Radio control O scale cars?

If you find one - that might be a challenge to navigate down your scale width roads!

Wonder what kind of speed they are geared for?

https://www.alibaba.com/produc...le-RC_673748582.html

 and  http://www.ebay.com/itm/4-25-0...rksid=p2056016.l4276

Cor

My daughter gave me a 1/43 RC Mini Cooper convertible a couple of years ago as a Christmas present.  It's made by Excalibur Electronics and I think the line is called Micro-Zoomers and is 27Mhz.  The remote takes 2 AA and the charging base for the car takes 4 AA batteries.  It has working headlights, steering, forward/reverse.  You place the car on the storage box/charger to charge it.

I haven't run it in over a year, but it seems like there was no real speed control, just wide open or stopped.  I'd make a video of it running but I need batteries first!

I looked online but couldn't find a lot in 1:43 or 1:48.  I think she may have gotten it at a specialty store inside one of the malls around town, maybe Brookstone.

Also, look for Meijiaxin toys or MJX.

if you are looking for cars with better control...........

https://www.siku.de/en/sortiment/sikuracing.html

hard to find but sometimes i see them,  kyosho dnano

https://www.kyosho.com/eng/pro...ries_group_id=100067

but making it youself is a posibility as well, ,more than enough parts to find

http://www.lostcreek.nl/1%20op%2048%20ford%20AA.htm

Cor

Great Video!

That one sellers video makes it look like they have one speed....FAST!!!! Cool idea though.

Most R/C vehicles in the 'toy grade' class (maybe all of them) are like that--all or nothing speed and steering.

It's in a way a regression from the way things were in the 1980's. At least then, there were some RTR vehicles out there that had digital-proportional steering and throttle. There were also a lot of cars that only steered in forward, or didn't have reverse. Some didn't even steer, they went forward in a straight line or turned (in one direction) in reverse.

Nowadays virtually all toy-grade R/C will go forward and reverse and steer in either direction. But only full-speed/off and full left/right/straight (this is commonly called "full-function"). Digital-proportional control however, is near-nonexistent (since the demise of Radio Shack's XMods line) unless you go to hobby-grade build-it-yourself vehicles--in much larger scales. Which in itself is weird since you'd think technological advances over the past almost 40-odd years would have brought the cost of proportional control down far enough to make it feasible in at least some of the low-to-mid range R/C cars out there. Even low-end quadcopters have fairly fine-grained three-channel controls.

I have a Chinese-market R/C transit bus with a gigahertz frequency controller that is paired with the vehicle much like a typical quadcopter. You can make the doors open and close, start the "engine" sounds (necessary to drive it), a back-up beeper in reverse and turn signals when it turns left or right. But you still can't control the speed or degree of left/right steering.

I guess the market just isn't there for anything better.

---PCJ

I guess I'll need to rethink this. It didn't occur to me that they'd be running at ludicrous speed all the time. Such a shame, I really wish I could have a vehicle that'd look right for the layout and as a engineer got a train close to one of the grade crossings on the layout, I could drive it right across the grade crossing...

Check this youtube channel RC Live Action. These are probably a little too big for O scale, but still very impressive. I get the impression they custom make tall these and if so car in a 1:48 version may be possible? Probably would be $$$ though? Anyway, lots of neat videos here for your enjoyment if nothing else.

I've always admired the Faller Car System, cars drive down the road and can stop at crossing signals automatically. And then, once the train has passed and the gates are up, the car proceeds. Fully automatic, Really cool!

Penn-Pacific posted:

I've always admired the Faller Car System, cars drive down the road and can stop at crossing signals automatically. And then, once the train has passed and the gates are up, the car proceeds. Fully automatic, Really cool!

 

That is awesome!!! I would buy that in a heartbeat if it was in o scale.