motor and battery questions
 

Hi everyone,
My brother bought me an iracer for christmas and I recently bought a microsizer, i'm brand new to the "tinyrc" world so please bear with me if my questions are stupid or have been answered a million times already. I tried to search usenet and the web for the answers, but they just don't seem to be within my reach...

Anyway, first: my iracer is clearly a lot -faster- than the microsizer out of the box. I believe the microsizer came with a 2.2 or 2.0 motor (the end is yellow). What I want to know is which motor should I buy to get the microsizer up to speed with the iracer? I want either the 3, 3.2 or 3.8 but I don't know if the 3.2 or 3.8 would be -overkill- any advice?

Secondly, I've seen the replacement Nimh batteries and plan to get one or two, but on the tinyrc.com parts page they mention a "dual cell conversion"....what exactly is this conversion and does it give double the run time or just more power to the motor?

Please post any info if you can, Thanks!

-paul
http://www.gbalight.com

depends. you can wire them in parralel or series.questformadness has instructions

hogjowlz:

Thanks for the response to the battery question! I figured you could wire them in either way but wasn't sure if the motor & circuit could take the added voltage.

Anyone have advice/suggestions on which motor now?

-paul
http://www.gbalight.com

no problem. i learned a lot from these boards im just giving some knowledge back.

i have a clone (got it for 10 bux) and i did a rare earth magnet mod and dual cell mod. its been running fine and REALLY fast for the past two days. the motor issue is up to you, how fast u want it?? on mine it goes real fast but if you try to turn @ those speeds youll just roll over.. wheelies r fun tho. id get a 3.8 but just b/c when i battle (a game sorta like soccer) it makes the bumper go realy far on a good hit. the rare earth magnet is a good idea as well, especially if you add the wieght and power of a dual cell. otherwise when you turn you may just end up going straight

Well, I wanted to get it up to speed with the iracer... I don't think I'll plan on the 2 cell mod though... Just the 3.8 and a single Nimh. The 3.8 with the single cell wouldn't roll on turns would it?

Thanks for the reply BTW :)

-paul
http://www.gbalight.com