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Also remember if you insert the battery in reverse by accident it will blow the PCB. It certainly does on the new radio boards. Mounting the -ve on the side prevents this.

We have another 5 cars and bodyshells available for sale. We have done a few improvements from the first batch of 5 as follows:- Firmware improved to reduce jitter when stationary. Improved rear body mount and added locking pin. Please let me know if you want one. I wont put them on ebay for a few d...

I have had some success with the roller bearing on the steering arm. The servo steering now gives enough force to overcome any excess side friction. I mounted a small roller bearing just behind the magnet (i think it was a 2mm bore bearing about 5mm O/D). It worked quite well. The only downside is t...

Yes I was looking at this.
The only issues I can see are the cost and also the in car transponder uses 4.2v minimum. This might work, but could brown out.

With a programmable micro controller on board - in theory we should be able to to program a 'running' signals to switch a IR-led to mimic the frequencies we used to have ? Yes to flash a IR led would be easy, The only problem is that you would have to input to the microcontroller in the car which f...

I have been looking into this and I think you may be correct in that the standard RFID tags may be a little slow, however all RFID tags are not the same and some are regularly are used for runners crossing a line in a race, so may be suitable. Have a look at UHF RFID tags as these may be what you wa...

Our first batch of cars has been released today for sale on eBay. We seem to have sold two already before I could post here, so if you want one head over to ebay to purchase. We will try to get a batch of Alfas together soon for sale. https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/magneticracing?_trksid=p2047675.l2559 ...

Hello Everyone Good news at last. I have completed the design for the new chassis and all parts have been ordered so it should only be a matter of weeks now before the first cars are for sale. The initial batch will be Porsche 908/3. The first 5 for sale will be completed and fully painted. They wil...

Hello Wes its nice to hear from you. I have made great steps on the radio front and now have a good board which works well. It is setup to control one motor and one servo so isn't suitable for a coil setup however i have sent one to Magracer and he is doing some trials on his chassis to see if he ca...

Hello All Nice to see you are all still experimenting. I too over Christmas tried to return to the coil setup, I tried two magnets, one magnet, one coil, two coils also and double wound ones (which do help), but the strength is very minimal and as with Wes's original the magnets have to be close to ...