My new bit got bit slapped! HELP!!!!

TMP · Post by **TMP** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 9:13 pm

i just picked up a new bit clone. i dont know why but i really liked this car, it had fine performance and really nothing wrong unlike most clones. So i take it out with me somewhere, and my little cuzin comes with us. So im drivin it on the floor at this place and it runs dry... so i pick it up and slap in on the charger, then out of nowhere my cousin is spining around and slaps the bit smack off the charger and it flies 8 feet through the air and impacts the ground at high velocity.

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WTF!!!! well ive had bits that endured things like this..but well this one didnt. Now it drives just fine but doesnt steer at all....well maybe a bit of streering but making a turn on my track is impossible. i really really like this car... someone tell me whats wrong and what surgery i must perform.

oh ya.. i havent checked the steering wires yet.. but seeing that it does infact steer a little proves there ok. oh wait, my brain is fried... i did check them, and there ok.

ph2t · Post by **ph2t** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 10:09 pm

pull apart the front end and re-assemble it. Check the steering magnet to ensure it is seated correctly.

ph2t.

Finks · Post by **Finks** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 8:25 am

Check the steering magnet to ensure it is seated correctly.

That sounds exactly like what it is to me seeing that it does stear a little.

TMP · Post by **TMP** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 6:11 pm

hmm steering magnet.... im taking it apart as i type. ok, undid the tiny screw, pulled off the front....ok the magnet is infact knocked off balance... so i fixed the magnet... and now the little metal springy thing got stuck to the magnet and i forgot how it goes back on...this is probably the thing that resets the wheels after there attracted to the coils. how does it go back on? i tried a few ways but they dont do anything.

betty.k · Post by **betty.k** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 7:45 pm

here ya go man. this should have everything you need to know:

http://www.ausmicro.com/tech/bitcharg/f ... /index.asp

TMP · Post by **TMP** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 9:57 pm

oh boy! ok the steering works now. but i must have broken this wire in the making. now the wheels dont spin. i traced the wire back and stuck in on the ground section of the pcb... i tested, the wheels spun. so i made a quick fix and used a teeny tiny piece of electrical tape to put it to ground for temporary. well now it doesnt go in reverse, but it goes twice the speed in forward

. my electrical tape didnt hold so i took it off. man i feel like a brain surgeon.

betty.k · Post by **betty.k** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 8:32 am

heh heh! steep learning curve, hey!

have a look at this

http://www.ausmicro.com/tech/bitcharg/w ... /index.asp

soldering the wires is the only way to go. you might get away with twisting wires together and using tape for a while, but it just don't cut it