This car I purchased is a Traxxas E-maxx but after seeing the metal Tamiya Ford f-15 I don't know whether to cancel the order considering the Ford only takes one 7.2 volts.
I had a Tyco car with three wheels on each side ten years ago.
The remote control was a bit awkward so I kept on crashing it.
Also I had a Hovercraft which the plastic broke after trying to clean the insides out. Found another working one but the rubber has split due to heat.
They both take 9.6 volt packs. The problem is that they didn't state how much milliamps was on the pack and it took 4 hours to charge. Fifteen minutes was an insult. I got the hovercraft running for 45 minutes on boxes for holding 2500 milliamps rechargeables.
In 1997 was a rip off at Radioshack or Tandys. Someone brought me a toy car which worked on a 7.2 volt C cell pack. The charger they provided was slow. Took 24 hours just to charge a 1600 milliamps. I eventually got bored from frustration of waiting for it to charge whilst I only got 10 minutes out of it.
Brought a Nikko 30 minute charger with a clock. Expensive but it was again not good as I exptected. Can't connect it to the car if it was started as it would overcharge the batteries.
I found at a second hand shop an automatic M-Troniks charger with a 7.2 volt battery all for $10 that didn't overcharge whilst the car was running. The fantastic thing is that I am still using it for charging a drill, alarm batteries and no problems with it yet.
The car will be here on Wednesday along with batteries. The M-Troniks charger's output is 2 amps an hour. Unfortunately I estimate it will take a total of under 5 hours to charge both batteries at 4300 milliamps. I hope the time I get out of it is worth it.
I got this set and it's been a blast:
Carrera GOI'll post some pics- there's a pretty decent setup in the study with a landscape, billboard, marina and jurassic park area. It's really fun when they wreck in the middle.
I'll take some pics and post them. I've been so busy I haven't even mailed my cards yet.
Happy New Year!
That set looks good, if I had someone to play with me.
I had a similar set ten years ago. Despite the amount of cars and roads I brought I had to spend a lot of time trying to clean and replace the contacts before I could use them. And they got pretty dirty quick. Back then I seen a better quality set with slightly bigger cars that had stainless steal contacts with brushes underneath. Also I do have an old electric trainset somewhere to show later if you would like to see.
Sorry I am not good at sending cards.
This post has been edited by Deepsycher: 30 December 2006 - 05:35 PM