Hasbro flash racer problem?

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kiwisnap

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I have just bought a fire blazer flash racer from Hasbro(wowwee), this is
the car that is covered in flashing lights that display in heaps of
different patterns. Anyhow the problem is that the car will not drive
straight, it drifts off to the left all the time, is this typical?
The car turns by having the wheels on one side of the car go faster than the
other so I presume my car is drifting because the wheels are not calibrated
to exactly the same speed when no turn control is applied. So if this is a
problem with all these cars then does anybody know if there is an east
calibration inside the car to get the wheels going at the same speed, maybe
just a resistor potentiometer that can be turned to calibrate? I would
really like to get this sorted as if the car drive straight it would be so
much better, as it is it is very difficult to control.

Thanks

http://www.wowwee.com/catalog/fire_blazer.html if you go to the flashracer
menu option you can select a video clip of this car in action
 
Most RC cars have a little mechanical trimmer on the bottom...even those
little cheapies from Rat Shack have them.

jak

kiwisnap wrote:
I have just bought a fire blazer flash racer from Hasbro(wowwee),
this is the car that is covered in flashing lights that display in
heaps of different patterns. Anyhow the problem is that the car will
not drive straight, it drifts off to the left all the time, is this
typical?
The car turns by having the wheels on one side of the car go faster
than the other so I presume my car is drifting because the wheels are
not calibrated to exactly the same speed when no turn control is
applied. So if this is a problem with all these cars then does
anybody know if there is an east calibration inside the car to get
the wheels going at the same speed, maybe just a resistor
potentiometer that can be turned to calibrate? I would really like to
get this sorted as if the car drive straight it would be so much
better, as it is it is very difficult to control.

Thanks

http://www.wowwee.com/catalog/fire_blazer.html if you go to the
flashracer menu option you can select a video clip of this car in
action
Click to expand...
 
Thanks but not these ones, remember the steering operates by speed
differential not a turning rack.


"jakdedert" <jdedert@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:rMEdc.17504$oj6.13922@bignews6.bellsouth.net...
Most RC cars have a little mechanical trimmer on the bottom...even those
little cheapies from Rat Shack have them.

jak

kiwisnap wrote:
I have just bought a fire blazer flash racer from Hasbro(wowwee),
this is the car that is covered in flashing lights that display in
heaps of different patterns. Anyhow the problem is that the car will
not drive straight, it drifts off to the left all the time, is this
typical?
The car turns by having the wheels on one side of the car go faster
than the other so I presume my car is drifting because the wheels are
not calibrated to exactly the same speed when no turn control is
applied. So if this is a problem with all these cars then does
anybody know if there is an east calibration inside the car to get
the wheels going at the same speed, maybe just a resistor
potentiometer that can be turned to calibrate? I would really like to
get this sorted as if the car drive straight it would be so much
better, as it is it is very difficult to control.

Thanks

http://www.wowwee.com/catalog/fire_blazer.html if you go to the
flashracer menu option you can select a video clip of this car in
action
Click to expand...
 
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