pengaru

vosko, I finally downloaded these pics I took of my KX-One, it's pimpy, check it:





















and with all electronics, charging up ready to go:





this car is cool, the weight distribution is great, note that the battery pack and motor are both in the centerline of the car, it drives like it's on rails, and sounds cool as hell due ot the single belt drive (it's pretty quiet, I can hardly hear the car at WOT when driving with my friend who drives a TC3, and I pull on him using a motor and battery my parents bought me when I was a kid that I just grabbed from my old car stuff, and thats the stuff that really degrades with age)



yes, the shock towers and chassis pieces are real carbon fiber

:bigok:



my apologies to the dialup users..

vosko

that thing looks sweet!

Rob x-7

I have a electric car like that, it quite old now, I wonder if it even works?

I had it in high school, I dont even know how fast it is but its hard to even find a

place to run it because the slightest bump and it goes nuts. Has sponge slicks on it

and a remote that I remember was very expensive.

vosko

so break it out see what she can do !

Rob x-7

I still have the charger so I can charge it in the house or off a car battery

by either plugging it in to a lighter or right to a battery itself, a 15 minute fast charger

pengaru

I had my old charger that was just like that, but had a digital display and variable adjustable amperage... and it broke like a week after I took it out of storage, it won't charge packs now for ****. When it broke I thought my old battery had reversed the cells or something but I charged it on my friends new peak charger that came with his tc3 kit, and the thing ran like hell. The new chargers are quite a bit better than the olds ones. I bought his peak charger for $20 as he needed a new one for charging the NiMh batteries he's using now.



I used to have a 'pan car' that had foam tires, that car was really touchy, the smallest pebble would put it in the air. These new AWD touring cars that are popular now are pretty damn cool, full suspension unlike the pan cars, and they're still pretty fast (but are heavier than the pan cars) and are easier to drive due to the AWD.



I think I'm getting obsessed with RC again, between the fiero, rx-7, and RC, I will surely go broke. This doesnt even count the wife or cats. :rant:

Rob x-7

The chassis of mine isnt as nice as yours, it is more like a pan.

NiMh batteries would definitly be nice. I would probably just get a whole new car,

use the controller and some other stuff over again rather then bother with my old car.

Do they still need seperate batteries for the steering? I had a battery eliminator in mine.



I would estimate my old car did at least 50mph, it was hard to tell because rarealy could I open it up all the way.

pengaru

hell yeah those pan cars were fast as hell, they are so light... I might have to dig mine out of storage.



you don't need sesperate batteries for the radio gear unless you run either a gas car or a really old setup with the mechanical speed controller, but I think even those had support for powering the radio gear off the main battery pack. With the electronic speed controllers the runtimes are longer, and faster, they pulse drive the motor now and even have braking by using the motor to charge the pack causing a load which decelerates the car. If you do decide to get back into it, if you have a habit of going all out with things I'd suggest not getting one of the RTR (ready to run) kits, once you start getting deeper you just end up replacing everything with bettter more flexible equivalents. Better off just buying the standalone car kit and buying good components right away.



You can pickup a nice kit with no body unassembled usually for around $200, reuse what you can, and replace what either can't be reused or is too old to be fun... basically what I did, worked out pretty well. All I've spent significant money on is the electronic speed controller (around $200) and the car kit (another $200). I went all out on the speed controller because it seemed interesting, all programmable.

Rob x-7

Ill have to dig it out now and take some pics