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Old 06-08-2007
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Default What would you do with a third Channel?

Ok, weird thread this one, but what function would you have activate on a third channel from your transmitter during racing? The answer has to be scientifically possible and something you can do while actually racing.

Example: Button which activates marshall wake up siren on car
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a small winch, lego style, and sprung so i could drop my transponder back behind the line for 10s or so
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micro servo for mixture tuning nitro of course
brake bias nitro again,
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I would have it as a push button on/off switch, as there's no chance I could operate it proportionally while steering and throttling, so it'd have to be operated by a thrust of the hips or somet... Id set it to drop the wing flat to get the best airflow for top speed, and so I can run a mahoooosif wing so the car is litarally forced onto the track for the corners.

Be quite funny to watch the racer on the rostrum, imagine Brian Harris's commentating "Just look how he thrusts his hips down the straight to get the best top speed".

I'll think of some more idea's, for a hip thrusting push button 3rd channel.

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On the new ko i think you can make oneof the buttons into channel3 but havent tried it.

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You could use it to raise/lower and end of your choice, no idea why, to tired to think about it (long day)
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I didnt read your post right neil with a third thread i would install a big hammer or a gun to destroy oponants or i would have a self righting so if i rolled it i wouldnt reqire marshalling.

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for electric, the wing idea is excelent, and you could set a button on a KO to a On-Hi-off-low setup, and you don't even need the new KO. So Chris can forget his pelvic thrusts!!! roflol
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Use it to drop skittles all over the track so faster racers crash and you get through WA HA HA HA
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A 2 speed gearbox with the change up/down button as the 3rd channel or an adjustable wing partially mixed in with the throttle.

I cant think of any real examples that would give you a competitive advantage, without a track change the 2 speed gearbox wouldnt give you an advantage and im unsure if the extra weight of the adjustable wing would be outweighed by the extra speed gained (if any?).
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Over here (usa) a third channel is used to switch the car from foreward to reverse (nitro duh). Or if any of you want to use your car at night or dusk, you can hook up lights using the black and white servo leads off of an old broken servo.
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I'd use it to raise the shock towers, so the car rides lower for part of the track.
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I would have a weight inside the car which could move from left to right and back and forth depending on the turn or jump i was going into.
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o man!!

def a button to flip the car back onto its wheels!
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to activate spinning blades in the inside of the actual wheel so the blades extend shredding the competitions wheels to bits
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Make the model driver's arm wave on my victory lap!!
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Make the model driver's arm wave on my victory lap!!
Operated with pelvic thrusts, that would be "da bomb"

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mini blow torch operation, for jet powa!!!
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