CT8A Budget Drift Controller Upgrade from Rlaarlo 

The "Pros" and "Cons" naming is just so funny 😅

Man there are so many super nice budget TX's available all the sudden it's crazy

Just picked up a deal on this guy. Transmitter, lithium battery and two gyro receivers for $50 on Amazon. Finally i can ditch my SLT3 and bind my Granote BLX and Felony to one transmitter. 👍🏽👍🏽

pro "lol yeah right" tip. The battery telemetry plug can be "and I recommend this" insterted into the deans plug from the esc. If you do it that way, you don't have to worry with it ever again. No matter what battery you plug in, it'll have the telemetry for it automatically. Also, you only need to plug in the red one. You can literally just push it into the actual cord, then wrap it in electrical tape, or "what I did " you can slide over a big enough piece of shrink wrap, to encompass pos and neg plus the telemetry cords all in one much more secure package. Now, I am NOT a genius with electricity, I can't solder for crap, and I don't know much about wiring. When I said you only have to plug one of them in, I in all honesty can't remember which one is required, so just use both, unless you are those things, I said I am not, and already know. To insert the little cord, think of it, like inserting an IV. You want to go in at an angle, and DO NOT want to go all the way through. I don't know if it's a bad thing if you do or not, but I remember the guy I watched telling me to do it the way I described. I will say, I re ran my wiring a couple times, so had to remove and replace those little cords a couple times, and it was no issue, so in summery. Go into the red and black from the esc, at an angle, and don't push all the way through to the other side. use tape or shrink wrap, to secure it all, and plug the othe end into the receiver. Enjoy knowing the exact voltage you have left on your controller and vehicle from the comfort of your screen. BTW, I don't have the fancy ct8a, mines is the ct6a... til Monday lol. I got the hotrc branded one, with a gyro receiver, and a regular receiver, for $50 off of amazon.

That's an awesome deal ! And it looks great with a ton of options ! At the price point you probably can't beat it for the expert or novice drifter out there thanks for the review as always very informative !

You are a Brilliant Man Sir Thank You ! love to see more on this Transmitter

Great review, definitely something to check into for me,in need of a transmitter for a basher,as always appreciate the review!!

Great Content as per usual! Shoutout roadside 🤘🤘 looking forward to future videos.

I just bought the HotRC version of this (no gyro). I haven't done a test yet, but the naming of the functions is hilarious. I hope I can get firmware that corrects it. If not, it will still make me laugh!

Just put my order in awesome review man

Dang, $40 for a color screen and all those channels? I'm gonna be honest, I wasn't thinking too highly of the radio throughout your review bit being that affordable makes it easy to look past all the quirks and odd settings. Check out the dumborc ddf-350 next. I've been using one on a loaner drift chassis for a while now. It works great. Being a dumbo its got great range and is very reliable. Its got a nice screen and alot of easy to use buttons, with all the buttons and receivers that are cheap and included lighting controls I think its one of the best crawler radios on the market for any price. Its even compatible with futaba 4pm steering wheels

I dig it. I have most of my cars set up with a Flysky GT3B. 2 1/8 race cars, 2 drift cars, TT02R, and a crawler. For the same price, there seems to be a lot more ability to fine tune the radio. Do you do any on road racing? I bet with steering adjusting, it would be great for my TT02R. Great video Troy!

Can you do a more In depth video of set up settings trying to figure out the esc settings, servo settings and linearity

good review of the budget controller *🦘Au🪱👀fully viewed☑👍like✅have a good week🔆*

would love to see a review on the DUMBORC DDF-350. i think you did a review a while back on one of their other controllers built in gyro but this video reminded me about it i wonder if its any good. i'm still new to the rc world so i'm trying to keep my budget low lol

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FYI HotRC CT-8A seems to be identical and possibly cheaper...

Did you ever make any more videos about the controller?

Amazing review! Do you think this will work with the LDRC Rx7 drift car to have better/responsive control + remove the gyro wobble?

I don't see the 18650 battery link... really wish you show us which brand of 18650 you are using and what mAh.

Have you tried the radiomaster mt12? Would you recommend this one over the other for beginner drifting?

Haha it would take me 100 years to learn about remotes.💃

hey man. i just got the transmitter today, and ive used 2 different 18650 batteries, but they cant reach the terminals. are both sides of your battery flat?

Do you know what the function "Linearity" is?

Would you suggest this over the RadioMaster or vise versa?

Troy have you by any chance tried the flysky g7p? Thoughts comments??

Did we ever figure out if it works with the ldrc cars? 😅

Any one know where you can get another receiver, rlaarlo are saying they don’t sell them which is odd since you can have up to 8 models

Do you think this would would be a good choice as an upgrade for a redcat rds rtr? Until i can afford a futaba 4pm

Man if this works with my gyd470 ill buy it

Apa remot ini sudah ada gyro yang bisa digunakan, tanpa ada gyro tambahan

Can some tell me how I can reset my controller I accidentally put it in Chinese language

Do you know the size of the receiver.

Can’t get it to connect lol

Oh my, they ran the whole thing trough google translate 🤣 Skipping this, too many quirks.