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Damn rain. Wanted to test out the 1:10 today, had all my battery packs charged.

The charger ain’t too bad at all. Takes 90 mins to charge a 3300 pack at 1.5 amps.

Takes 40 mins to charge a 1100 pack at 0.5 amps.

Does 2 batt packs at the same time.

Has bannana sockets, so you can hook up aaa/aa battery holders to charge if needed.

Takes ac/dc source.

Requires a pc power supply cable ($2 from Jaycar)

Not too bad in my opinion for the price.

I’m happy with it.

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Who’s in for some high speed circuit racing on the day ?

My fingers are itching, and the Z’s have a thick layer of dust on them.

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Woohoo… finally got the charger from the US and it came as normal post. Worked out to be $113USD delivered.

I’m going to rtfm tonight and do some deans plug soldering tonight.

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Feb 6th sounds good, but will have to see what the temperatures are like on the day… Hopefully a lot cooler than some of the weekend temps that we’ve been having lately.

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Yes mini-z’s are great when you’ve got that rc bug and want to play at home…

And yes it’s addictive, just check out my photo gallery and see all the gear that I’ve got.:)

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How much did the NML cost you ?

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http://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=258005

LOL. Nice one.

Awesome footage. 😀

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Looks very nice. How much is it ?

Noticed that the spur gear cover has been replaced with those carbon upper braces exposing the the pinion and spur to rocks right ?

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thanks for that which one are you planning on getting

I’m going to get the superbrain 969 pro as it comes with the 240V power supply unit and can also run off car battery and can charge two stick packs at the same time. Don’t want the hassles of getting a seperate 12V DC psu – I think these are around the $80 AUD mark ?

It may not be the best, but it’s within my budget.

Merc, sounds like you got some serious stuff happening there.

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hello i was woundering if someone could help me i am in need of a good quick charger for my sanyo 3600 mAh battery i need something that is going to keep my battery in good condition and not take long to charge

Yeah, I’m also looking for a good charger as well… Here are a few that I have in mind.

Chargetronic – about $130 AUD
http://www.masterinstruments.com.au/browse/Model/ChargetronicAC_DC_Digital_Charger.html

Superbrain 969 pro – about $170 AUD shipped
http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXEVC7&P=7

Apex MU+ & AC Power Supply – about $130 AUD Shipped
http://www.rcmart.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=421_37_53&products_id=1394

Eagle CDC 6.0/b – cream of the crop but needs a seperate power supply to run off mains ? Can someone confirm this ?
http://www.rcmart.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=421_37_53&products_id=3416

You can also get cheaper DC only ones like Duratrax Piranha for like $50 AUD.

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arrr the gmaxx cells are NOTHING compared to the GPs and sanyos.. i ran cheapo generic 3300s before my current matched sanyo 2400s and i got better performance and runtime from the 2400s because there were better cells in better packs

Yeah, the gmaxx will be the weekly bash around batteries.

For novice racing I’ll be getting me a couple of gp 3300s.

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buy 1 get 1 free??

can you provide a linky plz kev?

Sure can…

http://www.rcmart.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=421_52_351&products_id=9877

Well, I’m assuming the (1+1) When you place it in your cart, it goes to like 1.2 kg, so I guess I’m assuming the offer is still valid.

BTW shipping is a killer, works out to be like $33AUD per stick pack in the end.

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any luck runing your rc18t yet kev?

No mate, waiting on a charger to be shipped from hong kong, it’s going to take something like a month or so because it’s coming on actual ship in a 10kg box with other stuff.

Either that or buy a step down transformer to plug in the 110V charger, but that’s like $50 and the slow charger takes like 10 hours to charge up the batts so not really worth it.

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I’m also learning the ropes with all these batteries.

I’ve placed an order for those g-maxx 3300 buy one get one free from rcmart for $29.95 USD.

Was also looking at gp 3300 and intellect 3300 from the usual places…

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That’s very nice. I like the lexan tub that protects the chassis.

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Got my 18t today, looks nice in the box, controller looks tacky and feels cheap though. Even though it’s team ae, it appears to be made in china.

I’m afraid this is going to be a shelf queen for a while, bloody came with a 110 volt charger. :angry:

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I went for the TB02 as well because it suited my budget, has the flexibility of suspension adjustments and also because I prefer to source tamiya parts from the east rather than the west just personal preference I guess.

I haven’t got mine running yet, just rolling chassis and kit forms at the moment, so can’t offer any opinions on how well it handles…

The only downfall of this chassis is the motor mount having fixed holes for mounting the motor pinion gear from the spur gear (I think Tamiya wanted racers to use equal gearing for racing). Factory standard, the highest gear setting you can use is 5.70:1 with the 25 tooth pinion gear (option part) and the 55 tooth spur gear. However there a work arounds to get higher gearing by buying gears from other tamiya chassis. Some time in the future, I’m pretty sure someone will be making an adjustable motor mount for this chassis, perhaps a TB02-R…

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Just got my package as well.

Thank you.

Cheers,
K.:D

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The Mini-z did it for me for 2004. But 2005 will be a new learning curve as I get acquainted with a 4wd rc18t monster truck and 1:10 ep tourers.

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you getting them from hobbyco kev?

tell us the price for those items dude.

i need them and a set of white dish rims plus rubber for em.

Yes. f201 high speed gear set is about $16, pinions are about $14.

team sorex dish rims are $11.95 set of 4.

Suggest you get your rubber tyres from overseas if you want to save some money.

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Yep just a bit too hot yesterday for me looks like the christmas shopping is done.

Who’s up for some mini-z drag racing next year ?

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thanks man, but it looks like we wont need that much topspeed with the novice races if we live through the first 2 or 3 laps we can win lol.

def need newer ratios.

Yeah, funny how everyone in the novice race crashed out and retired leaving one person driving on the track and he didn’t need any help crashing into track barriers either.

I’m going to pick up my gear set and pinions tommorow…

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Hey Talldude,

I’ve been looking into the gearing and it looks like you can gear the TB02 down to a 5.4:1 instead of the factory limit of 5.75:1.

All you need to do is to buy the following:

-Tamiya f201 high speed gear set which comes with a 52t spur gear.
-Tamiya 24t & 25t AV pinion gear set.

28t pinions are available from third parties such as http://www.kawadamodel.co.jp/partslist/0.6module/window_0.6module.html
which can gear it down to 4.83:1 but I can’t find any online retailer that supplies these pinions outside of japan.

This should help in getting some top speed out of the stocker.

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Edited by – kevsta on 19 December 2004 22:02:40

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Thanks for that Panda.

I’ll give it a try. I was taking off the ball diff cover and pulling out the ball diff to adjust it.

Edited by – kevsta on 19 December 2004 22:04:13

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true, true… but how do you make a point without the politically correct crowd getting rowdy? We just want them to know how alot of us Zers feel about that pvc everywhere. You mentioned one or two bits of hair? How about one or two thousand bits of fine pvc everywhere? This I think is Pete’s gripe… and well justified

Oh, my point about the hair was, yes I would prefer to remove hair rather than fine particles of pvc and yes it was also affecting my handling because it was reducing tyre grip, and yes I took extra long to maintain the car afterwards and who knows what it’s doing to our systems if we’re inadvertently inhaling it when a gust of wind decides to blow it in our direction.

I’m sure the drifters weren’t aware of all the pvc dust being left behind and the ill affects of it on other racers.

All we can do I think is to ask and to be nice about it.

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