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Picked one up myself a little over a week ago. Waited until I had a chance to go to Amain so I could actually put hands on it before buying it. Overall build quality feels pretty decent to me. Pretty solid and has just a little bit of heft to it. As others have said, scroll pad takes a minute to get used to, wish you could set it up for taps instead of sliding, but it's certainly usable. Also agree thumb lever is a little short, should be fixable though. Pretty happy with it overall.

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Yep, post #104 in this thread.

http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/elect...ml#post5895065

I used a Hobbyking 2S 2100 mah life pack that fits the Futaba 4PX/4PV.

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are the channels able to be assigned a type like linear or 3pos.?

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Yes you can. I have my Aux 1 channel setup for my winch on 3 pos. and my Aux 2 channel I have my Castle Micro X Aux plug setup linear for adjustable drag brakes. You can also assign which switch you use. I'm using C for my winch and D for my adjustable drag brakes.

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I had my first time out with my new Spektrum Rugged today. When I first got it I really didn't like the way SPektrum has the touch style buttons but now that I sat and messing around with it I find it's much easier to use but it's still not my favorite setup button wise vs other brand radios I have used. Ok that being said it's really the only complaint I have. The screens and ease of use I fnd to be very easy and espically I have not used Spektrum stuff since the original radios Spektrum had out which I didn't care for overall quality wise and the receivers losing bind on hard hits.

Got what I didn't like out. Lets get into what I do like. Only been crawling for about 6 months so never had the need for a winch. The Rugged was very easy to program my Aux swith assign function and setup so that I can use the winch off the assigned switch (c) that I used. Very cool feature. Next I used the Aux assign again and setup Aux channel 2 to (D) which I setup to have adjustable drag brakes on my Castle Micro X esc. Really like that it's pretty easy to do. THe new SR515 receiver is a nice small size and being 5 channel is a nice touch. The SR515 receiver is a nice compact size and works great in my crawler. The added lever so you can throttle and drive with the same hand is a nice touch.

Overall other than the touch buttons to adjust the main screens that I don't care for I really like the rest of the radio and after using it for 5 hours crawling I have to say it is an excellent radio overall.

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thanks!

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I have a question. I was setting up my rugged last night. I'm using A as aux1 for the my winch have it set up as momentary and when I hit the button I'm getting winch and throttle together. How do I change it so it just operates the winch?

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Ran into this on mine too, you have to go disable the button in the menu for the other function it's triggering

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Thanks man.

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I am used to Knob type adjustments... How do you adjust the steering trim on the fly, or turn my idle up or down on my nitros???

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Use liner mode on the switch of your choice.

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Did the same swap today. Working great so far, thanks for the battery suggestion!

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I have several problems with the dx5. from the first hour broke the rubber strap hoop. another serious thing that makes and I do not understand why,it's that the channels are out of order and sometimes I go into the aux settings and there are no adjustments! other times if push the throttle trim I cannot adjust it to 0% and the car is going at the same time! so far disappointed

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Reduce the steps on your trim to 4 or 5 in the trim setup menu. I had the same issue as 9 was to big a step.

As for aux being out of order I have no Idea, but may have been how things were programmed. Try setting up a new model.

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Random question. Does this, or the DX5c, have a decently strong trigger spring? I currently have a DX2e and the throttle trigger is WAY too light with barely any resistance.

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Yeah its pretty firm... much firmer than my dx4c.

Spektrum DX5 Rugged
 

So does anyone know if you can still use the older ar6000 recivers?


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Thank you!

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can anyone explain to me how put drag brakes in a channel? It is possible with hobbywing 1080?

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You put drag brake in the ESC, not in the TX.

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DSMR receivers only

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And DSM2

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Nope, I asked Spektrum support when my DSM2 receivers wouldn't bind. They said they are DSMR only.

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That's on Spektrum site.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...96e8e1cd8a.jpg

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I don't have a DSM2 receiver, so I cannot argue.

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I know what the little DSMR description says, I'm telling you my experience and what Spektrum tech support told me.

The DX5 Rugged also lacks the 16.5ms frame rate the manual mentions is needed for DSM2 receivers.

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For EU this is true. And make sense for other countries also. But I think for US DSM2 is still available.

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There is DSM2 Surface, and DSM2 Air, and they are different, everything you can find now is DSM2 Air will not bind (I have tried 3 different ones, generic and from Spektrum). Possibly if you had an old surface DSM2 FROM SPEKTRUM it might bind, but I wouldn't count on it.
Edit:my experience is with the dx5 pro, dx5c and dx5r, I do not have a rugged, so maybee definatly not if there is no refrence to it or 16.5ms available.
Bottom line with Spektrum expect to pony up for there higher priced receivers.

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Did somebody tried 2s LiPo? It can handle 8v?

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I have a couple sets of Duracell Nimh rechargeable AA's 2200 mah batteries I use in the bottom of my TX's. Run time is days and then 2 hours of recharging and you have days more to go...

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I bound to a (probably knockoff) DSM2 receiver just fine...

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US version?

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I've used the "orange" DSM2 receivers no problem. They just can take a few tries to bind.

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So which would you prefer the rugged or the 5c. A main has the rugged at 199 with the 5 channel reciver and the 5c with a 6 channel reciver for 149


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Personally I still prefer the 5c, but the steering wheel on the rugged is pretty handy. But the touch controls are quite the learning curve.

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5c all the way

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I have to say, I chose the Dx5 Rugged. I find the thumb lever actually falls into hand readily and the sections where you are just walking along I found it rather handy. I also dropped it on my last trail run. I have fallen on my face, and my rear more than a few times in snow and mud and the knowlage that it is shock and water resistant made the extra $50 worth it to me. The touch pad does take getting used to, but it took me less than a minute.

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Trying to set up a 3 position light switch and I'm having the same issue. Turn the lights on or off and it triggers the throttle. I'm not sure I understand this answer, anyone able to explain how to fix it?

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The channel you are trying to use for your lights on/off is possibly tied to something else. I ran into this on my 5c. Had my winch setup on the F button, and it was also tied to the brake. I couldn't figure out why I kept loosing my reverse.

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This. You have to go into the settings for whatever secondary function the switch is tied into and change it to a different switch or disable it.

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