CrT-RaCeR

I had a failsafe laying around from my revo and i kind of destroyed my ofna micro failsafe and can i use the opti-drive as one? I have a rc10gt with a hot bodies rcvr in it. will this work? i tried to hook it up but there was no throttle response. how do you hook this thing up to make it work? Thanks for the advice.

DaveG55

The opti drive for the older 2.5 Revos did not have a failsafe system. All they did was regulate forward/reverse and let you know if the battery got low. The Optidrive from the newer 3.3's does, I think, have a failsafe in addation to the other functions but I do not know if it can be used as a failsafe in another system. Most people don't really like the optidrive and remove it in favor of a dedicatd failsafe.
Honestly, you'ld probably be better off to just get a new failsafe.

CrT-RaCeR

Thanks, just wanted to know.

legbuh

Depends on what you want it for. It it's for when you lose signal or batteries go low, Optidrive works great for a failsafe.

But, if you get your electronics wet or they malfunction, hello runnaway! Had this happen on my Maxx 3.3 just a few days ago bashing in the snow.. it took off and the throttle servo was going nuts.

ChuckDeez

aww, you had no throttle spring return?! I got so lucky with my revo 3.3. The throttle went out and I was wondering what was wrong with it. I was so lucky the REVO 3.3 came with a throttle return spring. If it didn't, bye bye...

CrT-RaCeR

I destroyed 2 rcvr boxes before i put this on all my rcvrs and servos, heres a link of what i used http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...&I=LXDZ18&P=ML i have the 2.5 revo opti-drive, I almost had a run-away when i was on the track and on the other side of the jump was a puddle (didn't see it) and it went right in. the failsafe kicked in and saved me. My track is on a corner and there is streets on 2 sides and if it ran away it would of got ran over. But a rock hit it in a bad crash and destroyed it