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Merry
Christmas from your friends at AtomicMods!
Unlike a lot of other retailers, we are
keeping the trees, garland, mistletoe, and manger scenes
and doing our best to offend as many anti-Christmas
crusaders as
possible. So from all of us here at AtomicMods, we wish
you a double heaping of Merry Christmas with all the
trimmings. And now for the shameless plug, which you
knew was coming right. I mean c'mon, Rob is not only a
radical
right-wing Christmas lover, but a capitalist to boot.
Anyway, back to the plug. We have 2,283 things you could
buy for that special someone, but if you don't know a
tie rod from a t-bone, you can always use our handy
gift certificates. We now return you to our regular
programming...
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I love my job! Its very
rewarding to be able to provide a good living for so
many families while doing something we all love to do. I
mean, how many of us can say we get paid to play. A big
part of our job here is to play with cars, no really! We
race them to learn the best way to tune and which parts
work best. We break them to find the weaknesses, and we
design new parts to make them better. We don't go to
work, we go to "play".
However, we don't get to
"play" as much this time of the year. December and
January are the busiest two months of the year for us
here at AtomicMods. And especially this year, as we are breaking all of
our previous sales records, while bringing in still more
products. We are working very hard to get your orders
shipped out on time, but its not easy. In fact we just hired our eighth
person; a Russian beauty (not pictured above) by the name of Tatiana
to help with shipping. We normally ship all in-stock
orders within one day (sometimes same day), until the
weekend which we take off (we have to race sometime).
When we return on Monday it is currently taking us until
Tuesday or Wednesday to get all the weekend orders out,
then we are back to same or next day shipping until the
weekend comes again. Another big challenge is getting
enough product to fill the demand, as many of our
vendors simply cannot keep up. So please bear with us
through this busy time. The volume of orders we are
handling will cause unavoidable delays, so we ask for
your patience through the holidays and thank you for
your continued support.
Robert Byrd
Chief Executive Speedologist
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Pulse Mods! |
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The brand new
Radio Shack Pro Pulse is here!
And while they run pretty good stock, we couldn't help
tinkering around with it. The Pro Pulse is very similar
to an RC18T and can use many of its upgrade parts, such
as batteries, wheels, tires, motors. We also robbed some
shocks from the Mini-T. We suspect there are many more
crossover parts to be discovered. So getting back to the
article, here is what we did:
Upgrades
LRP 7.2V H-Volt Plus 6-Cell Pack
This is a great pack and the exact size needed, so it
was an easy choice. The pack dropped right in and was
held by the stock battery bar perfectly.
Mamba Competition X Package: 8000Kv
This is the highest RPM mamba system delivering 57,000
RPM at 7.2 volts. Normally we would not use this one,
but we wanted to go as fast as possible with the low
factory gearing. It too bolted right in and since the
speed control is separate, everything just plugged in.
We did use the
Castle Link USB Programming Kit to set it up
because it is much easier than doing it from the radio.
Team Losi LOSB1110 Oil Filled Aluminum Shock Set
The stock springs are pretty springy and since we knew
we would be going fast, we knew they wouldn't work. We
had to use the stock Pro Pulse shock ends, but after
threading those onto the new shock, they bolted right on
and provided a much needed improvement in stability.
BSR Racing RC18T Wheels with Foam Tires (not on site
yet)
Since we were running brushless, we wanted a tire that
would not swell up too much and wack out the handling.
The axle pins are a bit longer, so after lengthening the
slots on the wheels, they bolted right on.
Handling
The handling was very stable and predictable. The foams
broke loose quite a bit but the car still went straight
even with the tires spinning like mad. We were all very
impressed with the stability and predictability.
Speed
The car is geared pretty low presumably to keep the
stock setup punchy, so this setup only netted us a top
speed of 30MPH which we confirmed with our radar gun.
Not bad, but we still want more! The Mamba is capable of
much higher voltages, so we are going to build a special
high voltage Lithium pack and play with taller gearing
to see what we can get out of it. So stay tuned...
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Cristian's Corner |
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so now I have a corner... And the trouble with having my own corner is
I have to keep it orderly, and make generally good use of it, lest
Rob take it away and leave me cornerless which I could not bear.
We
use a lot of racing terms around here and often get asked about
them, so in an effort to keep my corner cobweb free, I thought I
would put together a glossary.
AMPS- Amperage:
The ampere, in practice often shortened to amp, (symbol: A) is a unit of
electric current, or amount of electric charge per second. The ampere is
named after André-Marie Ampère, a 17th century French dude who was one of
the main discoverers of electromagnetism.
Armature:
The central part of an electric motor, usually carrying the windings and the
commutators. The pinion gear) is usually attached to the armature shaft.
ATV or EPA:
Adjustable Travel Volume or End Point Adjustment features on better
radio transmitters control the maximum travel of the servo on both sides of
neutral position.
AWD:
All four wheels are powered by the motor through a drive train. The use of
four wheel drive allows a car to obtain better traction and greatly improves
handling.
BEC:
Battery Eliminator Circuitry; a circuit that eliminates the need for a
separate receiver battery by using the battery pack that powers the vehicle
also powers the servos.
BDC:
Abbreviation for Bottom Dead Center. When a piston is at the very bottom of
it's stroke.
Brushless Motor:
A motor that has a rotating center permanent magnet & a fixed outer
electromagnet driven by a special ESC that changes AC pulses to DC pulses.
Read more
of this article.
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Team AtomicMods |
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2006 PN Racing Mini-Z World Cup
We brought home 2 more world championships at this event. Check out the Team AtomicMods results from
the
PN Racing Mini-Z World Cup here.
2006 AtomicMods
Race For Education
We are back from the
2006 AtomicMods Race For Education in Columbus
Indiana. I can't help thinking how lame school was when I was a
student, but Michael Riley has found a way to reduce the vacuum
factor and we applaud his innovative approach to education. Anyway, we had a killer time there and
you can read
about the entire event here.
Upcoming Racing Trips
Kyosho Mini-Z Cup
Our next event is the Kyosho Mini-Z Cup in Acapulco, Mexico. We will
be taking the entire Racing team; Jacob Feinstein, Michael
Feinstein, Cristian Tabush and Rob on this trip and expect everyone
to come home with large trophies. That is everyone except Rob. Learn
more about the event at:
www.kyoshoamerica.com/minizcup
Team Edition Cars
Curious what the Team
AtomicMods drivers are racing? You can check out the
Team Edition cars right here
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The
Micro-Ts are here and I couldn't wait to get my hands on one of them. They are
surprisingly fast and quite powerful. In fact, they have
enough juice to pull the front wheels off the ground
with ease. They jump well and handle better than I
expected. So far these have been the best selling
product we have ever had in the store, so we plan to
create lots of upgrades for them! I can't wait to get
Lithium in one of these. Can you say "Micro-Missile?" -
Rob
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