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Well, i bought one of these now and i decided it just took off too slowly and killed the batteries a lil too fast for how slow it is.
So a friend of mine told me "get Ni-HMs and that should help".
Funny thing about Ni-HM AA batteries is that they are 1.2V instead of 1.5V. So when i put the Ni-HMs in it was stuck at 7.2V....this made for EVEN slower take off.
So i played with it a lil bit....
I am running 9 AA Ni-HMs on it and so far it seems to be holding out pretty good. It takes off considerably faster already as it is. This is only 1.2V more than it is normally, but it seems to make a world of difference.
I thought maybe it was just me thinking it was going faster just because i set it up this way myself and wanted to think it would help..hehe...so i put mine beside my friend's car and raced him. Mine was quite a bit faster than his.
Now i think i will tear out some of those features i am not using on it (lights, cool looking system setup with NOS bottle in the hatch).
Also, did anyone else experience POOR range with this thing? I noticed the antenna was glued to the inside of the body....not much help for range problems.
So i am gonna drill a hole in the body and stick the antenna through a straw to hold it up a lil higher. Maybe this will help my range.
Now i just have one more complaint about this car. When going slow, the steering really isnt all that great. I taped up the wheels to slip a lil more and kick the back end out to steer a lil better, but that is just useless when it comes to driving slowly. Gonna see if there is a way to give it better steering radius.
Anyone got any ideas?
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