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    RC Glossary
    RC Glossary
    RC Glossary
    Ebook143 pages53 minutes

    RC Glossary

    By Team Associated

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    Do you get confused with race terms like Triple A Main, Low-fly Double, Off-camber Section, and Quarter-finals? Need help telling the difference between Camber and Caster? This glossary (which is a dictionary with specialized terms defined) will help beginners understand RC lingo quickly.

    This eBook dictionary of 300+ RC terms related to buggies, trucks, truggies, cars, setups, racing, and track features will help the newcomer sort out the many terms he'll encounter at the track, in the manual, or on the web. Great for people who need to understand track, setup, and racing terms, and have a smartphone, eBook reader device or laptop handy to look them up easily.

    • Includes formats to read in iPhone, iPod touch, Android devices, Mac and PC computers and laptops, Sony eReader, Amazon Kindle, and B&N Nook readers! Formats available: mobi, ePub, PDF, and LRF.

    • Depending on the eReader you install, you may change the font size, highlight text, bookmark pages, make notes, change screen brightness, and search eBook text!

    • To read ePub on computers and laptops, download the free Adobe Digital Editions or Kindle software. Or download the PDF version and read with Adobe PDF Reader (PDF version not recommended for mobile screens).

    • For version upgrades, just sign in to your Smashwords account (or your device's account) and download or sync the latest version.

    • This eBook doesn't cover terms related to RC planes, helicopters, boats, dragsters, rock crawlers, or motorcycles.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTeam Associated
    Release dateSep 12, 2011
    ISBN9781465936103
    RC Glossary
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    Team Associated

    Team Associated has been in the forefront of hobby-car racing since 1965. From its humble beginnings with a few slot-car parts to today, Team Associated has grown to designing and shipping thousands of radio-control cars and parts to hobby shops around the world. Team Associated is the industry leader in race-level competition vehicles in a variety of sizes, ranging from diminutive 1:18 scale to serious nitro-thundering 1:8 scale machines. Our vehicles ride on road and off road, and are powered by electric motors and nitro engines. Our race-winning offerings include buggies, touring cars, monster trucks, and realistic-looking Short Course trucks. Team Associated manages an in-house staff to research and develop our own race-related radio-control car products. Our talented engineers - many accomplished racers themselves - bring their years of solid racing experience to design cars that will compete at the highest levels of competition. Team Associated fields a worldwide race team of unparalleled talent. Our stable of drivers are responsible for the many championship-caliber awards amassed since our first products in the early 1970s. We race what we sell. And we win big! Team Associated creates its own packaging, manuals, and catalogs with its experienced in-house design department. A dedicated staff continually updates the web site at RC10.com and the online store right here in our Lake Forest office building. The in-house shipping department fulfills orders and ships products worldwide. Our sales department handles the needs of distributors around the world.

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      RC Glossary - Team Associated

      RC Glossary

      by

      Team Associated

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

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      RC Glossary

      Copyright © 2011-2013 by Team Associated

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

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      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Contact

      Numbers

      A

      B

      C

      D

      E

      F

      G

      H

      I

      J

      K

      L

      M

      N

      O

      P

      Q

      R

      S

      T

      U

      W

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      INTRODUCTION

      Team Associated designs offroad buggies, trucks, monster trucks, and onroad and oval cars. This glossary covers terms related these types of vehicles. Thus, we don’t cover terms related to RC planes, helicopters, boats, dragsters, rock crawlers, or motorcycles.

      We chose to word many of these entries to make them applicable even to RC vehicles not designed by Team Associated. Nevertheless, we favored our own vehicles because we are most familiar with their features.

      You'll find very few glossary terms for vehicle parts. Your instruction manual already gives the names of those parts. Many terms in this glossary cover track and setup terminology, which will be welcome for those new to racing!

      We’ve done our best to present the correct definition for a given term. Nevertheless, if you believe an entry is in error, please notify us right away so we can check it and correct it for the next revision, if necessary. Email to service@aeteam.net with Subject line of RC Glossary Correction. (We cannot guarantee to change our glossary over your submission.)

      This glossary does not pretend to be finished. Many more terms can be added. The RC world is constantly changing. Technology keeps advancing. We welcome comments oabout what other terms should be included in the app for upgrades. Email to service@aeteam.net with Subject line of RC Glossary Additions. We cannot guarantee to include any suggestions we receive. Any submissions we receive regarding this RC Glossary become the property of Associated Electrics, Inc. (Team Associated), and might be used or discarded without reimbursement to the person who submitted the information.

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      NUMBERS

      2WD

      Acronym for Two Wheel Drive. The vehicle’s drive system powers either the two front or rear wheels.

      4WD

      Acronym for Four Wheel Drive. The vehicle’s drive system powers all four wheels.

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      A

      Acceleration

      An increasing rate of RPMs of the motor or engine, causing the vehicle’s speed to increase over a period of time. Overall rate of acceleration is determined by gearing. (See also TOP SPEED.)

      Ackermann

      Ackermann is a term describing the effect of the inside front wheel turning tighter than the outside front wheel. More Ackermann means the inside wheel is turning in a tighter arc.

      Air (slang)

      Term for the height achieved during a jump. (He’s got some serious air!) (See also JUMP.)

      Good air!

      A Main

      (See MAIN.)

      Anti-dive (onroad)

      Anti-dive refers to the front arm angle when viewed from the side. (You can change the anti-dive on the TC6 by changing the arm mounts at the front or rear of the front arm.) Adding anti-dive reduces weight transfer to the front on deceleration entering corners. It also reduces caster at the wheel. The dive refers to the tendency of the front end to dive, or lower, when braking.

      Anti-roll bar, Sway Bar

      Anti-roll bars are used to stabilize a vehicle from excessive chassis roll (such as when a buggy leans through the turns by centrifugal force).

      On a high-traction surface, a vehicle not using anti-roll bars will tend to have a lot of chassis roll, which results in the vehicle being less responsive.

      Adding anti-roll bars (or making them thicker if you already have them on) will help minimize the chassis roll, making the vehicle more responsive in cornering, and at the same time making it more stable.

      Anti-roll bars can also help balance the pressure between the front and rear. If your car is oversteering, consider adding a front anti-roll bar only (or making the front bar thicker than the rear). If your car is understeering, consider adding a rear anti-roll bar only (or making the rear bar thicker than the

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