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Mechanics and Construction => Mechanics and Construction => Topic started by: lewis on March 12, 2007, 11:08:37 AM

Title: big rc
Post by: lewis on March 12, 2007, 11:08:37 AM
i really want to make a rc car more then anything but as i want to use steel or aliminum i will need powerful motors and good batteries do you know of any. any help on this subject will be great e.g stering and speed controller
Title: Re: big rc
Post by: JesseWelling on March 12, 2007, 01:29:09 PM
http://www.robotmarketplace.com/store.html
Has almost every thing you should need
Title: Re: big rc
Post by: Kohanbash on March 12, 2007, 06:50:03 PM
I would avoid the steel since it is heavy.
You can get cheap lightweight aluminum that wont require beastly motors.

If it is RC than you can buy an RC controller that comes with matching crystals and servo's that plug into a receiving unit.
If you are hacking an RC remote than it is sometimes easiest to use generic DC motors that you can also hack from stuff laying around (people might yell at me for suggesting the DC motors).
Title: Re: big rc
Post by: lewis on March 13, 2007, 10:01:48 AM
these motors are costly im on a tight budget
Title: Re: big rc
Post by: Kohanbash on March 13, 2007, 10:33:13 AM
For cheap moters you can go to the local thrift store/good will and buy old RC cars/toys and rip them apart for their motors.
Title: Re: big rc
Post by: Admin on March 16, 2007, 04:46:52 PM
dont forget to consider HDPE (http://www.societyofrobots.com/materials_hdpe.shtml) instead of metal!

more places to find batteries:
http://www.societyofrobots.com/robot_parts_list_battery.shtml
Title: Re: big rc
Post by: Krispy on March 30, 2007, 05:29:43 AM
i know something taht is very powerful, mind you very expensive, not gonna get cheap, and must know what your doing... Its called a rotary engine... not sure if uv heard about before but if u can get that working that thing will FLY... its used in some new cars....
Title: Re: big rc
Post by: sotu on April 05, 2007, 06:52:51 AM
A r/c car isen't to hard to make if u rip another toy car appart. Then it's allmost to easy:P