My first table top truck...

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that is awesome work man. how scale is that to a zip zap body?
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Stg you continue to amaze me.
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Post by Sporttracguy »

Scale wise, that jeep liberty body im using is the same length as my zz nsx body so its darn close to zip scale.

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Post by Cheesehead »

Sweet job, man.

Homefly.com carries bearings that would work great for that for about 6$. You can also get them from a guy in France for 2$, but the shipping is likely to be murder.
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Got her up and running! :eek: I just finished painting and installing the window mesh and the fenders. Now all i need to do is get the roof lights working and she will be done.

The 4 wheel drive is amazing, its crazy what a geared down 4 wheeler can climb over with this full suspension.

The steering doesnt turn as much as i would like, does anyone know how to make the steering motor turn more?

Anyways, i figured it was time for an update

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Post by stagg »

More chassis pics. More pictures of crawling, more more more! :-)

Nice work pimp. :)
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Post by civicsr2cool »

keeps lookin better and better :)
more more more pics! and for requests, get ground clearence, chassis lenghts compared to a superslick or zip, max flex.
ha i wanna know what exaclty it looks like i wanna make one! :grin:
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my hat goes off to you man, i'm truly jealous :bowdown:
stagg wrote:More chassis pics. More pictures of crawling, more more more! :-)
what he said! :-o
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Post by Sporttracguy »

Ok guys, ill get you some more pics,,, i have finals all this week so when i get all of my prototypes and projects in ill snap some photos 8-)


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Sporttracguy wrote:The steering doesnt turn as much as i would like, does anyone know how to make the steering motor turn more?
I'll get right on it! :-o

EDIT: Ok buddy, I think I got it...
By use of extra resistors we can "trick" the steering into thinking it's not turning as far as it really is...

The steering pot is a 10k. Now let's say the potential difference is 1.5V respectively at nutral. Fully locked in one direction is 1.2V. And the other direction is 1.8V. By adding extra resistors to the ends of the pot, we can make the steering travel farther to reach it's potential goal.

Let's say you add 3k resistors to either side. It totals up to 16k. Not sure if it makes a difference but you would want that to be 10k again. Using the equasion 1/(1/R1+1/R2)=10k... R1 is 16k, so that would make R2 about 30k.

Basically add a 3k resisor between the green wire and the PCB, and same for the yellow wire, then bridge a 30k resistor between those wires on the PCB.
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this things kicks all kinds and sizes of ass.
niice work STG!
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Post by Clint »

Wow, that is a true work of art.


If nothing else, you can always shorten that front stabilizer,
it'll give some toe-in on the front wheels, and help the turning radius.
With those pins, it looks like an easy mod to do. You can even
experiment with different sizes.
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Post by Sporttracguy »

Nasphere- Thanks a ton, that fixed it right up. I ended up using two 3.3 k resistors for the green and yellow. I bridged the two but it turned out to be too much so i removed that. Steering is perfect now!

Thanks again and ill try to get pics soon

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Sporttracguy wrote:Nasphere- Thanks a ton, that fixed it right up. I ended up using two 3.3 k resistors for the green and yellow. I bridged the two but it turned out to be too much so i removed that. Steering is perfect now!
Good to hear it! :lol: I was going on a whim on that one. Quick idea if you know what I mean...

You've got an awesome truck there dude! I'm with all the rest on this one, vids n pics!
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:-o :-o :-o :-o :eek: :eek: :eek:
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