Originally posted by TigeRyan
Radio question for you guys...
Raced my 1/12th scale last night on a small carpet track (very tight racing)
The owner of the track kept telling me to turn up my dual rate (also known as exponential right?) - Did just that and I felt that the car got ultra-twitchy, is this how most of you drive your 1/12th scale cars? I drove another guys car and I could barely make 2 corners in a row with it...
Thanks in advance...
No, dual rate is how much the wheels turn, for example if you set the dual rate at 10% you couldn't turn the car in a barn and 100% would turn in a two foot circle, not real numbers just an example.
Exponential is the sloop of the turning versus input. In other words if you run a lot of exponential the first few degrees of wheel movement (on the radio) would turn the car very little but the last few degrees would turn it a lot. The total amount would be the same. People use exponential to get rid of twitchy ness on the straight away. About 10 to 15 should be max but most people I know don't use any with on-road cars because the steering is not linear with it...............sorry this isn't very clear. Do you get it?
Ted