I didnt have to work tonight, but I drank a monster thinking I was gonna work, so I came back home and was still wired... So... I decided to start work on this beast.
The first thing I did was take apart the motor, and inside I found a set of old school (china toy) wiper brushes. So I did away with those. After, I wound a custom arm, but I messed it up, so I grabbed a gen 1 stage 2, and took the endbell, brushes, and armature and slapped em onto the motor the car had.
Next was to remove all the wiring and clean up messy solder. Check.
Next chore was to wire up the board to the xmod pot and steering motor. It wasnt too bad. I got it on my first try
The pot wires are like this
Micro-T---------XMODS
POT
Black-Black
Red-Orange
White-White
Steering:
Blue-White
Gray-White/black stripe.
Soon after testing I trimmed the wires to length, soldered and heatshrinked them, and hot-glued the board to the car, and finally tucked all the wires under the board.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GiOiWSgkcc
Looks pretty, and the electronics are pretty nice and have a smooth and linear response!
