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Re: Advance Technic Car + Remote Control Car
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Wed, 11 Sep 2002 04:27:20 GMT
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Installing motors into an 8448 is simple. In fact, they make room for 2
motors. (one in the front, one in the back). If you want to add the third
and keep the gull wing doors, you'll have to do some modification, but not
too much, to fit 2 motors side by side in the back. In my opinion, it's not
worth it to motorize the 8448 fully keeping all of the engine/transmission
features. It's cool in a way because you see the entire car moving and you
can see the speed difference from changing transmissions. It's also not too
hard to write an RC program (provided you have two RCX bricks) to control
the car (just send a lot of messages...). The unrewarding part comes when
you oberve the speed....it's nothing too astounding. Even with 3 motors
working in unison, the combined weight of the 8448/RCX/natural friction is
just too much for it to be fun. The 8475 motors are significantly better
though and people have gotten good results with that...
Another thing you could do (and Jake Rentar did this) is to put the motors
directly to the wheels...eliminating as much friction as possible. This
gives you non-straight driving if your motor power outputs are different but
it also gives you the most amount of power you can have.
From what I've seen, the 8466 is significantly harder to motorize than the
8448.
Luke
"rsalim" <rivaisalim@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3D7E8E84.2090902@hotmail.com...
> It seems that a lot of people here, did this already.
> I have 8448, and I really wonder which extra set that would be a good
> combo to make my 8448 as a remote control car.
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> Some people did this with Mindstorm, but I read a couple post below that
> you need 1 motor for streering, and about + - 3 motors for driving
> (travel + - 15 mph).
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> It seems to me that most advance technic car are huge, and the friction
> for the gearbox + others(such as engine) seems to be a lot, to be
> powered by a single lego motor.
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> Anyone tried combine it with 8475?
> I really wonder how fast can you go with it. (with/without gearbox)
> What is the remote control range? Is it easy to install/plug it into
> any advance technic car such as 8448 or 8466?
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> I think it's a bit pricy for 283 pieces at 129.99. But what do you guys
> think?
>
>
> Let us know your if you have any commentc regarding putting together
> Advance Technic Car + Remote Control Car
>
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| (...) Perhaps I could help a bit here from first-hand experience with the 8466. After much debate, I had decided not to buy the RC car (129.99) for motorizing the 8466. So instead I tried it with the rcx and/or standard battery pack (as seen in (...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| It seems that a lot of people here, did this already. I have 8448, and I really wonder which extra set that would be a good combo to make my 8448 as a remote control car. Some people did this with Mindstorm, but I read a couple post below that you (...) (22 years ago, 11-Sep-02, to lugnet.technic)
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