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Old 07-29-2003, 04:10 PM
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I have spoken to Tyree Phillips from Novak about this and I own somewhere around 7-8 of these receivers. The XXL will work fine in gas/nitro cars if you make sure that it is is shock cushioned so the chassis vibrations don't kill it. IOW, don't servo tape it to your chassis if you can get away with it. The biggest killer of XXLs is the super high vibration caused by some of the 40k+ RPM motors we run in 1/8 scale. That being said, I have successfully used them and they have lasted fine but will last even longer if you mount them carefully. In looking at Tyree's 1/5 scale Technokit I saw that he mounted his XXL surrounded in foam and that seemed to do the trick perfectly.

I currently have been running the XXXtra Synthesized in my 1/8 scale and they are awesome. The only glitch I have encountered was ultimately from a bad throttle servo. So if you encounter troubles, make sure you check out everything first before looking to the receiver.
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