Starter boxes
Starter boxes are great for racing. These are used to start non starter engines. This type of engine has no starter assembly to drag on the crankshaft, and give a very tiny performance increase. They have a wheel that sticks out from the top of the box. You sit the vehicle on it, push down, and this activates a switch which makes the wheel start spinning, and makes the flywheel contact the starter box wheel. The engine will eventually start. A starterbox will only work on an RC with a flywheel access slot on the bottom of the chassis. This means, basically every RC but a standard monster truck.
Starterboxes have small adjustable tabs that align the vehicle to allow for quick, effortless starting. The position of these tabs will be different for every model, so don't plan on starting your GS Storm SUT truggy on the same 'box as your Losi XXX-NT. There are also different sizes, named by the scale they are for. It will be nearly impossible to start a 1/8 scale buggy on a 1/10 scale starter box, but the current authors are not sure that a 1/10 cannot be started on a 1/8 starterbox.
You can power a starterbox on either a standard 12 volt gel cell battery, or two 7.2 volt nicd/nimh stick batteries. The gel cell works well, the nicd/nimh will cause many problems, including being drained rapidly, usually when you need it the most.
Inexpensive starter boxes should always be avoided. Some of these cannot be fitted with a standard 12 volt gel cell battery, and roquire a weaker two 7.2 volt nicd/timh setup. They are usually plastic, which causes durability issues, while any good starter box has a metal case. The starter wheel can also be made of the wrong compound of rubber, causing very rapid wear.
Some starter boxes have cool extra features, but they aren't always useful. These include magnetic strips to hold body clips, and jacks to hook a glow plug clip into, which will ignite the glowplug with the same battery as the starter.
擺架車係個撻箱上面, 然後成架車按落去, 撻箱上面個"look"會開始轉, 然後個engine就自自然撻著.
[ 本帖最後由 defcone 於 2008-10-22 21:23 編輯 ] |
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