Mrs Vince "what the bloody hell are all these tyre marks on the kitchen floor? And all these banana skins??? And 12 blue shells in the washing machine" VINCE!!!!!
You got it right vince, that four legged component is a variable inductance (well, to be correct is an intermediate frequency transformer), by tunning it changes the receiver band. You can take that inductance on the receiver and swap it but on the emiter you must change the quartz crystal and the adjustable inductance near to it. Also, you should check before if there's any other change in the rest of components (resistors and capacitors near the receiver inductance) as those are used to create a bandpass filter and depending on how the device was designed it can be of different values for each band and the inductance is used as a fine tunning or all the same for all bands and just trimming the inductance allows for all the desired band range. Good video!
No need to change battery from one comtroller to the other in the 40khz. Just turn one toy off and the other one on. :). Turn both toys on and race both to see which is fastest out of the 2. One controller, 2 toys. :). Great video. I enjoyed this one.
Reminds me of the race car I bought back in early 1990`s was going to return it because sometimes it would stop or reverse on it`s own ,decided to keep it cause it was more fun that way not knowing what was going to happen . I call it psycho car I still have it and sometimes get it out just for laughs ( did think about fixing it found a bad solder joint but it`s more fun as is )
Those are cool as heck! :-) even if you don't fix them they could still be like a collector's item for Donkey Kong fans and sit on a shelf they would look cool like that! :-) as far as the one that's missing the buttons for the remote oh, you can probably just 3D print some buttons for it. :-) I'm sure that would work
That is so great that you managed to get 3 of them going. I think they were used as part of a promotion for Mario Kart Double Dash on GameCube but they are a cool and interesting little part of video game history.
Cheers Danny, I was wondering if it was N64 related or GameCube. They look nearly perfect, came up really clean. Just such a shame the controls are so limited!!! Cheers for selling them to me :-)
Why Do i love these vids soooo much LOL 😃 These may be on the cheap side - but look at the electronics: microcontroller, capacitors, transistors, RC receiver...
These look like they're much older than 2007. The graphics on the controller, the style of the karts, and the appearance of the characters make me think that these were first released sometime in 1996, when Mario Kart 64 came out; they might have been reissued later for another Mario Kart game, but these ones seem older. I'm glad that you got three of them working, as crude as they are, because Nintendo-related merchandise, especially of this era, is very collectible.
Are these truly RC cars that you can't steer? What a sham. I feel sorry for the poor kids who got these things 10-15 years ago, I would have been so disappointed. Still, interesting video.
Nice repairs =D Yes they're not brilliant toys, but they are super collectable! I think you might be right regards the inductor, there's probably a different capacitor on there too. The only other way I could see the receiver tuning to a different frequency is if there's some way to configure that little IC on there, either when programmed at factory, or via connections on the PCB somewhere - but it didn't look that way.
Thanks Chris, btw thanks for the link on the last video. It was interesting to see the multimeter wired in series to measure the current. Also to confirm that the resistor converts the battery energy into heat to drain the lithium cell. Also the 2 triangles. I remember learning the V-I-R one at school but it has long since left my brain. Nice one :-)
@@Mymatevince Thanks =D Yes! The energy is burned off by the resistor (measured in watts). eg. 10ohm resistor, 3.6v (using the VIR triangle, 3.6v / 10ohm = 0.36 amps). Using the PIV triangle (0.36 amps x 3.6v = 1.296w). So using that size resistor as an example, you would need a 3w resistor (or a 2w if one exists in that size ohms). You could draw twice as much current by reducing the resistor to say 4.7ohm, but your current doubles as does the wattage, therefore meaning you need a higher wattage resistor (eg. 5w).
