RC Nightmare Community Blog
MacGyver: Plastic Bottle Gas Tank
Let’s consider a hypothetical situation. Let’s say one night, after you have just broken in your brand new nitro truck, you go out racing with your buddy instead of sleeping. Let’s say you guys had a blast and in a moment of excitement you turned your Nitro truck abruptly into a concrete lamp post, head on, at top speed!?… hypothetically of course! What kind of shape would you expect your truck to be in??
Expect it to be in this kind of shape!!
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Installing Battery Connector on Kinetic ESC
The Novak Kinetic/Ballistic does not come with connectors for connecting to batteries. The bad part about this is that you will need to do an extra step before you get up and running. However, the good part is that you have the option to install whatever kind of connectors you want! If they came with connectors that you don’t want to use, it’ll have been better if they came with none anyway. Read on »»
Blitz ESE: Installing Electronics
The brushless Novak Kinetic ESC for my Blitz ESE has arrived and it is time to get it installed! I’ve paired the Ballistic 17.5T motor along with the Kinetic ESC. Eventually I want to run a 2.4 GHz radio system but until I have enough funds for a nice radio I will be using the stock HPI TF-1 radio system. Novak does not recommend running an AM radio system with the Kinetic due to RF interference but that’s what it will have to be for now. The servo used is a spare Traxxas 2075 servo which was installed when the steering linkages were assembled. Read on »»







