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Old 09-10-2010 | 09:04 AM
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Originally Posted by kdeselms
I will post this here, since it seems a lot of you have had experience with the EX-10 Helios. I have not had any trouble with this radio until the last couple of weeks, with my 2.4ghz module. I generally only turn on my radio at club races where it's just the group of guys on the driver's stand running their cars. However, I have gone to race at another facility (for on-road) where they also have a lot of people practicing off-road while we race, and my radio has started flaking out. I turn on the radio and the light on the transmitter module refuses to light up, and the receiver doesn't see a signal when the car is turned on. It's gotten to the point where I think I almost have to just turn the thing on and off until I get it to light up (which happens eventually), and then just leave it on the rest of the night, there. If I don't, I'll miss my race while I sit there turning the thing on and off, praying for the light to come on

There were a couple of KO Propo sponsored guys at the track the race the first day it happened and they swapped out my module for a new one, stating that mine was old and needed updating. They let me keep the new module, in fact...outstanding act of customer service by those guys. Unfortunately, the problem just keeps on happening. So my assumption is that the module is just having too much difficulty finding a radio channel to lock onto, with all the competing spread spectrum radios hopping frequencies all the time and whatnot?

Anyone have experience with this that knows what the solution is, or if there even is one? Does the Eurus have this issue, or has it been eliminated? I really don't want to have to go replace four receivers and my radio to fix the problem, if I don't have to - much as I'd like to have a Eurus!

The only time I have seen problems with the radio is if I turn the car on first. The radio does not like this at all. It will work when you don't have any other cars using the KO stuff. But if there are many, the radio does not get to scan for open channels before picking one, then when you turn your car on the receiver will lock on to the same channel as the radio. If you do it the other way, the receiver does not scan so it will be on the same (at least this is my understanding) channel as it was the last time you ran and then the radio has to try to find it. Which eliminates the open channel scan. But for the light not coming on, I have never seen this.
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