Need Futaba 3PK info

tracerbob · Sep 27, 2004

Looking at replacing my 3PDF with a 3PK but the price of digital equipment is downright scarry. Will a R113F reciever work with this TX untill I can afford to make the jump to all digital?

gone2gas · Sep 27, 2004

tracerbob said:
Looking at replacing my 3PDF with a 3PK but the price of digital equipment is downright scarry. Will a R113F reciever work with this TX untill I can afford to make the jump to all digital?

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all the FM recievers from futaba will work, including PCM, whitch will give you failsafe.

Mike Hughes · Sep 27, 2004

You will have to set it up on the model setting for FM. It comes preset for PCM.

Mike

Scott Schneider · Sep 28, 2004

:huh: Mike is right.

One of really cool things about 3PK's is the ability to preset what type of TX signal is to be used with each boat in memory. In the case of your R113F simply set TX mode to FM under model set up for that receiver.

yes the PCM RX receivers are $$$ but PCM ( An FM signal too ) is far more stable and RF insensitive.

Scott

Bob Kensill · Sep 28, 2004

All the 3PK radios we have received so far have come with the HRS receiver. You can use any Futaba or Hitec "FM" receiver with it. You must set the radio type to "PPM". This radio will not broadcast in "PCM" unless it comes with the pcm module. Another note,the Hitec Spectra module works great with this radio and eliminates the need for TX crystals.

tracerbob · Sep 28, 2004

Cool. I downloaded the manual and read about setting the TX to "PPM" to use other recievers but what recivers to use was rather ambigious. Thats why I asked you guys. Thanks for the replies and I'm off to find a 3PK.