Hot Wheels Radar Gun

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Good afternoon everyone. I just got home from town, and I bought one of those Hot Wheels Radar guns. I don’t think it is very accurate. I ran my train slow twards the gun and it read it at 3 actual mph. The instructions say to multiply this reading by the scale (mine is 1:87) which figures 261 mph! I do not think this is right.
When I divide 87 by 3 it comes to29 mph, when the train is miving at 4 actual mph divide this by 87 and you get 21.75 mph. What am I doing wrong, any suggestions? Mike

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If they are for slot cars ypou are probably out of the reange. Slot cars go fast - much faster than your train. Probably the accuracy is not very goo either - kids wouldn’t care if it was 100 or 130 MPH

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I bought one for my son for Christmas (which means that I, I mean he, won’t get to play with it until then). I would suspect for 30 bucks that this thing would not be the best measuring device in the world, but who knows. I am looking forward to checking out myself.

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cs mith Go play with it and see if it works any berrer than the one I bought, there may be something wrong with mine, I have tried several times and it wants to reed either 2 or 3 mph actual. Hot Wheels setting seems to work better. Mike

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I’m going to guess that it really struggles at the low speeds we are talking about. Especially since we are looking at actual speeds (for HO) of pretty much 1 mph and below. What kind of reading pop out at the hotwheels setting? It might be better to use that and convert.

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Please don’t give me anymore temptation than I already have to open this thing. [;)] I will definately post results in a couple of months after it is unwrapped. I should probably go buy one for myself.

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Why buy one for yourself? You know the kid is gonna be bored with it after a couple of weeks, then you’ll have two of 'em.

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csmith., I would hate for you to give your son something that doesn’t work, It really must be tested.LOL Mike

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I am already going to test the Life Like slot car set that I got for him, So who knows.[;)][:o)]

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Well there you go csmith, you will defentally need to know how fast the slot cars are going, and while you are at it check your train. Mike

P.S. Am I trying to talk you into something?

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No peer pressure…no peer pressure…

Slot cars + radar gun = good times I’m sure.

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I just looked it up online, and it looks cool. I’d have to try it. Maybe you could just slit the blister along the seam… [}:)]