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05-12-2008, 09:13 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Denverish
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|  Nomadio React pros/cons?
I'm eyeballing the react for my next radio, but have heard rumblings about people on the board not liking them. Anyone out there in Crawlerland have any feeback? I'll probably be getting a used one, if that makes any difference.
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05-12-2008, 09:17 AM
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| R.I.P. Chip   Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: The Crawler State
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The radio is awesome, the trancievers suck badly. I have blown like 5 or 6 of the transcievers. The radio will work fine though with spektrum recievers, but then you loose the 4th channel. I got my DX3R and sold the React. |
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05-12-2008, 09:19 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Albuquerque
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The quick rate the battery runs down is the worst thing with the React. I'm thinking of doing exactly what Jason did. I'm itching to try another radio. Anyone want to buy a React?  |
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05-12-2008, 12:52 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Chico
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i have a react and i freaking love it.......other than the super short battery life and rediculous charge time. but thats easily fixxed by a new battery and an external charger...which im currently trying to find. i love that its adjustable from the computer and updatable. plus having 4 channels is great. if you can get one for a good deal id jump on it.....
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05-12-2008, 12:56 PM
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| Tire&Foam Extraordinaire   Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: C.I. Compound, Tyler, Texas
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He has been rare in that the transceiver has been fine for him, but he is using Spektrum RX's with his Nomadio with his other crawlers. More and people are getting the DX3R and loving it. That would be my suggestion. | |
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05-12-2008, 03:51 PM
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| Keep it real  Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Yakima,WA
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There are a whole bunch of guys who have been running the nomadios up here in the PNW, with no issues. My mod for the React battery: cut the plug off the stock battery, solder in a deans, and build 4cell packs out of 2/3A cells, or 4/5A cells. You can charge them on your regular charger, they last longer than the stocker, and they are a lot cheaper than buying a custom pack for the React.  |
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05-12-2008, 05:03 PM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Vegas
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Never had any real issues with mine until a screw got stripped and got the royal ass wipe treatment from Customer service. When they made it apparent to me that they are focusing on the military side and the hobby side gets no love I decided to jump ship. I picked up a DX3R and it is a good replacement. The DX3R takes alkalines which makes it nice for a quick swap when needed. Fit and feel is nice. The fact you can lay it down more than just one way makes it nice. Reaction is just as fast and has almost as many functions as the Nomadio. The availability of RX's is a winner as well. The wins for the Nomadio is you can hook it up to your computer which made it nice for upgrades, inputting data and changing buttons and such. I used an external charger for my nomadio and it would work just fine. It is stamped 800 mah but for some reason would peak at 1300+. Never had any issues with the transceivers at all. |
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05-12-2008, 05:06 PM
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| owner, Holmes Hobbies LLC  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Volt up! Gear down!
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I like mine. I put a 6 cell nimh pack inside with a CC BEC turning it down to 5.5v. Runs all day.
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05-12-2008, 05:07 PM
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| Adilynsdad too!   Join Date: May 2004 Location: G ville
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05-13-2008, 01:06 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: 22 Acacia Avenue
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I HAD the Sensor (sold tonight on Ebay)..Never once used the crap stock batteries or POS charger. From the first day I turned it on, I put in an Apogee LiMn Magnum 1500 2s batt with a losi reg on it...Always ran my backlight on, and I had only charged it 4-5 times since November!! No joke. It worked bitchin', and I programmed the warning to kick on at 5.5 volts so I never killed the battery. Took a bit of figuring since the full charge was like 8.4 volts or something, and with the reg on it, the system only saw 6 volts even though it was higher. I HIGHLY recommend to anyone running Nomadio to go that route if you have a lipo charger handy... I am getting the DX3R though to replace it. Not feeling too comfortable with Nomadio being disco'd at every major retailer. Tower, Hobby People, A Main, you name it...All killing off Nomadio. I never had a problem, but should one arise, I like to know I will get support...Really liked the radio for all of it's progamming features and firmware upgrades it allowed...Just bulky transceivers, but had telemtry built in, and in my Kyosho 777sp2, I used the voltage sensor since I also run lipo there too! I think the speed thing is stupid over kill, but some may actually use it?? Temp is cool too, but I never used it. Overall nice, too bad they are more focused on the military and not hobby... |
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05-13-2008, 08:35 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Indiana
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I love both my React and Sensor, great radios and awesome customer service directly from Nomadio. Ben using them for about 2 years and I have not had any real problems that ALL 2.4Ghz have haven't had. Unfortunetly the Military has used up most of Nomadio's resources and they are way behind on production. |
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