piggy back receivers?

[terrible]

I'm working on a lighting project with a china JK 2 door body. I'd like to keep almost all the lighting control in the body if I could. I thought about trying to bind two receivers to my futaba 4pv but I don't think that's possible with current futaba transmitters and receivers.

The idea was to have 2 channel #1's 2 channel #2's and so on. Sort of duplicate receivers.

The only other option to do what I want to do is use a Y splitter off of both channel #1 and #2. That makes for a lot of wiring and a pain come time to remove the body.

I'm using one of the associated lighting kits with turn signals, brake lights, driving lights and reverse lights. They are really cool for a cheap price. But they must daisy chain between the servo and ESC for proper lighting control.

Any ideas on simplifying the install? Is there any known why to run 2 receivers bound to the same transmitter on the same "channel"?

 

[kincer]

I know with my hacked Flysky it'll run two trucks at the same time but with whatever model you choose settings. One reason why I have two hacked radios lol, I don't know about your radio but it's worth a try. If you can power the separate rx in the body and it's bound to the radio it should work, well at least it would in my case.

 

[mikemcE]

As far as I know, you can only bind one rx to one tx. I’ve never seen any, that’s why many go to 6/7 channel’s

Now stick controls for aircraft are another breed.

Hang up and Drive

 

[kincer]

This would work with the Flysky radios, I have 7 or so rigs bound to each of my two hacked radios, one radio will run two rigs at the same time if both rigs are bound to that radio no matter what model is chosen. So in theory if you powered a rx in the body with a separate battery in theory they would work as a pair. On the Futaba I have no idea though.

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[Greatscott]

The best way to find out is connect the whole mess up on the bench and see what happens. The last time I had a Futaba the radio would try to control whatever RXs that were bound to it, if they were on at the same time. But, they might have fixed that. My Spektrum radios have "Model Match", this binds the RX to a specific stored model in the radio, and will not talk to any other RXs until you select that specific model on the radio.

 

[QuesoDelDiablo]

I'm using one of the associated lighting kits with turn signals, brake lights, driving lights and reverse lights. They are really cool for a cheap price.

Just be aware that those kits typically restrict current flow into your servo down to 1Amp so you may have steering servo issues in a crawler.

 

[terrible]

Well I decided to use Y-connectors instead of the 2 receivers or going in/out on the AE lighting controller. By using the Y I was able to only have two leads coming out of the receiver box and going to the firewall mounted lighting controller. That way when I pull the body I've only got 2 leads to connect or reconnect.

Also don't have to worry about the amp drop between the in/out on the lighting controller that way.

Thanks for the help guys.

During this project I looked at the Futaba 7 channel transmitter (price :O ) and receivers.

 

[indybama]

Tryed running 2 trucks with my gt5, no go. Have to select which truck u want to run. But then when u wanna switch to the other truck, it says to turn off the first truck

 

[OnTheTrail]

Never tried in a surface RC but I've run two 2.4 Futaba Receivers in my 40% Imac airplane for years. Not sure if the surface Rx protocol is designed differently from the aircraft ones.