My Maytech remote is working well. That said, I do have issues with the board cutting out intermittently. Having gone through all my ESC settings I have come to the conclusion that it’s a signal interrupt between Tx and Rx. It happens at the same place every time. I’m guessing interference from another source. I’ve narrowed it down to when I get within range of the hotel at one end of the Marina and the residences at the other end.
Anybody know if 2.4ghz Wifi can interfere with the signal? This is the first time I’m using a 2.4ghz setup, my previous remote was 433mhz and I didn’t have the same problem.
Eileen, now that you specialize in Efoil remotes would you consider a different frequency for your product? The advantage of 433Mhz, I’m led to believe, is that the signal is not effected if the board is submerged. That was certainly my experience when using the Rx in the picture. Just a thought!!
The remote will most likely use a radio chip that has a range of 2.4-2.525 GHz with 126 channels in 1MHz steps. This means that a lot of its range intersects with the 2.4GHz wifi standard, about the upper half of the 126 channels don’t exist in wifi, but still can somehow interfere. Especially if the remote and receiver try to automatically find a good channel they might select one in the lower half every once in a while.
Spot on. At identical output power, the lower the frequency, the more penetrating it is. So 0.433GHz is more penetrating than… 2.54GHz. See the 3G-4G-5G mobile frequency war to get the 700-800Mhz range previously occupied by the… analogic TV channels. I don’t know how male fertility will react though
To maintain the best possible signal strength, another possibility could be to reduce carbon use as much as we can in our boards.
Here is the alternative… S glass
If the transmitter is in the 2.4GHz Range, an external Wifi antenna with cable should work. Or just use coaxial wifi extension cable and connect the supplied antenna to the core (on the pcb connect the shield to gnd and the core where the antenna was connected).
I’ve given up using my Maytech remote. Too much interference on 2.4ghz and no water penetrating capability. We need a remote fitting for the application, not a marinised skateboard remote. C’mon Eileen, rise to the challenge and get ahead of the competition, you know its coming!
Yes, 433mhz signal has less interference. But it can’t process much data. It can be used for one-way communication. Our waterproof needs both-way communication and process much more data than normal remote. It needs to transfer data to receiver and also needs to read voltage, etc data from receiver.
