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Old 11-22-2007, 01:13 PM
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allright so im at my uncles house, and he lives in cayon city. so i brought my S-maxx thinking it would run because he owns 12 acres so i really wanted to run it. it wouldnt start! then i checked the glow plug it was fine but the ignighter was dead or something so my BRILLIANT uncle decided to hook and alligator clip and a battery eliminator! 3 volts IT LIT UP LIKE THE SUN! bright white. it started! i ran it for a long time. so you should all ways bring a volt meter to the races! just incase!

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Old 11-22-2007, 02:01 PM
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volt meter? why would that help?
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Old 11-22-2007, 02:31 PM
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Your post makes no sense. Your glo-ignighter was dead and when you hooked a voltmeter up to it, it suddenly worked? What?

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Old 11-22-2007, 03:22 PM
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hows that?
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Old 11-22-2007, 04:47 PM
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it sounds as though his uncle used another vehicle, which was electric. It had an esc with a BEC (battery elemination circuit). This allows you to run your servos and other electronics off of the input battery and steps down the voltage to 5 or 6 volts and 3 amps. He then alligator clipped the glow ignitor wire to the bec output on the esc.

You can actually take a radio with a 3rd channel and wire it up through an esc to use an an onboard glow ignitor. Thhis means when you flip the switch to activate the 3rd switch it will automatically start the truck. One of the magazines did this to a jato some time last year--looked pretty cool for bashing purposes.
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Old 11-22-2007, 07:16 PM
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nope, he used a thing that you could controll the amps and just have raw power and it worked
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Originally Posted by pinky2252s
nope, he used a thing that you could controll the amps and just have raw power and it worked
Raw power from what?
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an outlet, you pluged it in and basicly you just had raw power from it



lol F.U.N! funny sponge
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That doesn't sound very smart. Unless you or your uncle is an electrician, I wouldn't recommend messing around with your house's electrical system.

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Old 11-23-2007, 04:23 AM
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sounds like he used an adjustable lab power supply!
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Old 11-23-2007, 10:24 AM
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it wasnt like it was going to explode, its what you used when you needed to charge your car battery. thats why it had an ajustable amp power. i only went up to 3 amps

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Old 11-23-2007, 09:43 PM
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why not take this thread to dumbest thread topics ever???
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Originally Posted by rhymster
why not take this thread to dumbest thread topics ever???
OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!
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do you not agree?
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Originally Posted by rhymster
do you not agree?
Yes its a weird thing to start a thread for, but ,but ,but ok your right it is retarded
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