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Spektrum DX5 Rugged

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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goobs said:
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.
 
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.
 
wyd said:
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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thanks!
 
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?
 
robobray said:
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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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???
 
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
 
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.
 
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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