Futaba Fasst module speed vs. spectrum/JR

[hookmaker]

Hi,
Some of the guys at the club tell me that they can feel both my T500 and T600N are slower flying/reacting on my 14MZ (35 MHz) than on their Spectrum DX7 system. Is it so significant that it can be felt by non-hardcore 3D pilots??

They also tell me that the Fasst module upgrade will not change this fact significantly - only when buying a full blood 2,4 GHz system will I get something that comes close to Spectrum/JR 2,4 GHz speed. Is this BS or for real?

I´m no radio geek, so wouldn´t be able to tell.

Thanks/Henrik

[dvelez3]

Here you go: http://www.runryder.com/helicopter/t172571p1/

Doug.

[DavidH]

Here you go: http://www.runryder.com/helicopter/t172571p1/

Doug.

If you look at that chart. You look at the figures for the 14MZ on 72 nhz and then figures for the 14MZ on 2.4ghz. That chart says the 2.4 ghz is slower. But there is more than a few threads where pilots that have made the switch from 72 mhz to 2.4 ghz have all reported the 2.4 was faster to them than the previous 72 mhz. And this is from pilots that all they did was change the module and receivers from one band to the other. Nothing on the models they were flying changed.
So there is more to speed than what the charts says. There is other factors in the equation. Just my opinion from what I have seen and read from pilots that have used both.
The same has been said about the 12 Z also

David

[ErichF]

Would the results on those charts be before or after the recent firmware changes to the 14, 12, and 12FG radios for FASST? Maybe the firmware improved the latency, or the new channel grouping and synchronization has reduced the percieved latency?

[dvelez3]

No idea on when that info was gather, I was pointed to that link yesterday on another forum, I just installed a TM-8 FASST module on my old 8U and I can tell you that it feels faster.

Regards,
Doug.

[DavidH]

Would the results on those charts be before or after the recent firmware changes to the 14, 12, and 12FG radios for FASST? Maybe the firmware improved the latency, or the new channel grouping and synchronization has reduced the percieved latency?


Have no idea about the results on the charts. As for updates for the 14MZ and 12Z. There has only been two since the 2.4ghz modules were released. And those updates happened within a few days of each other. The latest updates are from January. There has been none since then. The latest for the 12FG is Dec 2007.
As for Futaba I have been told that Futaba measures performance of there radios several different ways. The person that told me this should know, he has worked for Futaba R/C Japan for many years.


http://www.futaba-rc.com/sellsheets/index.html

David