You've got moving parts in a car, there's no way you could make one to last 10 years straight with no maintainance. Things deteriorate even if the car is never used. Oil becomes thinner and seperated with time and heat; belts, gaskets etc all wear out, not to mention things like brake pads and tyres.
Sure you could make a vehicle out of the best metals that never deteriorate, but when you have metal against metal at 1 -> say, 6500 RPM, there's no way you can prevent all wear and tear for that long.
Look at all the advice given out so far, you're looking for something that is:
Small
high quality
not battery hungry
fairly reasonable in price
has neat features like 'low light mode' 'wind noise cancelling' and an image stabiliser.
Go for the Canon MV series. They have the lot, are firewire, compact and pretty good quality.
I bought an MV600 for 350 ($650(!!!)) and it's pretty neat. I had to pick up a firewire cable for it though, as well as video editing software which cost a fair bit more. The guy that was talking about having to buy accessories was right, you'll need a tripod, case, extra DV tapes and probably an extra battery and maybe a light for night use... You're probably looking at $900 for the whole setup which is pretty much in the range you're looking for.
I did a lot of looking around to find the best camera for my budget and this one was the best at the time-even apple used to sell them I believe so they can't be bad at all:) .
Well recommended.
If the battery gets pulled loose, your servos will all freeze right where they were, and your failsafes will never activate.
The failsafe commonly used to protect against this (Such as the Schumacher Nitro XTR is a simple spring attached to the servo arm. If power is suddenly lost the servo will just get pulled back to the throttle close position, or whatever. Simple but effective.
you can buy pieces of kit that senses if the radio signal has been lost or the batteries are low. When they detect this they just shut the piece of kit down (ie close throttle or whatver you set it to do). Remember that you can buy RC cars and trucks that do 80mph+ out the box which won't do anyone's ankles/shins any favours- this has already been thought of!
it's called combat cars and is on bravo in the UK. People fix up bangers (old cars) to be radio controlled and they go through some challenges and then trash each other's cars. It's just like robot wars etc. but with real cars. Certainly not news, this.
Can't find much info about it, but it's mentioned here!
Great fun to watch when someone's put in a fair amount of effort...
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You've got moving parts in a car, there's no way you could make one to last 10 years straight with no maintainance. Things deteriorate even if the car is never used. Oil becomes thinner and seperated with time and heat; belts, gaskets etc all wear out, not to mention things like brake pads and tyres. Sure you could make a vehicle out of the best metals that never deteriorate, but when you have metal against metal at 1 -> say, 6500 RPM, there's no way you can prevent all wear and tear for that long.
Look at all the advice given out so far, you're looking for something that is: Small high quality not battery hungry fairly reasonable in price has neat features like 'low light mode' 'wind noise cancelling' and an image stabiliser. Go for the Canon MV series. They have the lot, are firewire, compact and pretty good quality. I bought an MV600 for 350 ($650(!!!)) and it's pretty neat. I had to pick up a firewire cable for it though, as well as video editing software which cost a fair bit more. The guy that was talking about having to buy accessories was right, you'll need a tripod, case, extra DV tapes and probably an extra battery and maybe a light for night use... You're probably looking at $900 for the whole setup which is pretty much in the range you're looking for. I did a lot of looking around to find the best camera for my budget and this one was the best at the time-even apple used to sell them I believe so they can't be bad at all :) .
Well recommended.
If the battery gets pulled loose, your servos will all freeze right where they were, and your failsafes will never activate.
The failsafe commonly used to protect against this (Such as the Schumacher Nitro XTR is a simple spring attached to the servo arm. If power is suddenly lost the servo will just get pulled back to the throttle close position, or whatever. Simple but effective.
you can buy pieces of kit that senses if the radio signal has been lost or the batteries are low. When they detect this they just shut the piece of kit down (ie close throttle or whatver you set it to do). Remember that you can buy RC cars and trucks that do 80mph+ out the box which won't do anyone's ankles/shins any favours- this has already been thought of!
it's called combat cars and is on bravo in the UK. People fix up bangers (old cars) to be radio controlled and they go through some challenges and then trash each other's cars. It's just like robot wars etc. but with real cars. Certainly not news, this.
Can't find much info about it, but it's mentioned here!
Great fun to watch when someone's put in a fair amount of effort...
there are Keyboards which are quite sweet for the PC. Coolermaster have recently released
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