Came in the Novak bag, correctly marked as such. I put a full size Kraft servo in there for reference. they are the same color of tan, although hard to see. Although not easily seen in the photos, the kraft servo is at least 30-40% bigger.
What are we looking at here with the tan bantam midgets from Novak. I thought they were all orange. the bag says Novak NES-1 bantam midget servo, kraft connector.
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Little more digging, found this from Novak on another forum:
"...Yes, the famous Bantam Midget servo!! And, a trip down Memory Lane. All radio companies used different input harnesses and each company had its own color---orange was about the only color left 32 years ago so we nabbed orange...
Kraft was gold, Royal blue, Proline (the other one), cream, Delta red, Ace white, KO black. (Notice: American companies---all gone!) Novak offered bout 9 different small servos--different colors and input harnesses. Bob designed the first electronic MOSFET esc in the early 80's; Tekin (original) came out with his MOSFET esc about the same time. Much friendly debate ensued. I was first; no, I was first...."
Looks like was just a color variance, as I read it. Must not have been all that popular until after they became orange.
I enjoy, Schumacher 1/12th, Checkpoint motors, Lazerlite motors, PB Sizzler, Pro Panther-10, Dialed Speed Controls, Paranoia spurs.
Novak offered a variety of colors for the Bantam Midgets before the orange color became their standard. I remember going to Bob's house in Santa Ana in probably 1979 and buying a bunch of different color cases, it was great to have the variety. That was before Novak had their first building, everything was run out of their house!
It has been a while since I wanted to present these early NOVAK products and gather them all in one thread. While the NOVAK timeline is really nicely done, it appears that their very early products, particularly the ESC's, are missing.
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Nice. I think they're wrong about the Bantam being 4-time world champion though. By the first electric world championship in 1982 most of the racers had already moved from the Bantam to the NES1A servo. I don't think a Bantam ever made it into a...
I got it in my head to do a Novak receiver, this old Novak 1 ESC I got, and a Novak steering servo on my green and gold RC10 build. There are a few complications such as the servo and esc use the older Futaba connectors with some sort of pin...
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lol scrp8, I ll let you know if I give up on this thing.
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Could this mean Traxxas will be making an r/c USAC midget or at least a sprint car soon?
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Traxxas has served as the entitlement sponsor for USAC’s TORC Off-Road Championships for the past two years and provided remote control vehicles for all of USAC’s 2010 driving champions at the USAC ”Night of Champions” in Indianapolis.
Hey guys, I scored this one a few weeks ago for a pretty good price, I just couldn't resist even though I already have a never run early Edinger (see here ) and a few other partial cars. While both cars were most definitely produced at the Edinger...
The Bantam Midget was the servo that Novak used as a base for their own. Here is one in kit form
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The Novak mailing address was 2709-C Orange Ave., Santa Ana, CA 92702. I wonder if being on Orange Avenue influenced Bob to make orange products.
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I picked these up last week to experiment with. They didn't really cost much at all and they work :twisted:
I can program the Cyclone with my own custom parameters or use one of the 20 saved Novak sets to use as profile 4 on the Cyclone. Too bad I...
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Wait, you have a computer with a serial port and diskette drive? :wink:
I'm a Mac guy in all honesty, but yes I do. I found it in the garbage and put XP on it :mrgreen: I use it mainly for the old school Toyota Electronic Parts Catalog Software...