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Its really sad to see what’s happend to this forum 🙁 Used to be one of the best, if not THE best!

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Anyone there???

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I’d like a couple v4s as well 🙂

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Aaron told me months ago he had a large quan***y of Spiders he wanted to unload. I was under the impression he was going to start selling them again through the store or eBay. But I haven’t been here in a while, so not sure what happened. Is Aaron back or AWOL?

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Haven’t visited for a while because the forums were dead, or only had spam posts. Glad to see its active again. I learned most of what I know about FETs, turbos, and motors from the forums here when I got into XMODS 4-5 years ago. I have since graduated to Mini-Zs and most of that knowledge has served me well. Thanks to everyone that contributes here and I look forward to the revival. Happy winter!

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Glad to hear Mini-Z enthusiasm is still alive and well down under. I learned most of what I know about FETs, external turbos, uberdashes and plasma dashes from the guys there. That was when I was still playing with XMODS. I’m almost done with the last of them (still 5 more to sell), as I am now exclusively into Mini-Zs. I have an RCP track at home, but there is a track at a LHS about an hour from my home and I’ve been to race a few times on Thursdays. Loads of fun!

If I ever make it to Aus, I’ll be sure to make time to check out the Mini-Z scene.

Enjoy!

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Doubt it! Aaron told me in April that the store ordering function had been disabled , but that he would be resuming operation and wanted to move a lot of stock to take care of some personal issues. Later in April he promissed to send me a replacement Spider. Never got it and haven’t heard from him since.

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Great News! Just heard from Aaron! He is back, but not in full capacity, and will be straightening out all past unfilled/unrefunded orders starting next week.

For those of you that placed an order you never recevied and were unable to get your money back through PayPal, you should expect to hear from Aaron in a week’s time or so.

In the mean time, he tells me the shop’s ordering option has been disabled.

WELCOME BACK AARON!:beer:

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Great News! Just heard from Aaron! He is back, but not in full capacity, and will be straightening out all past unfilled/unrefunded orders starting next week.

For those of you that placed an order you never recevied and were unable to get your money back through PayPal, you should expect to hear from Aaron in a week’s time or so.

In the mean time, he tells me the shop’s ordering option has been disabled.

WELCOME BACK AARON!:beer:

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No problem. I felt it was only fair to give you first dibs.

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Bigmike,

rycexboi has made me an offer on my last remaining Spider v4. But I told him you had inquired first and so I wanted to give you first dibs on it. I’ve responded to your PM, but no response. Hope you see this post and get back to me soon.

Thanks!

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I bought 3 when they first came out, and still have one in the bag. Where do you live?

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If you look at some of the other threads, you’ll see others haven’t received their orders either, some for months. Apparently Aaron is AWOL. Its a shame because my past dealings with him and the store were always exceptional.

Makes me wonder if he is OK.

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For what its worth, I just noticed EGR is selling the SP8M4s as an Atomic product. They are a reliable source and ship mighty quick. Some orders take 7 days from order date to delivery date in US.

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WOW! Haven’t been on this forum for a while and I am surprised to hear about the problems of unfilled orders.

In past dealings with Aaron, he has been very responsive to questions and has shipped all items promptly. It usually takes 2 weeks from order to receipt of items in US. But I have only ordered from his eBay store and my last order was in March.

I can certainly understand your frustrations with unfilled orders and lack of response. But it makes me wonder if Aaron is OK.

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@CowboySiR03 228959 wrote:

I remember reading an article from Christian Tabush about the merits of the sp8m’s on a 2.4GHz board for a “world cup” prepped AWD he was making. If you get a chance (since I don’t recall his exact words) check his reflexracing.net site and read pt 1 of his AWD story…there you’ll find that he replaced just the top fet setup with the sp8m’s so he essentially created a 3010/sp8m mix for his board that can run quality motors that are excellent for world cup level racing events.

