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Re: 8475 and 8366 RC buggies Receiver unit
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lugnet.technic
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Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:14:46 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Stephane Simard wrote:
> So far so good. None of my two receiving units stopped working so far (bought
> the sets the year they came out).
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> I am most nervous about the internal steering motor since should it fail, the
> entire receiving unit is useless.
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> Anybody yet had one of their fail? I'm not talking about the large motors, only
> about the receiving unit which houses the steering motor.
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> Has anybody ever dismantled one of those? I'd be very interesting in looking at
> how the steering motor works.
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> The new power functions are great, but for fast rc buggies with responsive
> steering, the 8475/8366 parts are still the way to go.
I dismantled the one from my 8475 because I was sick of the steering slightly
over-running when it centred up again.
It uses a quarter-gear a bit like the end of this bionicle piece:
http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=41667
And it makes electrical contact with a series of arcs etched on a circuit board
in a sort of binary pattern. From the range of arc sections it makes contact
with, the controller knows roughly what angle it's at. It then uses a small
motor to drive it to the left or right, until it detects it's in the right
position. But it's a bit of a slack mechanism, and the motor is prone to
over-running, so it's not very good at centering itself properly.
Jason R
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| (...) Did you by chance happen to take any pics? Yes, I have heard many complaints about over-running steering, so I consider myself lucky, both of mine center perfectly. The sets came with a steering extension (with the rack and pinion inside) that (...) (17 years ago, 8-Feb-08, to lugnet.technic)
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| | 8475 and 8366 RC buggies Receiver unit
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| So far so good. None of my two receiving units stopped working so far (bought the sets the year they came out). I am most nervous about the internal steering motor since should it fail, the entire receiving unit is useless. Anybody yet had one of (...) (17 years ago, 6-Feb-08, to lugnet.technic)
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