Hey guys,

As i am new into this hobby and i got my car..i have been practicing and having problems in controlling the car while drifting...I have also been playing around with the ''End point'' and ''Dual rates'' features on my transmitter and i kinda mess things up

Can you guys help me by telling me what would be the right dual rates and end point that i should set and progress on...Ya i know different people have different settings on...but still it would help me save some time

Hope you guys reply and help me out...

thanks in advance.

Remember, everytime you mess around around with settings, write them down before you begin. This way, if you make a mistake, you know what the original (functional) rates were...

Anyway, keep your car on a brick (or anything that'll allow the wheels to NOT touch the ground (so it doesn't roll away by accident). Then..

Have you increased the End Point or decreased it? If you've increased it, the wheels will turn by themself. So start reducing the End point a little by little. Vice Versa if you decreased it.

And the steering, just change the dual rates until the wheels are pointing straight ahead.

In most transmitters, End Point adjusts the End Point of the ESC, and dual rate adjusts the dual rate of the servo.

Hope I helped

Hi.
It would help if you mentioned which transmitter you have.

To keep it simple the end point ajustment limits the steering or throttle. With a standard radio and server most of my kits need the steering end points limited (turned down) otherwise the servo trys to apply too much steering. To be clear by too much i mean some part of the steering mechanism jams against some other part of the kit, this puts a strain on the servo which will eventually damage it, it may also deform parts of your kit and basically makes for an unhappy, poorly handling car.

You should have two end points for each channel, they allow you to adjust the left limit, right limit on the steering channel and the throttle, brake limits on the throttle channel.

Dual rate only applies to the steering channel, you can think of it as steering sensitivity.

A good starting point is to set the throttle end points to 100% and then forget about them.

For the steering I would also suggest setting them at 100% and then turn your dual rate down to 50%. Now turn your steering all the way left and check that no part of the steering mechanism is catching against any other part of the kit, then turn all the way to the right and make sure nothing catches. If this works add another 5 or 10% to the dual rate, keep adding and checking until you get to a point where any part of the steering mechanism catches any other part of the kit. You now have too much steering so back off the dual rate a little and you are now set and can forget that end points and dual rates ever existed.

What you have now setup is the full range of steering that your kit allows. Whatever your dual rate is set at now, remember it and dont go above this setting.

As I mentioned before dual rate is like steering sensitivity, I often have turn mine down for my kit maximum which makes my cars less twitchy, all my cars are grip cars so I cant say whether a lower dual rate will make a drifter easier to control.

With the budget equipment I use I normally have to adjust my steering trim a little to get the car to run straight again after adjusting the dual rate, dont worry if yours is like this.

I will leave it to someone else to explain that you should reprogram your speed controller if you have adjusted your throttle end points.

I hope this will help you to get a reasonable set up for your steering,
Duane

Hey guys,

I did what you told me to do and went out for a run and i feel now the car handels much beta than before I messed things up..

Thanks a lot for all the help.
Regards,
Lucas