I dont have a cripple capacitor? huh? why is my range as if i do?

SmokenRubber · #1 12-05-2002, 10:39 PM

guys i opened my remote and to my amazement my car distance i can say is not more then 7 feet in my room and 10 feet in my living room. hmm... what is the problem? damn it.

as it looks like i have an older model and it doesnt come with cripple.

bill · #2 12-05-2002, 11:15 PM

Have you checked the other side of the board?

8ate8 · #3 12-05-2002, 11:47 PM

ahhh.. so they moved it to the other side on some models.. how come no one answered my post about this same question in the other forum?

Pojo · #4 12-05-2002, 11:50 PM

just rip it off?

SmokenRubber · #5 12-05-2002, 11:52 PM

yes thank you so much but the picture doesnt load fully all i see is halp the circle.

8ate8 · #6 12-05-2002, 11:58 PM

ok, looking at my chip, i don't have that capacitor either.. what gives? i thought all new microsizers were supposed to have one?

SmokenRubber · #7 12-06-2002, 12:20 AM

actually now that i look at the logic, the capacitor is the little crapper on the other side, that is connected to the blue wire... some how... so just cut that crap off btw mine had #8 on it... so if that what u got on the other side cut that crap off... now my car works up to 22 feet... weird huh? guess it was the antanna mod that i did before...

SmokenRubber · #8 12-06-2002, 12:21 AM

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Originally posted by 8ate8
ahhh.. so they moved it to the other side on some models.. how come no one answered my post about this same question in the other forum?

becqause ur sn is crappy... and when they saw my smoken tires they got very excited and jumped to help.

I wanted to say that i was joking, sometimes no one is around to help you know... and the other posts build up.

Mr Freeze · #9 12-06-2002, 01:02 AM

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Originally posted by SmokenRubber
guys i opened my remote and to my amazement my car distance i can say is not more then 7 feet in my room and 10 feet in my living room. hmm... what is the problem? damn it.

as it looks like i have an older model and it doesnt come with cripple.

I think it would be a good idea for you to go to www.questformadness.com and get the cripple cap out of your car and try the antenna mods, both car and controller, if you haven't already.
I still can't find the cripple cap in my rev 5.0 board but those other mods give me about 20 feet down my hall. Used to have a range five to ten feet depending on how I held my tongue

SmokenRubber · #10 12-06-2002, 05:27 AM

bro if u havent noticed we already fixed the problem... notice the giant picture? and me saying wahoooooooooooooo i found that thing?

bill · #11 12-06-2002, 08:40 AM

Heh..... I should have resized the picture but I got carried away with the digicam

hogjowlz · #12 12-06-2002, 09:40 AM

dont buy anymore 27mhz cars. i found a 57mhz it has10x the range of both of my 27mhz cars.

Pojo · #13 12-06-2002, 10:37 AM

Oh really? Because my out of the box 57mhx XaNaVi got about 8-10ft before it puttered out. I just did the car crip mod and it now gets 15ft+.

Bryan4691 · #14 12-06-2002, 10:46 AM

Out of the box both my 27MHz & 45MHz got the same range. I did the crip mod (Car & Controller) and now my 45MHz will get about 40+ feet. My 27MHz is around 30 feet.

rockfshr · #15 12-06-2002, 11:33 AM

Ok Ive seen this work on two diffrent microsizers, both cars were 27 mhz and neither would go past 5 to 7 feet max. Took one car apart and removed the cripple cap on the pcb also replaced the anntena with a 22 awg wire. Nothing! did not help, well maybe 2 to 3 extra feet. then took second 27 mhz car apart and decided to try two 26 awg wires twisted in a pair, left the cripple capacitor on this car, this wire is a solid copper wire and guess what? added about 20 to 25 feet to this car, so now it goes about 35 feet indoors before studdering. Took the first car back apart and changed the antenna on it also. Same thing, increased range by about 25 feet indoors.F.Y.I the antennas were ran out the top of the car near the front windshield. The wire was left a little on the long side. Not sure why but 27Mhz seems to be the worst so far. My 57 Mhz will go about 60+ feet and 49 and 45Mhz seem to do well also where we are running these, indoors with lots of electrical equipment around. So looks to me like the antenna on the car is the biggest factor for distance that ive seen.