Cripple cap on a later 35Mhz car (skyline set)

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- August 21, 2003 at 6:18 am #11064
  RichT
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  I got the skyline GT-R 3 shell set yesterday (on sale at HLJ- cost me about 7 pounds!) and it has very poor range. the batteries are new, but the car will stutter at around 1 metre. I got round to re-looking up the cripple cap mod (which I had already done a good while ago on an initial D set). on opening the controller up, I found the following.
  
  The classic “crip cap”, a roughly soldered capacitor straight between L3 and R9 as shown on the site, is not present.
  
  there is a capacitor that’s not there on the tech section pics , and it’s located between L3 and R9, but I can;t work out the elctronic connections on the other side of the board.
  
  This is the only 35Mhz car I have, so I don;t know if this extra capacitor is a crippler, but in a neater installation due to being on one of the later original BCGs (In which case it’s snipping time), or something that’s on the 35 MHz controller and not the 27 (in which case it’s not).
- August 21, 2003 at 9:56 am #20658
  ph2t
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  Rich, take a close up photo of the PCB and post it and we’ll be happy to help.
  
  ph2t.
- August 21, 2003 at 5:03 pm #20687
  jamiekulhanek
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  I took a cripple cap out of dgs73’s car and it added about 15 metres to the range
- August 21, 2003 at 7:56 pm #20546
  dgs73
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  I have the History set you refer to, as does a mate of mine. Neither of us get more than about 2 odd metres out of em. (not testing them at the same time, of course!!)
  Cant wait to race that car, Jamie…!
- August 22, 2003 at 1:13 am #20560
  RichT
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  Here’s my 27 MHz controller for reference- a classic gen 1 BCG board, it came crippled, and I removed the offending capacitor. the PCB itself is identical to my flatemate’s 57Mhz (s2000) controller that was uncapped and unopened until today.
  
  Here’s the history set.
  
  the classic cripple cap is missing, but we do have an extra capacitor not on the older set. also there are 2 new holes on the PCB for it (ringed with a white oval) at the top end. the bottom end seems to attach directly the blue wire (arial).
- August 22, 2003 at 4:54 am #20382
  RichT
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  I just checked the old forums (didn’t realise they were still available). actually, the initial D set didn’t have a crippler, so the upper picture is of a totally unsullied PCB.
- August 22, 2003 at 10:59 am #20279
  KingRX7
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  what digital camera is that? it has awesome quality!
- August 22, 2003 at 11:14 am #20280
  RichT
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  It’s my fiancee’s fuji finepix a303. http://www2.fujifilm.co.uk/digital/cameras/a303/
  those pictures are at 25% of the original size…
- August 24, 2003 at 5:55 am #38684
  L337_krew
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  turn the circuit board around it might by on da other side
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