41
c) Driving the Vehicle
• Improper operation can cause serious personal injury or material damage! Only drive as long as you have sight
contact to the model. This is why you shouldn’t drive at night.
• Only drive when your ability to react is unrestricted. Fatigue or the influence of alcohol or medication can lead to
false responses as is the case when driving a real vehicle.
• Please note that this model car must not be driven on public roads, places or streets. Also do not operate it on private
grounds without the owner’s permission.
• Do not drive towards animals or people!
• Do not drive in the rain, through wet grass, water, mud or snow. The model is not waterproof or watertight.
• Avoid driving at very low outdoor temperatures. In the cold, the plastic of the car body and the chassis parts can
loose its elasticity; in this case, small accidents can already lead to damages to the model.
• Do not drive in the case of a thunderstorm, under high-voltage power lines or in the proximity of radio masts.
• As long as the vehicle is in operation you must always leave the transmitter switched on. When parking the vehicle,
always switch off the vehicle’s speed controller first and disconnect the driving batteries from the speed controller
completely then.
Now you may turn off the transmitter.
• The range of the transmitter decreases when the batteries are weak. When the car’s driving batteries are weak, the
car gets slower or no longer responds correctly to the transmitter.
The driving batteries in the vehicle are not only used for supplying the engine though the speed controller.
The speed controller also generates the voltage/current required for operating the receiver.
For this, the speed controller has an integrated BEC (“Battery Eliminator Circuit”).
At a low driving battery voltage, the voltage at the receiver may also drop, which may cause the vehicle to
no longer respond to the control commands at the transmitter.
In this case, stop driving at once (switch off speed controller, disconnect driving batteries from vehicle, switch off
transmitter). Then exchange the batteries/rechargeable batteries of the transmitter or the driving batteries of the
vehicle or recharge the batteries.
• The motor and drive as well as the speed controller and the vehicle driving batteries grow hot during operation.
Before each change of a rechargeable battery, wait at least 5 to 10 minutes. Let the driving batteries cool down
completely before charging it.
Do not touch the motor, the speed controller or the rechargeable batteries until they have cooled down.
Danger of burning!
Summary of Contents for 23 72 14
Page 138: ...138 ...
Page 139: ...139 ...
