Drive Operation; Effects Of Manner Of Driving On Individual Components - Reely ICE TIGER Bedienungsanleitung

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Drive operation

- Make sure that the rechargeable batteries of transmitter and receiver are fully charged.
- Check the range of the remote control transmitter and the function of the RC- System.
- Always try to drive the model at high revolutions!
- Avoid brief, strong throttle bursts when you want to drive slowly!
- Avoid frequent slow driving with slipping clutch!
- Always drive with attached car body.
Thus, you protect yourself against burns if you touch the engine and the manifold by accident and you protect the
components from falling stones.
Bear in mind that the operation of remote controlled vehicles has to be learned step by step.
Start with simple driving exercises, e.g. circular driving
- Use simple plastic cups as pylons to delimit a course.
- Get used to the driving behavior in curves.
- Practice steering when the model runs towards you!
- Start with a dual rate setting of 100%
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Effects of manner of driving on individual components

Engine
The 3 ccm engine of the GP Monster Truck Chassis „Ice Tiger" RTR is air-cooled. This means that the air stream takes on the cooling of the engine
(air cooling).
This is why you should try to avoid accelerating the vehicle with frequent, strong load changes (short throttle bursts from
low rev range and jerkily lowering the revs).
The brief high revs strongly heat up the engine, without there being appropriate cooling through wind, as this would be the case at a drive with con-
stantly high revolutions (high speed). As a result of overheating the engine, the piston may get stuck in the cylinder liner (piston gets stuck) and sud-
denly block the drive. This could cause consequential damage of the entire drive section.
Drive in part-load operational range with revs that correspond to the desired speed.
However: When driving slowly continuously, the cooling of the engine through air stream is guaranteed, but instead, there may be damages on the
clutch (wear, overheating through slipping clutch).
Clutch
- At idle speed the clutch doesn't yet grip, the model remains stationary with engine running.
- When the revolutions are slowly increased the clutch "slips", the vehicle moves forward or starts to move slowly.
As with a "real" vehicle, constant slipping of the clutch can cause the clutch to "smoke away" or "burn off".
- Only at high engine revs does the clutch start to "engage", the engine speed is transmitted without any slip to the drive section.
The wear on the clutch linings is now at its lowest.
- Frequent, strong load changes by brief short throttle bursts and jerky lowering of the revs also reduce the life of the clutch linings. With short throttle
bursts as well as by letting the clutch slip, you achieve a slow speed, but at the expense of the clutch.
Bearing
Overheating the engine and/or the clutch also has an effect on the bearings of the clutch bell.
Leaking and toughening of the bearing grease (running dry of bearing) as well as different expansion of the balls and
the ball bearing case in the case of excessive heat, can lead to a jamming of the balls. If the balls can no longer move freely, there are frictional
losses and therewith an additional heating up of the engine shaft.
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