.  It finally completed the binding when I moved the transmitter antenna to within two inches of the Nano.

I have a second Futaba Tx module and I put it in the same transmitter body and repeated the test with the same Nano Rx.  The binding process completed immediately with the Nano even when the transmitter was several feet away.

After performing another "two-inch" bind with the suspect transmitter module, I performed a range test with the program button pressed for low power and went more than 150 feet away without any loss of control.

In my experience, XPS transmitter modules (both Futaba and JR) seemed to always successfully bind with XPS receivers when located several feet away.  This working distance is typical during bench testing and setup.

What I have now is a transmitter module that won't bind with a receiver until it is located two inches or closer.  This same transmitter module and receiver pair delivers good range in a range test.

I'm grounding the transmitter module, and in the meantime kindly want your opinion about it.

Thank you,

Paul

P.S.  Just opened the module and checked the u.FL connection - it was seated well on the internal RF module

Jim,

Wishing you and your family a new year 2024 full of love, humor and success.

Also looking forward to the new and interesting equipment XPS brings this year.

Paul

XPS,

When I bind a Nano Rx to an XPS transmitter module in my Taranis transmitter, does it care which "model" entry is active in the Taranis?

If I bind a receiver to airplane A, then bind the same receiver to airplane B, it is bound to airplane B, right?

So, I think that a model (say airplane A) can be bound to multiple receivers, but one receiver cannot be bound to multiple transmitters.

Is that correct?

thanks,

Paul

I'm using a G45 with RCXcel ignition.  I have a hose clamp on the spark plug connection.  The ignition module is in front of the firewall, and about 10-12" ahead of the nano.  The throttle connection is via nyrod.

I'm using Frsky with the appropriate XPS TX module.  The throttle is set to channel 1.  When I start the engine, the throttle servo oscillates and kills the engine in short order.

I'm wondering if I can move all the servos up one channel and leave channel 1 vacant - would the interference follow and move on to the next channel or just stay on #1?

I got to wondering about this since my buddy had the same setup but using Futaba - his ailerons were getting hit (Futaba is A-E-T-R).  His solution was a satellite Rx moved up into the center section of the top wing with a separate battery.  Both of us have the ignition on a separate battery.

I've benn on of the hobby for several years. Having just retired, I'm thinking about flying again. Does the XPS transmitter module work with the TX16 to allow the full 16 channels? I see some comments about having to use PPM mode and only having 8 channels available. Thanks!

Jim i need an antenna for the rfu.
don

Jim

What is a maximum power output for 2.4GHz control devices by FCC ruling ?

100 mW ?
1 W (1000mW)?

Your modules got power settings to go with local regulations

I am asking because there is a bunch of new systems running LoRa or other words ELRS with power up to 1W
Is that different then STD DMSS system to go with elevated output?
Does HAM license covers the 2.4GHz band?
I am little confused because these ExpressLRS modules do not have FCC stickers

Thanks
Mike

Hi Jim

Any chance to see your new web site soon?
Do you still do upgrade services for for your iconic equipment.
I am still using it with great confidence 
I would love to have your current email address
I got some pieces to upgrade

Mike
aka SMYK

Hello,
Is the X16 available and if so, how can I place an order?

Thank You