Taranis alert!

[flybywire]

Hey!  If you want a Taranis, RadioC have them for £134.99 for a week apparently!  Is that good?

[The.Quadfather]

depends if postage included or not !

been £134 for a while @ GiantShark

could be old stock - GS has had improved parts (eg) available so maybe newer ones are better (?)

[cgcrute]

The RadioC one is the new Taranis Plus...

[The.Quadfather]

in that case: probably is a good deal !

I must have not been payin'; attention, but it seems they now don';t include the case 

[cgcrute]

They dropped that with the version 2 and the X8R. The case is functional but crap. You have seen the sodding great holes in mine haven';t you?

[quadfather]

Different quadfather I';m afraid

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[cgcrute]

Oooops!

[Royston]

Maybe I';m wrong but their Taranis plus is £169.99 with no receiver??

[cgcrute]

http://www.radioc.co.uk/dealoftheday.asp £134.99

[Royston]

Missed that. Just googled radioc and came up with £169.99.
Cheers
Roy

[Royston]

Can anyone tell me what the difference between the 8XR and  FrSky D8R-II Plus 8ch 2.4Ghz ACCST Receiver (with telemetry) as sold by RadioC and does it matter??

They are offering free postage as well!!

[Royston]

Anyone any advice re best receiver to use with Taranis? ?

[GdLookinMingeR]

Anyone any advice re best receiver to use with Taranis? ?

Both are excellent
depends what your flying ?
if its a 250 quad your probably better off with the dr4II

[Royston]

Thanks for the reply.
Flying mainly Phltrums Quadvolution 450 size, Flip 360 and Blade 350 QX so a bit of a mix really.
Wasn';t sure if tye the 8XR was 16 ch and the other only 8??

[Royston]

Any other views?

[barneyg]

V series are regular
D series have telemetry the 8';s have 8 PWM channels and 8 Channels over CPPM, the 4';s have 4 PWM channels and 8 Over CPPM
X series are the new SPort/SBus ones.  The 8 has 8 PWM and 16 SBus; the 6 has 6 PWM and 16 SBus; and there are 2 4';s one has 3 PWM and 16 SBus the other is just 4 PWM and no SBus.


I';ve been using a D8R-ii plus on my 450 and a D4R-ii on my v-tail ... I use the CPPM mode on both with the 27ms firmware for 8 channels (technically the d8r-ii plus doesn';t do CPPM that is the D8R-XP but the internals are the same and you can use the D8-XP';s firmware on the D8r-ii plus). 

The good thing about the D range is that if you use Baseflight Multiwii or APM then you can get an amount of data fed back from the FC to the RX so you don';t need the sensors that FrSky Sell.  If you are planning on using CPPM there is no need to use anything other than the D4R-ii it is a miniscule 5.8g (or 5g if you strip off the cardboard casing.)  I don';t believe this is possible yet with the X range as they use a different protocol for Telemetry.

[Royston]

Thanks Barney.
All a bit technical for me but I';m guessing it doesn';t really matter which I use then.
Only come to realise I needed more channels when I fitted a set of retracts to the 450.
I';m using DJI stuff. Does that make any difference?
Regards
Roy

[barneyg]

Thanks Barney.
All a bit technical for me but I';m guessing it doesn';t really matter which I use then.
Only come to realise I needed more channels when I fitted a set of retracts to the 450.
I';m using DJI stuff. Does that make any difference?
Regards
Roy

I don';t know about naza';s so I';d double check what I';m saying first but from what I';ve read:

The frsky sbus is compatible with the naze in futaba sbus mode.  The Naza only handles 8 channels even over sbus so you can pretty much use any of the RX units as long as it has sbus or cppm for the ones with less than 8 physical connections.  Personally I don';t think you can beat the d4r-ii for the money.   If I';ve got it wrong and the Naza can handle more than 8 channels then I';d go for the X4 that has the sbus port and use that coz you';d get 16 channels.

[Royston]

Thanks Barney