That was a really good video and Mario kart is really good game so you got a good deal on both sides of the coin because you've got three Mario kart toy's and you can have real Mario kart races and play a real world Mario kart game rock on Vince 🤘🤘
i Wish you could be a neighbor of me and one day i knock your door and ask a favor to repair my stuff and when its done together we eat cake with tea and then i said, you are "MY MATE VINCE"
i wonder if the grease/oil on the gears has got into the motors and clogged them up a bit, remember the other items you did (i cant remember now, maybe in your tronicsfix challenges?) where you opened and cleaned the motors out
Def an inspiration Mr V, fixed my second and third Sekonda watches tonite and whilst the chronograph one seems to be a bit all over the place for function on the stopwatch, both keeping abs spot on time. I got a thing about old Russian watches, some of them so disgustingly ugly its art hehe (I got a Infantry Globemaster which attracts a lot of interest as its huge, weighs a good quarter of a pound too and just about the ugliest watch in history but has a Seiko AL35 movement O.o)
No you cannot just change the crystal because the coil in the the controller /transmitter is tuned to the frequency and you might not want to try changing the coil in the receiver those are easily knocked out of alignment
All 3 models will have 3 freq to choose when you buy a new one. When you buy all 3 at the same time, just make sure all are different freq. But if want to buy only 1, example Mario, you need to make sure the freq you choose is different from the others remote controller toys you already have. One more thing, better use heat shrink tube to secure the wires after you solder it, you will have a better results and neater too.
Vince what device is that you're using ? I'm sure you've said before it's a handheld computer of some kind but it looked different in this video than I remember. Love little things like that and one of those would be great to run my car diagnostics software. So would love to know what it is. Also love these little Rc cars. I saw these being sold in GAME I believe it was quite some time ago always wanted one but never felt they were worth what they were charging for them . Really looking forward to watching this one .
Cheers Dave, this one is a GPD Win, the one I usually use which doesn't have the built in controller is a GPD Pocket. I did videos on them a long time ago on my channel if you want to see them in more detail. I usually use the GPD Pocket day to day as the screen is bigger and has a better keyboard :-)
Hi! I really enjoyed this video and I just have a question,So what size screwdriver would you use to open the bottom of the Mario Vehicle so I can put in the double A batteries?
Those little RC cars look pretty awesome I would change the motors and put LiPO batteries in them or maybe just run them on LiPO batteries you can get at least 4/7 more miles per hour
It would work with but the frequency of your remote would be 40 where joshi would be 49 like you said so you would need to fix the broken controller as well.
I have the Mario cart antigravity race car. Remote. I purchased it in good faith. The seller stated it worked perfectly. The anti gravity portion is broken. The wheels will not turn flat so it can glide. I very annoyed and disappointed. It was for my grandson. 😞. Do you think you can fix whatever. Is wrong. I appreciate It.
40MHZ appears to be the 8mtr Amateur Radio Band and 49 appears to be in the 6mtr Amateur Radio Band so maybe not worth fixing as the remote controls would be interfering with somebody's QSO and we don't want to annoy any Radio Hams do we, we don't want any irate Radio Ham coming over and confiscating the kiddies RC toys.
Hi mate, I'll be going to Crawley, UK next week. Do you know this city? I'd to visit some retro game store... If you know any, please point the me the way. Also we will stay 4 days in London. If you know some store there please let me know. Thanks. Keep up the good work!
Yeah, I did didn't I on the front by the screw, the back 2 tabs were already broken though hence the reason it was hanging down so I wouldn't have been able to use it anyway :-)
I believe it depends on where you live. People that speak with American English dialects tend to choose "maury-o" and "yoe-shi", whereas "marry-o" and "yoshy" are more common amongst those that speak with British English dialects. All of those are correct; the only incorrect pronunciations (that are, erroneously, actually used by some people) are "marey-o" and "yaw-shee".
The two the Yoshis' arent the same MHz because sometimes two siblings/friends want the same character. When buying the toy the MHz was indicated somewhere on or in the box. Also, a fun game with these would be a race where you must reverse the toy in order to get it to make the left/right turns.
OMG I had a Mario kart Joblot. I don't like this my old Mario kart because it was wire line with a controller :( My dad bought it from CVS or Walgreen before go traveling to beach in 2003.
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I totally thought the same thing. Why the hell do they need 9v for 2 buttons? Xbox controllers have like 20, two toggles and fuckin motors on 2 double A's
Thanks Glen, I never knew this stuff existed. I have just ordered it up on Amazon, it was £15.99 and has a little brush built into the lid. It would have been perfect on this fix :-)
