So is there a real difference between what these two terms refer to?
To some degree this really works down to who you ask. Just check out away any of the forums on internet and also you’ll see there are even often various varying views in the community by itself as to exactly what the distinction really is.
Let’s start through looking at the term Gas Powered RC Cars. This is generally acknowledged to be short for ‘radio control’ and refers for the technical set up of the gadget in question which (keeping this reasonably simple) is basically:
- the ‘transmitter’ which looks your hand held controller you use to control the direction, movement etc of the gadget. Whenever you move a joystick on push your button on your hand held controller effectively converts our movement into a message that is sent out as radio waves to your gadget.
- A ‘receiver’ which sits inside your gizmo to be controlled and receives the radio wave instructions sent off the transmitter.
- A ‘servo’ (or even more than one servo) and is passed the instructions from the receiver as well as in response to these instructions will be sending an appropriate content to the motor (or motors) inside ones gadget.
- A ‘motor’ (or even more than one motor) which once it receives is instructions from the servo takes action to put those instructions towards effect e.g. makes your car battle forward or backwards or turn left or appropriate etc.
So in comparison to our very clear technical based understanding, what does ‘remote control cars’ actually mean? Now this is where a bit a lot more disagreement usually arises.
Unlike your very clear technical basis we must define the term RC Gasoline Cars once information technology comes to remote control we are much more looking at a descriptive term which on its most widely accepted meaning relates to any method of controlling your toy, vehicle or some other gadget from a distance.
So this could refer to methods of control such as by wires, by infrared (as plenty of the cheaper models today use very effectively) or even arguable by RC as of training when you use an RC transmitter to operate a automobile you are still operating it from a distance.
So while all RC gadgets could be seen to be ‘remote control’ not all ‘remote control’ devices have the essential technical make up towards be considered gasoline rc car gadgets.
BUT increasingly people apply your terms interchangeably (even I tend to on this site) and in all honesty it doesn’t really matter unless of course you are looking at buying and are also really specifically after some of the advantages radio control may have done some of the other forms to remote control. In these cases ensure you do spend time searching at the detail behind the name used in order to make sure you are really buying what you want.
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