Tx distance?

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- August 13, 2003 at 6:30 am #11800
  Impreza
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  I was just wondering what the Tx distance of Mini s are? Feet or Meters?
  
  Edited by – Impreza on 13 August 2003 02:56:59
- August 13, 2003 at 8:41 am #46828
  VR-4
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  feet for mine. i havent tested mine more than 50 foot but it seems like it has alot more range i just dont have a big enought track
- August 13, 2003 at 1:26 pm #46833
  Aaron
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  Mines not much shorter than a real 1/10th scale car. 20 metres easy, 50 metres with good conditions!
  
  Damn hard to see the car at that kind of range 😉
  
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- August 13, 2003 at 2:25 pm #46835
  KingRX7
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  find the sweet spot and it will work better than new
- August 13, 2003 at 3:05 pm #46837
  jamiekulhanek
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  Yeah mine has about 80-100metres of range after fixing it 🙂 By the time the car is that far away, it is prettymuch invisible.
- August 15, 2003 at 6:32 pm #46869
  PandaBear
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  Standard Mk.1 “Perfex” (aka JR Python, Acoms Technisport) TX
  isn’t all that RF-powerful (due to legal restrictions?),
  but it was the the same as what they supply for the
  larger Kyosho RTR Readysets.
  
  Antenna on car also makes a difference.
  
  Without the car antenna wire and the antenna unextended
  on my Acoms Technisport, the range is about 4-6′.
  With the TX antenna extended, its about 20-25′.
  
  For indoor use, that’s fine.
- August 15, 2003 at 9:31 pm #46875
  GT-ahh
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  im scared to test the range cause when it goes out….it goes possesed…not good if u have a huge fet stack:D
- August 15, 2003 at 10:18 pm #46877
  Aaron
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  Nah I don’t like experiementing with it either.. Then again I used mine at work… in out building which has good RF shielding (mobiles only work next to widnows etc) and it goes maybe 5m before spacking out into the walls!
  
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- August 18, 2003 at 9:05 pm #46905
  Impreza
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  GT-ahh got to love a runaway car:) 50 m should be good enough:D and 100 m is just insane:shock:. Jamie do you any delay in signal at that range? or is performance still responsive?
  
  Edited by – Impreza on 18 August 2003 17:06:11
- August 19, 2003 at 1:37 pm #46917
  Aaron
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  I had mine (complete with foam tyres, retuned supension etc) on the driveway the other night… It’s a short driveway and even then the speed and control can be interesting with the small size of the car.
  
  In my defence it was twilight….
  
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- August 19, 2003 at 3:37 pm #46919
  jamiekulhanek
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  Quote:
  
  GT-ahh got to love a runaway car:) 50 m should be good enough:D and 100 m is just insane:shock:. Jamie do you any delay in signal at that range? or is performance still responsive?
  
  Edited by – Impreza on 18 August 2003 17:06:11
  
  Yes there is a delay Impreza, however it’s only a few millionths of a second or so, so you would not notice anything 🙂
- August 19, 2003 at 4:43 pm #46924
  dgs73
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  i get about 20 metres, then between 20 and 30m it developes a mind of its own, still (sort of) under control (likes to steer itself), outside 30m forget it…
- August 20, 2003 at 5:48 pm #46955
  jamiekulhanek
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  Mine seems to go further than that, i could drive it down the street for ages before it was possessed by satan.
- August 20, 2003 at 6:44 pm #46959
  PandaBear
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  Anyone tried the option RX antenna booster sold
  by Kyosho yet? Its a circuit board that replaces
  your pianowire antenna, and stays under the shell.
  
  (Pianowire is a liability at chez Bear… it’ll
  poke someone’s eye out before long. So I leave
  it off…)
- August 21, 2003 at 3:37 pm #46969
  VR-4
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  yeah dident like it tho. my antena on my mod. z is the gpm mini antena works good and looks cool and its like the ant. on the remote 😉 .
- August 21, 2003 at 4:37 pm #46976
  dgs73
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  though about getting one but dont trust the strength of reception. How good are those retractables, VR-4?(compared with stock.) Think I may have to get one. As long as the position can be varied to accommodate different shell sizes (and hence different aerial-hole positions on the shell)
  Anyone semi-local have any spare stock Z aerials unbent, now that I think of it?? blackeye:
- August 21, 2003 at 4:49 pm #46977
  jamiekulhanek
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  Just make one from piano wire, I did, cause my other one got caught in my bag zipper and broke off.
- September 23, 2003 at 4:33 pm #47325
  dgs73
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  tis what I did, Jamie… better reception due to it being 50mm longer too…
- September 23, 2003 at 10:09 pm #47331
  Matt005
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  Mines 30cm long and can be very dangerous. I have poked my eye 3 times and my face to many to count.
- October 17, 2003 at 7:54 pm #47485
  dgs73
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  yeah, mines about that as well. Range is up to easily 30m+ now…:D
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