Cripple Cap in Microsizer pro

slider69 · #1 09-03-2003, 03:43 PM

I just got a Microsizer pro the other day (ya know the one w/ turbo boost) and I am looking for a cripple cap in the car or the transmitter. I've looked around for answers, some people say yes, some say no, and I still haven't seen the pic on the location... Any comments are appreciated.

MS_Modifier · #2 09-04-2003, 09:01 AM

with the pcb in the car how it came it is right behind wheir the antana comes out from under the pcb right next th the orange "thing" if ou look on the bottem of the pcb their is a capasater (the black drum with 2 wires and white writing on it) and the crip cap crosses thoes 2 wires on the top

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crazydave · #3 09-04-2003, 01:53 PM

I've removed the crip cap from one of my Microsizers, and it didn't do anything, and if it did change it might glitch worse. I believe it is not there to cripple reception, but to absorb interference.

Honestly the only 'crip cap' that seems to matter is the ones in the controllers of later Bit Char-Gs, and I wouldn't waste my time with the one on the PCB of Microsizers.

Have you tried untying the knot from your antenna, and running it out the back of the PCB, instead of under, over the PCB? That's improved my reception adequately for me. There's more than 2 inches of antenna stashed under there.

Micro S2000 · #4 09-04-2003, 04:23 PM

do clones like shens have a crip cap on the car? i cant find it and that could be why it gets better range but since i re roughted the intenna the ms range has started to catch up

MS_Modifier · #5 09-05-2003, 11:46 AM

the crip cap on my car made a lot of diff with it on it would olny go like 5 feet but with it gone it will go like 10-15 feet

slider69 · #6 09-05-2003, 08:28 PM

I yanked the cap with a fifteen watt iron today.... It went great.. the cap is gone (it wasnt the same size or in the same place) it was right next to the black component... ya know the one in the corner that is referred to in some of the mods. It didn't add much range, tho.. Maybe one or two feet if that much.. it might not have been the crip cap. I think the real problem is that crappy transmitter antenna that winds up....Telescopic here i come...

crazydave · #7 09-07-2003, 11:45 PM

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Originally posted by slider69
It didn't add much range, tho.. Maybe one or two feet if that much.. it might not have been the crip cap. I think the real problem is that crappy transmitter antenna that winds up....Telescopic here i come...

That sounds about right. That's the way it went for me on a couple different cars. It probably gave me a foot or 2 if it did anything.

So I think you got the cripple cap, and you're probably on the right track looking into a longer antenna for your controller.

slider69 · #8 09-08-2003, 12:21 PM

I want to try the 9v mod, too. I won't need to use the charger anyway, it's custom now ( BTW- My car is a microsizer pro board in a zip chassis with 2 cells, mosfetted, and with a 3.8) It sounds fairly easy, just solder in the voltage regulator and battery adapter for the 9v- heckuva lot easier than those 6 mosfets...