As for me, i have an AD band board that has a mix such as described above that is too fast for most tracks with a 37ish turn neo mag motor…it has to be turned to about 60% throttle before it is even useable on any track i build (and I have six wide oval RCP’s to connect together:smiley14: )

My mistake…8858’s were the fet I read about…

That is where I got the idea and even spoke to Christian about it. He seems to think it is a viable option, and he should know. I appreciate it being an easier installation, but sense a total replacement with 2×2 SP8M4s would be better than adding a layer of SP8M4s

As LL3 suggested, I could try the easier route first and do a total replacement if not satisfied. Will update with results once I have a chance to do this.

Thanks Cowboy

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@LL3 228628 wrote:

Hey again Traveler,
Just “stacking” a new layer of the SP8M4 Fets on top of one of the sides of 3010 Fets on the 2.4 boards is a viable upgrade. You will get some of the performance of the SP8M4 Fets, but not all. The current will split among the 3010’s and the SP8M4 Fets, with more current being sent thru the SP8M4’s than thru the 3010’s. This method is easier than the full-replacement method, and will allow you to use some hotter motors. But the 3010’s still limit the performance somewhat, and there is more of a chance of blowing an FET than if you replace all four 3010 Fets with SP8M4. It just depends on what you want. You could always try the “extra layer” approach and see how you like it.
If you want to run some super-hot hand-winds (Hotter than say a Chili) then replacing all 3010’s with SP8M4’s is better IMO. Also, if you want a 2×3 SP8M4 FET setup, then simply do a 2×2 stack on one side of the PCB and a 1×2 layer on the other. Hope this helps.

Thanks for the info! Even though a hybrid may work, I just don’t like the idea. I may add a layer of 3010s left over from other board upgrades first and see how I like that. Then I can do an all SP8M4 board 2×2 or 3×2.

So far I am very impressed with the performance of the two pairs of 3010s on the stock 2.4 Ghz boards, but haven’t used any “hot” motors yet.

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Thanks for the response on this and my other post LL3. That is what I suspected, I just hate to go ripping perfectly good FETs off boards if I don’t need to. I may live with stock 2×2 3010s for a while as they seem to handle anything I’ve tried so far.

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Any attempts at installing a Spider on the new 2.4 Ghz boards? Assume all 4 3010 FETs would need to be removed? Don’t want to fry my board or v4.0 spider so please help!

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OK. So now I have 4 2.4 Ghz Mini-Zs and want to use some of my remaining SP8M4 FETs on these boards. Any suggestions???

On the AM Mini-Z boards, I removed the 2×1 3010s and replaced with 2×2 SP8M4s. But the new boards have 4 3010s. Pair on top and pair on bottom. I was thinking of replacing all 4 with SP8M4s in same configuration. But a Mini-Z expert here in the US suggests adding a pair of SP8M4s on top of the exisiting 3010s. That would be a 3×2 stack, 2×2 3010 and 2×1 SP8M4. Aside from easier installation, what are the benefits/downsides of this approach to total replacement???

Thanks!

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Good luck Andrew. And be sure to check out Kenon hobbies in Arcadia. Here is there site http://www.rckenon.com

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Yeah man! Happy Birthday Aaron. Cheers! :beer:

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Negative, but good question. Made me go look! The le mans cars are a MM with the mono rear shock, but a little different configuration than the standard MR-02s. Here is a pic of the le mans chassis.

If I don’t like the new suspension system on the Countach, I can try to find the le mans rear suspension parts and try them. 😀

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Jimmy,

The answer is yes! I don’t have an MR-01, but the v4.0 info in the store says:

The Spider v4.0 Black Widow can be installed in the following Chassis:

Kyosho Mini-Z MR-01, MR-02, MR-015, MA-010
Kyosho Mini-Z Overland, Mini-Z Monster
Kyosho Mini-Z Boats
iWaver 01, 02, 02M, 04
Firelap 02, Bigfoot
Losi Micro-T Buggy and Baja
RadioShack Xmods Generation1
RadioShack XMods EVO

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Nice job! This will come in handy when I get around to installing the v4.0 in my AWD. Thanks!

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