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Re: Spikes

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Originally Posted by macwhoo View Post
But is it supposed to come with only 4? And will it actually work for us if we don't buy more? And what are Victors?
The kit of parts only comes with four Spikes.

If you have six motors, you need six Spikes/Victors to drive them (choose Spike vs. Victor depending on the motor, and what you want to do with them). Check section 8 of the rules for a full description of what you can and can't do.

Victors are speed controllers that take a PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) signal from the RC and a 12 V input from a circuit breaker, and use it to generate what is essentially a variable-voltage output for a motor. This lets you adjust motor speed (almost) anywhere between -12 V, 0 V and +12 V (full forward, idle and full reverse, respectively), represented in the RC code with 0, 127 and 254, respectively.

Spikes are electronic relays (they switch both +ve and -ve terminals). They can only give full forward, idle and full reverse voltages to the motor attached.