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kv rating is just a measure of how many RPM's it can do per volt. taking the 8000 kv and 4000kv example. 8000kv motor, with say 10 volts, will spin a top speed of 8000 x 10 = 80000RPM 4000kv motor with 10 volts it will spin at a top speed of 4000 x 10 = 40000RPM. if you have more kv (or RPM/volt) you have less torque.

Marry christmas to everyone !!

you could probebly practice at a local club, why not use the engine to learn to tune and set up the car, then half a year later when you can drive the track etc, swap the engine for a race spec one...

right the website is up but there are niggles. its rather slow, it uses a spry accordion, load of pictures and links to pdfs.... but nothing to much else, whats the best file format to use and size to make it load and run more smoothly? its not very responsive on mobile devices though it does scale down as it should (using fluid grid layout) this could be down to the image size, or whatever is making it slow. the text doesnt scale down when the rest does, so on a mobile the text is still rather big and is bigger than the writing in the image's. im not post a link to it on here as it has my provate email and mobile number, may give it out over PM but only to people who can genuinly help... thanks all, chris

i have made a website on dreamweaver, got it all working in the root folder etc and have tested it in mozilla, chrome and IE and it all works fine. now i want to get it online, i know i need to have an account with a companys server, and use FTP software to upload the files. i have bought the domain name as well. but i have a few questions. i bought them on 123-reg.co.uk but i have found falcoda to be the cheapest company to host with. so say i go with them and buy 12 months worth. after that i have no idea what to do and how to put it all together. i am using filezilla as the FTP software. the website is only going to be a portfolio website so i only require very small amount of space.

it was a uni project for 1st year industrial design... got a 1st in that module which included 2 other projects... the model took a while to make but by far not the longest iv spent on solidworks...

got it to work, it was just that update but it wasnt showing before. but thanks for the help cerb, forgot about cc cleaner so installed that now too.

There is no option when I enter bios to do that... Saying that I got a pop up just now saying updates are available for a Broadcom wireless card, but I thought Intelsat where used in uk models and Broadcom was for the US. I'll wire it with Ethernet tomorrow and update it...

Well it's like my computer doesn't have wireless, that's why I think I might have broken the card or it's driver software issue...

I have a new laptop that I connected using Ethernet at Uni, now I'm home and using wifi it doesn't seem to work. I can connect via Ethernet to the BT modem but not wireless. When packing for Uni I did drop the laptop about a foot in height but it was in its case so I hope I haven't damaged the wifi card. It's running widows 7, wireless card is intel and I did download the driver but nothing's changed. I ran ipconfig /all and there was no mention of wifi in the results. I did get wifi at the library at Uni but that was on a different OS (reinstalled windows 7 to 64bit instead of 32) and it did work, but that was before I dropped it... Anyone got any ideas? It's a Samsung 7 series chronos 15.6inch...

picture on the right took 2.5 hours to render and ignore spelling mistakes, they were amended. Sony powerdrill and wireless charger for all of Sony's products

i just done a clean install of windows 7 on a laptop and it doesnt have some drivers. is there a way to easily get them all at once rather than doing them all separately. i mainly need the internet at the moment so i dont need to use my old laptop to download things. i need to use an ethernet cable as i dont have wireless. my laptop is: samsung 7 series chronos np700z5a-s03UK help is much apreciated

just got a new laptop, as this ones on its way out but it comes refurbished with no OS. so, i can choose which. its specs are. Processor: Intel Core i7 2675QM @ 2.20GHz RAM: 8GB Hard Drive: 750GB Solid State Hard Drive: 8GB (to help with loading programmes/booting) im studying indusrial design so i want something to run solidworks and the adobe suite. i would normally go for XP as its cheeper and still pretty good, but windows 7 can run 2013 solidworks and XP cant. what am i better off with considering the uni uses 2011 solidworks and i will get what they currently use.

mines like january 1990... its finished now, took a year to fix, a year driving it and selling it this year... its 998cc so i was thinking of getting a car with the 1300 engine but i dunno...

i have a 1990 BRG 998cc, going to be sold this easter and replacing it with i have no idea, but this thread is telling me a mini with a bigger engine...

good luck affording petrol, beetles drink it....

im learning marker illustration for my uni course (product design). only been using them for a few months but i have a broken wrist now so i couldnt finish the VW i was doing. here it is atm... some wouldn't consider marker illustration art, i do.

arduino is here. i have been messing around with the tutorials and stuff but now i wanna try work towards my project. this is how i think it should be set up. i need 32 outputs and arduino doesnt have that. shift register has 8, and uses 3 pins. so i need 12 pins on arduino with 4 shift registers. im building the circuit using only LED's for now to simplify it. first of all have i got the circuit right to control 32 LED's... secondly how would i code it? as i need 12 LED's to do 1 thing, 12 LED's to do another, then 4 to do something and another 4 to do something else... erm... help!!

iv had my mid project crit and so far im on a first... (because i done 4 times the amount of work i was asked to do, with 1 hand) he said i dont need to make a working prototype but i want to. infact i want to end up with a working prototype and 3 times the paperwork needed... just to make sure they know what to expect in year 2 and 3.... so im thinking about getting a prototyping board (solderless as i cant solder with 1 hand...) im changing my specification a bit... it will need to supply each petal with roughly 200-300ma for 5 seconds, then off for 10 seconds. 1 petal at a time for an hour before it moves to the next petal. the reason for this is that running the ohmic resistor for an hour will overheat and damage it.... also led's will need to be on for an hour at a time for each petal as it was before.... or have i just made life really difficult for myself, id love to learn and work it out myself but with the workload i have having things build up whilst i have been in hospital its difficult to find the time. thankyou chris edit: could i just use arduino to do it and programme it?

how would you change the time if you do it electronically.... also is there a website to get these things and a breadboard so i can prototype it. the finished product will only be a prototype but doesnt need to work, i just want it to...

my electronics knowledge goes as far as a lightbulb im afraid so thats why i sided with the mechanical route... it has to be made by 4th may but i cant do anything for a long while, is there a way i can get it made so i just need to solder on the LEDs? thanks, chris

iv been thinking about this a lot recently... best solution i have thought of is to use a mechanical clock and a 12 way switch and another clock with a 4 way switch... new problem now though is that all i can do is look at parts as i have broken my right wrist in 2 places and im in a cast for 6 weeks :/

university project, i have to make a clock. i have a great idea but dont know how to do a part of it. so im having 12 LED's to represent the hours and 4 LED's to represent every 15 minutes, and i need it to work like a clock, so it ticks round every hour and round 1 of the 4 LED's every 15 minutes... iv never done electronics before so i dont know how hard this will be... i used LED's in the above example, but i am actually using an SMA instead of each LED, so will need 6v and 0.4A... any help is apreciated chris

covered this on wednesday, 3rd angle isnt the amount of views but how the views are layed out on the page, do as many views as you think is ncessary. difference between 3rd angle and 1st is that 3rd you imagine its in a box, and you fold the box open like a net, whereas 1st is awkward and weird and only used in america...