Anti-boost Mod

Yagbols · Post by **Yagbols** » Mon Jul 28, 2003 8:43 pm

Hey thats great dave! gotta try that out too

noxorc · Post by **noxorc** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 8:48 pm

yea know Dave...
if your camera was just that little bit clearer...we could see the colors on that resister...but NO...

can you tell us the color codes or take another picture or tell us the value?

ph2t · Post by **ph2t** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 10:49 pm

BROWN-BLACK-RED = 1K Ohm resistor.

ph2t.

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 11:51 pm

Very good ph2t, but I did state in my original post that I used a 1k resistor.

It doesn't seem to matter what value, but I'd stay in the 1-10k range.

Sorry about the crappy pic, sometimes I just can't take a decent pic, don't know why...

ph2t · Post by **ph2t** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 12:12 am

whoops! missed that! I guess Noxia and I just like to look at purdy little pictures.

Maxximum Attack · Post by **Maxximum Attack** » Mon Aug 25, 2003 2:47 pm

I don't wa

nt to seem out of the loop, but what is the wattage on the resistors. The lady wuddent sell me unless i told her the wattage. I have bug plans for this mod.

hogjowlz · Post by **hogjowlz** » Mon Aug 25, 2003 2:50 pm

im guessing you wont need anymore than 1amp but probably .5 is fine.

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Mon Aug 25, 2003 4:37 pm

I used 1/4 watt resistors.

these ones right here:
http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?c ... 271%2D1321

Maxximum Attack · Post by **Maxximum Attack** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 4:31 pm

Crazydave,

I think i did it wrong. I'll post a pic later. But my batteries are heating up VERY fast, and no lights are comming on. I used a 10k resistor, 0.5 watts.

help

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 4:49 pm

Maxximum Attack wrote:Crazydave,

I think i did it wrong. I'll post a pic later. But my batteries are heating up VERY fast, and no lights are comming on. I used a 10k resistor, 0.5 watts.

help

If the batteries are getting hot, then you've got a dead short, and you've definately wired it wrong.

Make sure the copper strip you cut is cut all the way through, and not just the green coating. I actually sawed about halfway into my PCB just to make sure I had broken contact, because the metal kinda stretches before it breaks..

If that's not it, look at this picture from the original tutorial on BitMod, his picture is a lot clearer that mine, maybe you can see how you've wired it wrong.

Maxximum Attack · Post by **Maxximum Attack** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 5:04 pm

Make sure the copper strip you cut is cut all the way through, and not just the green coating. I actually sawed about halfway into my PCB just to make sure I had broken contact, because the metal kinda stretches before it breaks..

I wired it correctly but i did not know that you had to acctually had to cut the PCB. Can you make it clearer where to cut it?

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 5:22 pm

Aww, well see we've found the problem at least.

You cut the one on the left in the picture, the side with the black wire.

See in the picture above where they added a red line?

Maxximum Attack · Post by **Maxximum Attack** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 5:52 pm

thanx ill chack back with you tomorrow.

THANX

VooDooMafia · Post by **VooDooMafia** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 7:15 pm

OK I am going to try this mod onthe LXX booster car I just got but just to clear things up.

1.I cut the board were the red line is(how deep)
2.Add a piece of wire were the blue line is(from nub to nub)
3.Add resistor were purple line is(from nub to nub)
4.put back together and race

Just want to make sure this is corrrect before I start

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Thu Aug 28, 2003 8:36 am

Yep you got it. Just cut that strip as deep as you have to to make sure it's separated, but not so deep that you cut all the way through the board.

You know your simplified instructions are probably gonna be more helpful to people than mine.

I go rambling on, trying to cover everything so no one has ask to questions, and then it's more than people want to read, and everyone asks questions.