Help to slow down TL01 for 4yr old. 80T motor?

[GazzaRose]

Hi, 

My first post on here, although it seems I registered many years ago but I never seemed to post anything back then.

I bought a DT03 Racing Fighter kit to build over Xmas to entertain me and my 4yr old for a few hours. He loved it and then obviously wanted to drive, his steering wasn't too bad, but his throttle control was on or off, which is only going to end in disaster, even more painful with a brand new kit. I went up the loft and dug out my boxes of old RC kit, including a couple of TT01s and a very bashed about TL01 which I'd used as a bit of a rally car. The TL will be perfect for him to use in out garden and on the bumpy lane behind out house, and combined with the half destroyed Impreza shell, I won't be too upset if it gets mangled. For the moment though even the stock TL is a bit fast at top speed so I was looking at ways to slow it down. The easiest way seems to be setting the end point, only problem is the radios I've got haven't got it, and although I am about to order a newer posher radio, I don't really want to be giving a 4yr a ~£100 transmitter. I have found a company that sell a endpoint adjustment module that plugs in to the receiver, and thats about £15, which is fine, but its also something that when he's grown out of it will never be used again. Then I remember about different turn motors. I'd only thought of turns as getting lower turn ones to make a car faster, but obviously the opposite is true, but I've never tried it. Am I right in thinking that if I put an 80t motor in the TL, it will will go nice and slow? I'm sort of thinking a perfect speed would be little more than walking pace, but also have the added advantage of boosting run times. An RC4WD 80T motor is less than £15, and as and when he's grown out of that, it can be used for a crawler project for us further down the line.

 

Any advice is greatly appreciated, I've built a nice shopping cart of goodies on wheelspin ready to go, just need decide whether to add the motor or not.

 

Thank you.

[toyolien]

I put a 60t motor in my daughters Rising Fighter when she was 3 and it worked a treat. It could have done with being a little slower still, so 80t would probably be fine. She's now 5 and has progressed onto a silver can!

[GazzaRose]

Brilliant, just the reply I was hoping for. I'll get the order sent through, and with a bit of luck it'll all be here for the weekend and we can have a play. 

Thanks

[El Gecko]

There's always the venerable 380 as well, what many of us started on in the Grasshoppers, etc. I'm running a newer one in my vintage Brat with a 10T pinion. Not as much top end as a 540, but can still do donuts on dry tarmac in a heavy 1/10 buggy.

[toyolien]

2 minutes ago, GazzaRose said:

Brilliant, just the reply I was hoping for. I'll get the order sent through, and with a bit of luck it'll all be here for the weekend and we can have a play. 

Thanks

That's what it's all about. Enjoy!

[Bash]

If your radio set has dual rate adjustments, you can use them to slow down the car as well, but the 80t will be effective as well. 

[Fabia130vRS]

11 hours ago, Bash said:

If your radio set has dual rate adjustments, you can use them to slow down the car as well, but the 80t will be effective as well. 

on cheaper radios with knobs, you can only adjust steering with dual rate

[GazzaRose]

Thats exactly the problem I have.  The old 27mhz and the newer cheapy Core 2ghz transmitters I've got only had steering dual rates. I've ordered a Radiolink computer type radio set so I'm future proofed for other things, but I didn't want to trust a 4 yr old with a nice radio. If and when he gets competent and we progress then if need be I'll get him a better radio as well, but hopefully the nice slow motor will do the trick. I'm hoping it should all be here by the weekend so I shall report back.

Thanks again for the help. 

[Wooders28]

A better radio is the answer imo.

Trouble with fitting a slower motor, is you'll need to keep swapping it out, if you want to drive it (and stay awake driving it!). If he's anything like my kids, he'll be wanting a quicker motor quite soon, and a motor or 2 later, you'll be the same as buying a 2nd hand (presuming stick? As you can get wheel radios new for £50) radio with EPA. 

If he doesn't take to it, you've a better, multi model, full feature radio for yourself.. 

Here's a pair ,Core RC and Etronix stick radio's for £40 :- 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/105619316276972/?ref=share

 

[GazzaRose]

Little update.

 

The crawler motor finally turned up on Wednesday after being on back order for a week. We installed it inthe car yesterday along with my now spare Core radio (I bought myself a Radiolink 6 channel computer one for my cars) and gave it it a try in the library car park across the road. It's perfect. In the house it still seemed a bit quick, but in the open its little more than walking pace and he loved it. His main goal seemed to be crashing it in to stuff and then laughing his head off instead of trying to go round the plastic bottle I put in the middle of the carpark, so I changed ta changed tactic, and had him knocking the bottle over. That seemed to do the trick and, while not reliably or smoothly, he he can now drive the car in to it. He hasn't quite got the hang of steering a little bit instead of full lock, and if he thinks the car is lined up with the bottle he just goes full throttle with his hand off then wheel, but he getting there.

 

Thanks for you help.