First night of Racing 1/12th scale.......................

[RC51]

As above, I did.

Phil

[Grinder]

I was having problems with steering on my car as well.  Since last week was pretty much panic mode all night I tried setting up my steering with the EPA, etc.  I found I was 62% one way and 110% the other to get the steering to turn both ways equally.  It seemed odd to me since the linkage and the servo horn were equal and centered.  I adjusted the steering center on the radio since the splines on the servo saver only give limited positions.  It seemed odd that although the geometry was OK that I would have to give one side so much EPA to get it to turn properly both ways.  Without it I was getting a 3' diameter one way and 6' the other - no wonder the first race was so crazy!

Anyhow I got home put two pieces of tape on the floor and lined it up.  Turned the EPA adjustment to 75% both sides (after some messing around) leaving the geometery untouched.  Turned the dual rate back to about 70% and it turns within about a cm in a 3 foot diameter.  Yay!  Not sure why this worked but perhaps it points to the EPA should be close to each other.  Perhaps the response isn't linear esp when it was all the way down to 62%....

[haddow]

Some say, like Craig, that you do the end point thing like i described and then see which EPA is lower and set the other side to the same value, Frank Calandra disagrees. it doesnt really matter as long as you dont throw the wheel too far and that your circles on the track are dialed in equally.

[Blake]

Reminder for everyone to show up to racing at 3:30PM tomorrow afternoon.  The doors will already be open because the wheelchair basketball people will have been in there all afternoon up until 3:30PM.  If we're quick and everyone does their part, we can have the track ready for practice by 4:15PM.


See ya all at 3:30PM tomorrow,
Blake