Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Testing various things here:
My crossfire tx has been doing some strange little twitches now and then so I needed to see if I could still rely on it going further than usual. Still holds up at least on this truck.
This was in 95+ degree weather so doing a 20 minute run is a good test of both the O3 Air Unit and the Copperhead 10 ESC. Big Kaiju tires and the 13T pinion are still working for me and it seems like I could even put bigger tires on if I wanted. That park has a fairly large wooded area and it seems like the only reason I wouldn't be able to roam all of it is because it's not flat enough.
I put a Baofeng radio on the truck so I could talk to it. I set my TX power to low (not sure what that is) but it didn't come through clear when I said "what's up" to the guy I saw walking by the playground. I think I jump scared the crap out of him anyway. I'm guessing with high TX power it would have worked but not sure about at the full range of the truck. I've tested those radios before with the stock whip antennas and they seemed to work fine with a lot of unreasonable obstruction up to about 500-600 meters.
The Lawmate RX I'm now using on 1280Mhz also gave me good audio for the whole run except for a couple areas with the most tree obstruction. This was with an analog cam also hooked up so even though I wasn't looking at a screen to see the video feed I could assume what it would look like. Fairly clear video up until I hit the woods, then in the deeper parts of the woods looking like crap. I'd say the Lawmate still did ok though since the antenna is sitting pretty low on the truck, and my receiver antenna is just the small CP sitting on the dash.
Testing various things here:
My crossfire tx has been doing some strange little twitches now and then so I needed to see if I could still rely on it going further than usual. Still holds up at least on this truck.
This was in 95+ degree weather so doing a 20 minute run is a good test of both the O3 Air Unit and the Copperhead 10 ESC. Big Kaiju tires and the 13T pinion are still working for me and it seems like I could even put bigger tires on if I wanted. That park has a fairly large wooded area and it seems like the only reason I wouldn't be able to roam all of it is because it's not flat enough.
I put a Baofeng radio on the truck so I could talk to it. I set my TX power to low (not sure what that is) but it didn't come through clear when I said "what's up" to the guy I saw walking by the playground. I think I jump scared the crap out of him anyway. I'm guessing with high TX power it would have worked but not sure about at the full range of the truck. I've tested those radios before with the stock whip antennas and they seemed to work fine with a lot of unreasonable obstruction up to about 500-600 meters.
The Lawmate RX I'm now using on 1280Mhz also gave me good audio for the whole run except for a couple areas with the most tree obstruction. This was with an analog cam also hooked up so even though I wasn't looking at a screen to see the video feed I could assume what it would look like. Fairly clear video up until I hit the woods, then in the deeper parts of the woods looking like crap. I'd say the Lawmate still did ok though since the antenna is sitting pretty low on the truck, and my receiver antenna is just the small CP sitting on the dash.
