Funny how I came looking about doing an OIN radio upgrade as well.
I have one these and I thought it might be simple enough to rip out the old board and convert to 2.4ghz. I wanted to keep the stock appearance and function but improve range. My goal is to actually race it in stock buggy.
Funny how I came looking about doing an OIN radio upgrade as well.
I have one these and I thought it might be simple enough to rip out the old board and convert to 2.4ghz. I wanted to keep the stock appearance and function but improve range. My goal is to actually race it in stock buggy.
Momo
If you end up doing this please post a how to thread. I have one and a weekend of work would definitely be worth the look on all the racers faces when a buggy with an ancient radio wins.
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MOmo wrote:I have one these and I thought it might be simple enough to rip out the old board and convert to 2.4ghz. I wanted to keep the stock appearance and function but improve range.
Easy to rip everything out and drop in new electronics, all you have to do is remove all the old circuits and wire a new board onto the two control potentiometers inside.
As for range, transmitter power wasn't regulated back then, quite often the old radios had 500mW of output power while anything from the 90s and later are limited to 100mW. You can find an ancient radio has a much bigger range than a modern radio.
Typicray@rainmans wrote:
If you end up doing this please post a how to thread. I have one and a weekend of work would definitely be worth the look on all the racers faces when a buggy with an ancient radio wins.
About a year ago, I converted my old Futaba wheel TX (the one in my profile pic) to 2.4GHz, and it works great. Writeup with pictures is here:
Just took a look inside a "Brown Box" Futaba like the one MOmo posted a picture of (I happen to have one I cannibalized for parts long ago), and it looks like it doesn't have a separate RF board like the "Silver Box" model, which could make a conversion like I did a bit tricky. Could still be doable if you can find the right signals and cut a few traces on the circuit board, though...
Nice, I did my Sanwa Gemini Exerd several years ago and believe is the first with a 2.4 conversion, it looks harder than it really is but you do need a really hot soldering iron otherwise you will mess it up. I still think the older transmitters are better than the new so why not continue using them
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I though it was about time I showed you guys some stuff because I feel like I've been getting a lot and giving little back. I received this in the post today, it may not be very exiting to anyone else being a U.K. car but it's got me stoked and it's...
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That's an awesome find !
Although as you said you would like comments or advice, my advic would be to not paint it as per the pic on the instructions.
I never liked that scheme.
So I stopped by the track last week and was chatting with a couple of fellow racers. One of them recently got picked up by MRC and is racing the SBV2 and awaiting his new 2wd buggy.
I broght up The subject of vintage cars. One racer has an old...
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Last time I talked to Cliff Lett, he said they threw out several old molds because no one showed any interest in them. :cry:
Looking to buy a nice (but price wise) Transmittter and reciever for my 2.5 T-maxx. Steering servo was bugging out. I switched the throttle and steering wires from the reciever and steering on the throttle channel worked great. Of corse the throttle...
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I looked at that one as well but I just couldn't get over the design. Way too funky looking for me. :? :)
Are these radios worth anything? I'm not big on vintage electronics, but I saw these on craigslist at a pretty cheap price.
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I haven't seen Kraft radios bring any real money before. They are old enought that they no longer comply with FCC regs, so they are technically illegal to use. However, you never know what they will go for on e-bay. Good luck. -Jeff
Does anybody use stick radios anymore? I went to the store today to pick one up and found my options very limited. The shopkeep told me that no one uses them. I feel like such a dinosaur.
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Im still running my original faviorite from 87,Acoms tecniplus.To activate servo reverse you simply undo the gimble and spin it round.Talk about features,this things full of them.