If you know anything about electronics please read this..
Hello everyone,
I was thinking about doing a light mod on my bit and had an idea... but I have no idea if it's even possible.
I'd like to connect the lights to the board so that when the motor is running the lights are on... the problem I had was when the motor was off the lights stopped... so... I was wondering if there was something like a micro-capacitor that would store enough power to keep the lights on for about 15 seconds after I stopped running...
something like.... when the motor goes into action the cap is charged and the lights draw from the cap.... then when the motor is stopped the cap powers the lights until it's out of juice...
The reason I wanted to do this was because they are headlights.. and headlights stay on when the car is in reverse or stopped in real life.... why not on the bit?.... I don't really like the spare battery because it makes the car top heavy...
Just a thought... no idea if it's even possible but I thought I'd ask... seems like a cool way to avoid a battery and switch while automatically having the lights turn on by remote....
Yeah..I've seen that but it's just too much stuff to put into the body of the car.... makes it really unstable for fast driving.... I was hoping for a really simple solution..... :-(
If you are looking for speed then you don't want to be pulling away from the current avalible to the motor
I think the extra draw on the motors would be more of a performance killer then adding a secondary light kit
I already have the larger battery in the car... and when running even a 2.2 motor, with the batter for the light kit in my car, it flips over in turns... which sucks.... yeah.. I've tried springs and suspension.. no luck..
I'm not really concerned with blazing speed... I think a 2.6 is too damn fast to be controllable as is... I just wanted the lights and to still be able to keep my car turning on a dime at full speed without filpping over...
I know in a car stereo you can add a capacitor to the line on the way to the amps that basically stores current.... I was thinking I could do the same thing with the RC car for the lights... just on a much smaller scale :-) .... the power from the capacitor in the car stereo will run my car stereo for about 30 seconds.... so I was thinking the power from this small battery could charge a smaller capacitor to run the lights for a little while...
so.. when the motor started the lights would start up and get brighter while the capacitor charged up... and when the motor stopped the capacitor would feed the lights which would slowly die out as the capacitor runs out of juice...
I'm not looking for alternatives... I'm looking to know if what I originally posted is possible... I'm well aware of all the alternatives :-)
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