Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #04176
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Dave Hrynkiw dave@solarbotics.com
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 15:51:29 -0600
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: hotwheel BEAMbot!!
At 03:28 PM 6/2/1999 , john thurmon wrote:
>when i was younger i bought a hotwheel cars that you put on a charger an
>then let it go it 30yrds from a 10sec. charging. i put a 1381
>solar engine on ti an vroom a super fast solar roller! these could be used
>for those slot car racing thingies! anyway.... they like 10$so bye!:):):);)
They were Mattel "Sizzlers", that used a small N-sized nicad. They've
recently be resurrected by "Playing Mantis" toys, and are much the same.
The motor really stinks - it's one of those rectangular, open motors that
are very inexpensive (and really inefficient).
But that isn't to say you couldn't retrofit it into something much better!
As a matter of fact, Mattel now has "XV Racers", which are the same sort of
thing as the sizzlers, but with what I _think_ is a 10F AL Gold cap for
power storage.
-Dave
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that's right. Yes, I know it looks like "HOCKYRINK." Yup, only
2 vowels. Pronounciation? _SMITH_".
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