Comments on: Radio-Controlled Car on a Shoestring Budget

By: Michael S

Michael S — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:04:19 +0000

http://www.epanorama.net/wwwboard/messages/3583.html

By: JelliTL

JelliTL — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:47:32 +0000

By: 150peacemaker

150peacemaker — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:51:04 +0000

thats what I call multi-tasking.

By: xCrunchyxFrogx

xCrunchyxFrogx — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:08:18 +0000

Oh, lol.
So the camera person is driving? It ain’t that hard to drive straight

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:58:56 +0000

Go to a prof. hobbies shop, if they don't have the whole kit they should have the control transmitter and receivers you need.

By: Buffalo Fan

Buffalo Fan — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:31:14 +0000

With a very good sense of imagination..

By: rceye

rceye — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:44:00 +0000

I’m in australia you silly billy – the stearing wheel is on the right hand side

By: xCrunchyxFrogx

xCrunchyxFrogx — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:19:07 +0000

lol, it would suck if it crashed, like if it hit a light post or something. How the hell do you drive at the same time?

It’s a great idea for long road trips.

By: crossem

crossem — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:23:51 +0000

If it was just an electric toy car, you would increase the voltage the motor is getting and it would go faster. But being remote control, it has some electronics in it that could be damaged by higher voltage.

But there is always a way. Do you know much about electronics? You need to wire in a relay between the motor and the control box. You wire it so that the control box doesn't send power to the motor any more, it just sends a little power to the relay to "trip" it (a relay is just a switch that it turned on by electricity – you can get one at Radio Shack).
Say your car runs on 6 volts. You would hook up some batteries with say, 12 volts, and connect one of the wires to the relay, the other wire to the motor, and then run a wire from the relay to the other motor wire. Now, when you press the button on the remote to make it go, the controller in the car will turn on the relay. The relay will connect the 12-volt power to the motor, and off it goes, twice as fast as before.
You might even consider running it at 18 volts. To do this, get 4 or 6 rechargeable 9-volt batteries. Connect them in series pairs – two batteries to make 18 volts, then two more in series, with this series connected in parallel to the first. The more batteries you have in series, the faster it will go. The more you have in parallel, the longer it will run.
Hope this helps!
Rick (engineer)

By: 836 by K-9

836 by K-9 — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:52:35 +0000

first if it has a a starter than put batteries in it
then put the nitro in the vehicle
then try starting it with the starter
(if problem persistce than wiggle the exauhst pipe until exauhst is moving out freely)
if this still does not help than im sorry i cant help