cripple cap

[betty.k]

just got my first gen-yoo-wine tomy ccg (yay!). these things s##t all over clones! any way i just want to confirm the cripple cap procedure. is this it in the pic below? if so, when i do remove it, do i replace it with some wire to bridge the gap or leave the gap alone?

:8ball:

[barto_85]

here is a procedure ph2t posted on ausmicro a few months ago, hope it helps.

http://www.ausmicro.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=585&FORUM_ID=9&CAT_ID=2&Topic_Title=THE+crip+cap+%28in+tha+car%29+mod%2E%2E%2E%2E%2E&Forum_Title=BCG+%2D+Technical

[betty.k]

aah, thanks for that. i missed that thread. time for mod number 1!:8ball:

[ph2t]

errr um betty, where did you get that pic from in your first post? That pic is ripped from my tutorial for this mod that barto has given you a link for.

ph2t.

[betty.k]

yeah, i know!! i forgot that i’d read it before and ripped the pic for future reference, but didn’t include the tutorial!:blush:
so yes it’s your pic, sorry if i scared you! (sometimes i’m a bit of a drip!:approve:):8ball:

[ph2t]

nah that’s cool dude, I was worried that you had gotten it from somewhere else that had ripped my pics….

[betty.k]

btw, i did the mod to the letter including enamelled copper wire and it gave me another meter or two on top of the 10 – 12 i had before. i also put a telescopic aerial on the tx, much better!:):8ball:

[leonli17]

just don’t modify the range too much. U barely able to see the car when it’s 15-20M away from u.

betty.k: ph2t had a few excellent tutorials.
There is the internal Dual Cell Mod. The DIP switch mod and of cource the cripple cap removal. So if u want get started on modify ur Bit. Read his tutorials first. It’s easy.
And once u got the hang of it. Read micro_Amps MOSFET mod tutorial.

Edited by – leonli17 on 26 November 2003 00:28:38

[Impreza]

betty, congrats on your first Tomy. You know there is no going back now don’t you:evil:

[betty.k]

eeyup!! i’m already installing headlights and popped a 2.6 in it and i’ll be adding front suspension as it rolls over on my uneven concrete backyard. i sort of want to keep my new shell relatively unscratched, all my other clones are worn down to the plastic!!:8ball:

[twizm]

you drive yours on concrete? i did that once and my steering needed tobe cleaned of all the metal shards. i usually drive mine on the tile bathroom floor, but with slippery tiles, stock tyres and a 3.0 motor, its a hard but fun task.

doesnt the standard CCG come with a 2.2? if so, how could you notice the power difference? unless the 2.2 has poor torque or vice versa, its hard to tell which is faster without a really big difference. (1.0-3.0 for example)

Edited by – twizm on 26 November 2003 11:14:01

[betty.k]

the motor that came with my ccg was yellow. after comparing it to the tomy 2.6 i bought earlier (orange) i can estimate that the yellow motor must be a 1.0.
yeah, i drive on concrete, got a huge back yard. i just remove the shards by blowing them away or with a little screwdriver. i usually don’t care about all the scratches but this is my special ‘pride and joy’ tomy ccg!!:8ball:

[barto_85]

ohh really? the yellow motor, is definitely a 2.2, must be a dodgy one though.

[betty.k]

yeah, it’s weak as pi55. even my stock shen is faster. aah well, that motor’s in the cat’s car now!:8ball:

[peteWah]

what will that particular modif enable your car to do…
and and my 2.2 motor that i got with my CCG WRX
did not work to start with and now it dose
even dgs said it was dead…
i also have 2.6 motor which i cant tell the diff between the speed of the 2.2 and 2.6
all i know is i want to go faster already i.e 3.0, 3.8, 4.2
1.0 blue 2.2 yellow 2.6 orange and dgs knows the rest
is that any help
cheerbro: pcd79

[trash]

Thanks ph2t, I hadn’t seen that thread either.

I just had a think about the capacitor and why it’s there. To put attenuation on a rxer isn’t a real clever idea unless you have problems with signal overloading. Even then it makes a lot more sense to attenuate the signal on the transmitter.

The capacitor on antennas is used for two reasons.
One is as a high pass filter to keep low frequencies out like power line noise. The other and more important reason is stray capacitance.

The antenna wire forms a capacitor with anything close to it. It’s not much, but it is more than enough to detune the tank circuit in the radio.
A capacitor in series makes sure than any stray capacitance is kept to a minimum.

So it is more likely that they had problems with de-tuning and added the mod as an improvement (sic). Does anybody know what the value of the capacitor is ?

[ph2t]

Nah man, being a surface mount ceramic pkg there’s never any labeling for those critters!
bugger!

ph2t.

[trash]

Save them, because I can measure them if somebody cares to post me one.
I suspect they are about 10pf. I’d sugesst measuring them yourself with a 100M resistor, but even then the cap is still too small. Unless you have a CRO.

[betty.k]

so what are you getting at here trash? do you reckon a different cap could improve range or clarity?:8ball:

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