You would think the adjustment is saved within the car’s electronic somewhere, I’d suppose speed controller, receiver or who knows where. Not in my phone.
If it is the way you suggested (and that might be the case) the offline settings should at least be what they where prior to the tqi module instead of next to no steering.
It's stored in the Rx, and first time use of the BT module sometimes messes up the settings.
Yeah, you would think that the App just replaces the blink-and-press user interface, but no, you didn't think the way the programmers did, none of those ever had a model. The closest they are to Traxxas is by having a t-shirt, pen or mug from them i guess.
Who comes up with a Speedometer for a model that has a shiftable gearing and just forgets that?
Why are the battery meters all unusable because of weird fixed scales that not even fit to the RtR Traxxas models they're intended for?
Why can't you calibrate the Inclinometers, and why is their orientation fixed?
I do have a 1080 in an arma granite i don’t use I can trow in, and I do like it.
Being that I’m so new to this hobby I don’t know if replacing the esc to the 1080 will let me install the Traxxas lighting kit that I want without having to do all kind of work arounds. I don’t mind the controller so far (granted i haven’t used a better one to compare) it seems ok for me. The low and high switch is right there along with the difs lock toggle switch. How would the flysky make the user experience better???
If you want the TRX light kit you're stuck to the TRX electronics.
They use the red plug on the XL5 to power it, although that's just battery voltage, so you could use an adaptor or solder a plug to your battery wires when using a different ESC (which i would recommend: The HW 1080 or the ISDT ESC70 have far better BECs for cheap, and control the motor waaay better).
On the other hand: the simple "always on" light kit is crap, just buy anything else, it'll be cheaper and have at least the same (none) function and usually they plug into the rx with y-cables.
For the Scale light kit (that is pretty good) you need a TRX receiver to have the MAXXLINK wiring, and use the motor adapter to get brake lights going.
With the servo wiring for other Rx systems it just won't work right. Wonder why?
As for other Radios in itself: No other radio has the thumb switch and the diff switch. There are lots and lots out there that have buttons around the steering wheel, some have them on the top.
You get usable standard signals and could use other light control kits, like OSL, CTI, Laneboys, and whatnot, they all use +-100% Servo signals you won't get out the TRX radio, also, it's easy to have one with more channels so you could control the lights with extra buttons, impossible on the TRX radio.
But: it's also the only one with the App, Telemetry, Inclinometers, and light switch panels, so you're losing a bit, too.
Although there are Telemetry radios out there, none does it for the price of the TQi.
Spektrum is really good quality but pricy, FlySky is the other end, even cheaper than TQi, but they work. And there are lots of different compatible rx for them.
So the best would be to see other people with other radios and ask if you might try it, it needs to fit your hand (how heavy is it, how long/wide is the grip, how do the buttons feel, can you reach them) and often you would think you could program something but you simply can't, most of the manuals aren't worth looking at it.
