Nocturnal Creeping

[Jake Wright]

Last night OCRCRC held their first ever night competition and it was a perfect opportunity for us to test out our Night Crawler lighting system.

http://losi.com/Products/Features.aspx?ProdId=LOSB9996
I bolted up the LED light set to my comp rig and prepared for some intense night crawling.

The LED set comes pre-wired and ready to plug into your receiver, which is great. However, I didn't have any free ports on my receiver... so I wired in a voltage regulator and used a 2S MRC lipo pack to power the lights directly.

I didn't have much night crawling experience before the comp, so I was excited to give it a try. The comp was held in Corona Del Mar, at one of my favorite SoCal crawl spots. The crawling was extremely tough and drivers had to rely only on lights mounted to their rigs to navigate the courses. The LED's (and a few glow-sticks for effect) provided plenty of light for me to get around the tricky courses. Since I managed to forget a flashlight, the LED's even provided enough light for me to walk to and from the courses over some treacherous obstacles. The MRC lipo had plenty of juice to light the way for me and my rig for the night.

I didn't manage to get any pics during the comp, but here's a few of the stealth bomber after its first night comp. Hopefully Rich got some action shots...

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/1721/img1675s.jpg

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/259/img1677.jpg

This one is my favorite one

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/2969/img1679j.jpg

Overall, night crawling is a blast and provides some interesting challenges. My LED light set worked awesome and let me see crawling in whole new light :p

-Jake

[kwkride]

Sounds like you had fun http://myrcmt.com/review/images/gallery/albums/userpics/10015/thumbs.gif

[John K]

My word...clean up that truck of yours! It's filthy. LOL

[Jay Robinette]

My word...clean up that truck of yours! It's filthy. LOL

X2 :eek:

It looks like your crawling around in a fire pit Jake. :p

But the stealth style is very cool looking.

[Tony Hottmann]

sounds like alot of fun might have to try that in the basement set up a course and shut the lights off then turn the truck lights on :cool:

[kwkride]

Congrats on the win too Jake! http://myrcmt.com/review/images/gallery/albums/userpics/10015/thumbs.gif

[Del Montess]

that comp was a blast.
and that light set-up was pretty awesome, i can't wait to get one of my own!

I get to attack my rig with a rag and can of compressed air tonight to get the sand out of it, holy crap did that sand tear up the rigs! haha.

[Clovis Crawler]

"The LED set comes pre-wired and ready to plug into your receiver, which is great. However, I didn't have any free ports on my receiver... so I wired in a voltage regulator and used a 2S MRC lipo pack to power the lights directly."

Hey Jake
I've just purchased the Night Crawler light kit for my comp crawler and have the same problem as you about having an available port on the receiver. What type of lipo pack and regulator do I need to get?

Kabuki

[Jake Wright]

I used a Castle BEC to reduce the voltage down to 4.8V for the lights. You could also use a small receiver pack to do the job, but since I already had the small lipo I decided to make it work.

I just used the 600mah Losi MRC lipo pack
http://www.losi.com/Products/Features.aspx?ProdId=LOSB9831