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Old 04-05-2003, 09:25 AM
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Question about Fail Safe units

Can you use a fail safe not made by your radio manufacturer or do you need one the same brand as the radio?

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Old 04-05-2003, 09:28 AM
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any will work unless you have an M8, then you need dynamites one specially made for the M8
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Old 04-05-2003, 09:31 AM
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Old 04-05-2003, 10:02 AM
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has anybody used the "Ram Servo Fail Safe " here's what tower says about it"The Super Servo Setter is a failsafe device that can be used with any receiver and servo. The Servo Setter goes in between the receiver and servo, and in the event of signal loss, will move a single servo to whatever position you preset. An adjustable time delay allows for either instant response to a
signal failure, or as much as a few seconds before the Servo Setter takes over."

it sounds pretty nice but is it too good to be true and will it work with any radio system
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Old 04-05-2003, 10:11 AM
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i have a failsafe in my monster pirate, it is definitely worth the money. and it does all that above perfectly.

the only problem is if your battery gets thrown from the car or unhooked. chances of hapening? not often

ive had times where n00bs have clicked on my pirates frequency or n00bs fiddling with my radio while im tuning my XTM 24(yes it idles that smooth) and clicking it on and off
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Old 04-08-2003, 03:49 PM
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Originally posted by AndrewtheRCman
any will work unless you have an M8, then you need dynamites one specially made for the M8
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Where can you find the one made for the M8? I never heard of this before. I just got a failsafe for my car but didn't know you had to have a specific failsafe for a M8.
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Old 04-08-2003, 04:05 PM
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Isn't the one for the M8 made by Dynomite or something like that? The M8 to the best of my knowledge is the onle radio that requires a specific fail safe. Then again I could be wrong...
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Old 04-08-2003, 04:39 PM
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yes dynamite makes it. same price as the normals

basically the M8s antilock brakes function gets in the way of things and overrides your failsafe in an emergency. using the dynamite one fixes the problem
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Old 04-09-2003, 01:10 AM
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Originally posted by stefan
STEFAN I was reading about this fail safe my ofna and they say it is the size of a peanut M&M.
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Old 04-09-2003, 03:57 AM
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Scheint auch zu stimmen. Die Servostecker geben einen guten Groessenvergleich, das Ding ist winzig.

..und kostet auch nur $25
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The m8 is made by airtronics and from what ive been told not many failsafes work with it accept the one made by dynamite
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bringing this back:

if the servo loses complete power due to the failure of the reciever connection how does it have the power to move the servo to the set position????

will the Ram one I listed previously work for any servo and reciever?? does it use up extra power from the batteries???

does it slow the response time of the throttle down? (any dely due to having it?)
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a freind and i have had experience with the OFNA (older ones) failsafe and found something

with the fail safe installed, the throttle servo cannot be a high performance servo (mine was a Futaba 9450), or else it will glitch


then, he switched to a KO propo fail safe, and the glitching stopped
and i swithced to a pcm transmittor

but just to let you know, the older OFNA failsafes may have that problem
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Old 08-04-2003, 08:08 PM
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no the fail safe does not slow the response of the servo
and they don't use much battery power either, BUT
if the battery power fails a fail safe is useless
this is why all nitros should come with a throttel
return spring , basically a mechanical device that returns
the throttle to neutral in the event of power failure
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