Alternate Booster Button

chelboed · #1 02-09-2003, 01:20 AM

I'm not sure if this is "BIT SCIENCE" or not, but I don't like the right handed booster button on the Bit Char-g's, so I figured out a REALLY cool alternative for the button placement. I recently purchased a Nissan 350z and 2-cell'd it (had the Layman 3 cell, but the std 2 is more powerful). Anyway, I decided to put in an alternate booster button that I can operate with my left thumb without taking it off the forward button.

Step 1.
Crack that baby open and find the booster button that comes on the standard controller.

2. You will see two solder points on the other side of the board where the button is attached.

3. Solder one wire on each point and run them around the bottom edge of the controller (on the inside).

4. Find a 'normally open' button that is about the same size as the ones in your controller already. I got mine from the forward button of my old clone controller.

5. Drill a hole in the top right hand corner of the forward/reverse pad that you push to operate the controller. Be sure to make the hole just barely big enough for the round part of the button to poke through the pad, and make it far enough away from the corner so the button will fit the underside of the pad.

6. Glue the button into the pad with the round part poking through the pad from the back side to the front. (be sure you don't get glue on the shaft of the round part)

7. Solder those 2 wires to the button. (the button comes with 4 legs you can cut one set of them off so they don't get in the way).

8. Push the remaining legs against the underside of the pad so they don't short out the solder points on the board. I left the legs pointing downward.

9. Put it all back together and try it out. You can push the pad in the forward position and then catch the "Alternate Booster" button with the end of your thumb when you need it. I can even reach it with the same thumb using reverse. (even more comfortable for me than the right handed orig. button.

chelboed · #2 02-09-2003, 01:21 AM

Booster Button

chelboed · #3 02-09-2003, 01:24 AM

Oh yeah, one more thing.

My microsizers came with a 20+ inch antenna on the Tx. My Bit Char-g came with a 14 inch antenna. I had a spare MS Tx laying around, so I switched the whole reel and now I have a long antenna. The bonus is that Now I have a complete grey/black color scheme that matches the car.

ed...

takumi_drifto · #4 02-09-2003, 01:52 AM

awesome mod.. very creative. ^^

chelboed · #5 02-09-2003, 01:58 AM

Thanks, I dunno if I'm just dislexic cixelsid, or have a left/right brain thing going on, but the right hand boost just sucked for me.

isk8blind · #6 02-09-2003, 10:02 AM

dude thats a pretty sweet mod!now instead of missing the boost button up on top since you cant see it you can just slide your finger up SSSSSWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEETTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nghts · #7 02-09-2003, 02:42 PM

it looks like a greaT idea...but I dont really understand how it would work

nrmcj · #8 02-09-2003, 03:44 PM

sweet idea!! that's gotta be one of the smartest things anyone has done! now to get my booster...

basically just rewire the button rite?

chelboed · #9 02-09-2003, 04:35 PM

It works exactly like the other boost button.

The way the stock controller works is like saying you need to have two gas pedals in your car. Why not control the speed with just one hand.

In all reality, both buttons work. You just have the option of controlling the speed (boost) with the same hand that you make it go forward and reverse. You don't alter the function of the origional button, you just add one.

Trust me, it rocks!!!

Silent_NightR34 · #10 02-09-2003, 07:18 PM

does any1 still put things in the tips&mod area?anyways this is hot..i gotta try it soon

chelboed · #11 02-09-2003, 08:01 PM

I'm sorry, I didn't even think about it. Hey maybe Namuna will do it. Can I move it from here to there?

chelboed · #12 02-09-2003, 08:05 PM

I thought I'd add this as an afterthought...

The button I used for the booster is slightly taller and easier to push down than a button out of a MS or Bit controller. It's a clone controller button. It requires just slightly less pressure than the forward button, so if I want to take off fast, I just push the booster button. This makes it compress first then the forward button compresses. Kinda like a double action.

I probably confused more of you than I just helped. I think I am beginning to have an anxiety attack myself.

Gotta go...

ed

big-key · #13 02-09-2003, 11:44 PM

Great mod on the booster controller. I just got my 350Z and still have yet to perfect the boost button. I might try your idea; except I am not too talented in the mod department.

chelboed · #14 02-09-2003, 11:57 PM

The mod is easy, just take your time. The hardest part about the mod is routing the wires. Make sure you run them down to the bottom of the controller, over, then up to the button. I also noticed that if you leave your charging dock in the controller, you will need to shave the back off a little. I took my dock out because I use external charger anyway. I don't have any single cell cars anymore.

By the way, I noticed immediate results in ability to control the boosting.

#15 02-10-2003, 12:52 AM

well i was wondering if its possible to make a turbo button.Because your mod is still the same.u still can push go and push the "turbo button". When its really like a nitrous. I want to make it a REAL turbo like when you push Go the "turbo" button is depressed at the same time u push go or reverse. Then it works like a real turbo.