Pistol grip radio for Mountain Rider (Mountaineer)

[soze]

Just bought a Mountain Rider, and I'm not very fond of stick radios.

I've been reading around and it seems a decent pistol grip that I can use to control the Mountain Rider 3-speed is the FlySky GT3C when hacked?

I'd just like to know how the hacked version of this radio is for the Mountain Rider/Bruiser 3-speed.

I'm reading the hack can do a lot more too, but I haven't gotten that far into researching the GT3C yet.

 

[cartronicshn]

The gt3c radio once it's hacked can shift the Tamiya truck no problem. depending on the receiver you choose, you can have up to 8 channels if I recall correctly, I have 12 of my cars hooked up to 2 of these radios, and they work great.

 

[OSRC]

My hacked GT3B does just fine. Great radio, but the hack takes a little geek love to get used to. A Traxxas Summit TQ4 radio will work as well with a bit of tinkering.

 

[Raman]

I use a Futaba 4PK with my Bruiser. I assigned channel 3 to the dial and set it to 3 position, -90, 0, + 90 and reduced the end points (EPA) to adjust the servo throw.

Dial is a little sensitive at time, but works fine.

 

[Natedog]

GT3B or GT3C works well (I've had and used them both, still using a FT3C on one truck), but Spektrum DX4S would be nicer and much easier to setup and adjust out on the trail.
https://www.spektrumrc.com/Products/Default.aspx?ProdId=SPM4000C

 

[soze]

GT3B or GT3C works well (I've had and used them both, still using a FT3C on one truck), but Spektrum DX4S would be nicer and much easier to setup and adjust out on the trail.
https://www.spektrumrc.com/Products/Default.aspx?ProdId=SPM4000C

Thanks for the recommendation. I just recently picked up and hacked the GT3C, so I'll be using that for now. Funny thing... since I asked about this... research on the Bruiser and Mountaineer snowballed into me picking up quite a few other crawler/scale kits and now the mountaineer and bruiser are on the back burner just sitting and waiting to see whether to be built or held on to as is. I've since started my sawback 4ls build and so far loving it.