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  • July 18, 2005 at 9:12 pm in reply to: Announcing: Spider – External FET board #19405
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    Yes Betty. Credit where it’s due! Like the the WoahNelly (http://www.woahnelly.com) turbos the rainbow wires are for the gate signals. At the end of the day this is the best, most idiot-proof and cost effective for production way of handling the Gate signals.

    Likewise the removal of stock FETs. Units running off the motor terminals simply do not have the fine throttle response and outright performance that a FET substition type mod has.

    I’ve murmered about buliding a small S-08 package based unit for a while and this is the first ‘production’ version. Having gone through the process of doing the board designs and getting them made commercially has proven interesting and I can already see where improvements can happen.

    My key goal with Spider was to match the width of the Mini-Z PCB and allow for different cooling, cabling and mounting options, this also lets us be very flexible on pricing as you can buy a board with FETs supplying your own wires for a lower price.

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    July 18, 2005 at 8:58 pm in reply to: rcp mini-96 track anyone ? #19407
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    I was going to stop in a C-R today and check out what they have here in Canberra… but the whole MX5 battery saga killed too much time today :/

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    July 18, 2005 at 3:09 pm in reply to: Sunday Races……..Sydney GTG!!!! #19426
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    Pete, you’ll be getting something more special this week 🙂

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    July 18, 2005 at 2:11 pm in reply to: Announcing: Spider – External FET board #19429
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    Closeup of the ‘Business End’

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    July 15, 2005 at 2:04 pm in reply to: New to Mini-Z’s… #19455
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    We’ll know for sure when they lad, but they look to be 02MM

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    July 15, 2005 at 11:47 am in reply to: New to Mini-Z’s… #19460
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    OK Current iWaver GT40s are not MR02 compatibale (almost but not quite)

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    July 14, 2005 at 9:43 pm in reply to: monster overland compatability questions… #19461
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    *noted*

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    July 14, 2005 at 9:41 pm in reply to: New to Mini-Z’s… #19464
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    Actually just to correct things about Firelap… No-one (myself included) knows how TE will be using the iWaver and the Firelap branding. What I do know is I have a pair of Firelap 4.0s coming in and currently have 2x IW02 in stock and a IW04 🙂

    MR15 may be a cheaper entry to Kyosho… (and has brakes)

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    July 14, 2005 at 8:15 pm in reply to: Sunday Races……..Sydney GTG!!!! #19468
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    Yeah sorry guys – I knew i wanted to ensure Pete got his chassis back (running OK?) befoer the weekend, and couldn’t have done it leaving here going home packing the extra stuff and posting… sent it after work last night (18:30)….

    Been here since 7:15 this morning, and likely to be here til ’bout the same tonight…. So far things are just peachy… not…

    Got packs and will send tomorrow!

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    July 14, 2005 at 4:37 pm in reply to: monster overland compatability questions… #19477
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    I’ll do some checking for you Josh 🙂

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    July 14, 2005 at 4:36 pm in reply to: New to Mini-Z’s… #19484
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    Welcome aboard!

    There are a few options. iWavers are definately getting better witht he IW02 being a lot better than the IW01s. The bodies are typically Narrow unless you buy Kyosho…. BUT I will do a mount test of a GT40 onto an iWaver chassis tonight.

    iWaver are currently re-jigging their line-up and supply is very limited, it is probably worthwhile waiting for the Firelap 2.0 modesl due Real-soon-now… They are the next evoltion from the IW02.

    Timing systems are hard work, a former collegue of mine (the dude behind DingoTimer which is big in Slot-car these days) looked into a transponder version and the costs of development were stupidly high, as ways the cost of implementing a system.

    One advantage of Kyosho is braking 🙂 IW don’t do brakes except psuedo braking in their up-scale transmitters.

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    July 13, 2005 at 10:05 pm in reply to: Aoshima/Skynet Limited Editions #19497
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    I’ll try to remember to measure it tonight 🙂

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    July 13, 2005 at 5:17 pm in reply to: rcp mini-96 track anyone ? #19524
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    *nods* And he did credit you with it 🙂 It’s a great find, I shall be very interested to see the outcomes 🙂

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    July 13, 2005 at 5:08 pm in reply to: monster overland compatability questions… #19526
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    There won’t be iWaver alloy (which btw ain’t that cheap…) for the OL but what stauff can be swapped witht he Monster there’s a good chance 🙂

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    July 13, 2005 at 4:58 pm in reply to: rcp mini-96 track anyone ? #19522
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    Yup. Got the e-mail and here”s the magic!

    foamtrack1.jpg

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    foamtrack4.jpg

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    Clark Rubber you have to be able to supply this sorta stuff!

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    July 13, 2005 at 2:52 pm in reply to: monster overland compatability questions… #19534
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    It looks like the iWaver Alliy suspension mounts for Monsters have three height settings for the shocks like the Kyosho parts 🙂

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    July 13, 2005 at 1:00 pm in reply to: i got me an overland! #19539
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    Yup – everyone is welcome to submit pics to the PIctures section! (Nice work ont he paint too)

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    July 13, 2005 at 12:57 pm in reply to: Help please – “non replaceable” lithium battery #19538
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    And here I was waiting to read about the entire thing blowing up in some tragic disaster! Nice work!

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    July 13, 2005 at 12:56 pm in reply to: Sunday Races……..Sydney GTG!!!! #19548
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    Pete should be up and running this week again….. 🙂

    Pete I’ll talkt o you today (likewise Dave)

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    July 7, 2005 at 5:00 pm in reply to: My search is over! #19583
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    Try http://www.rainbowten.co.jp

    They used to list a lot of the MiniPower stuff

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    July 7, 2005 at 1:58 pm in reply to: Sunday Races……..Sydney GTG!!!! #19579
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    Yup – still there 🙂

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    July 7, 2005 at 1:15 pm in reply to: My search is over! #19589
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    I thinkI can still get MR2s…. Will check…

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    July 7, 2005 at 1:12 pm in reply to: Sunday Races……..Sydney GTG!!!! #19592
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    Yeah they’re being dumped in a few places around the globe and while $135 may not be attainable there’s some numbers very close.

    BTW dgs, the white readyset Pajeros are gone 🙁

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    July 6, 2005 at 7:18 pm in reply to: Blobs, Sticks and Steps…. #19594
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    I’ve relented and decided Blobby (those in Syd who saw a protoype ‘blobby’ also saw how fragile the wiring can be) needs to be mounted on a circuit board. Getting a few boards made up for testing…. But was tinkering with the ‘Bean’ idea today and have come up with a design that is (wait for it) 10mm X 15mm X 7mm! It’s effectively the bobby board design, but manipulated around so that the entire thing can be cut in half and mounted back to back! Ofcourse it cound be made using a double-sided board cutting between 0.8 and 1.6mm from the thickness!

    Must work out how to make Eagle pop things on the ‘other’ side of the board!

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    July 6, 2005 at 1:21 pm in reply to: Sunday Races……..Sydney GTG!!!! #19601
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    roll-Overland!

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