The Tyco Team Edge R/C Gyromax Vehicle is an R/C vehicle with *VERY LARGE* wheels, designed specifically for stunts that an ordinary R/C car would not be capable of performing.
It comes with a 6 volt NiCd rechargeable battery pack for the vehicle itself, a wall charger for it, and (of course), the smallish handheld remote control with two joysticks for left and right motor control.
* Product was not found on the Tyco R/C website, so this URL simply leads to their front door.
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To use the Gyromax, install the rechargeable battery in the vehicle itself and install a 9 volt transistor radio battery in the remote (see directly below), and THEN you can be Metal Thrashing Mad...O WAIT!!! There I go thinking about the metal band Anthrax again.
The remote control comes on as soon as its battery is installed. To turn power on to the vehicle itself, look for a little red slide switch on the vehicle's underside near the back, and slide it to the "ON" position.
Place the Gyromax on the ground, so that the front (the part with the smaller wheels) faces away from you.
Push both joysticks on the remote forward, and the Gyromax should now race away from you.
A red LED on the controller between the two joysticks should also come on (actually, anytime that one or both sticks are moved from their center position); this tells you that the R/C is receiving power from the battery.
Left stick on the remote controls the left wheels on the vehicle; right stick on the remote controls the right wheels on the vehicle.
Congratulations!!! You're now a stunt car driver!!!
For additional instructions & tips on how to drive the Gyromax, please read the instructional material that comes with the product.
Slide the red slide swich on the vehicle's undercarriage to the "OFF" position when you're finished using it.
***VERY IMPORTANT!!! ***
Remove the 9 volt battery from the remote control every time you are finished using the Gyromax!!! If you forget to do this, you will end up with a dead battery because there is no "Power" switch on the remote.
***THIS MAY IN FACT NOT BE NECESSARY!***
***SEE 12-03-10 UPDATE BELOW!!! ***
To charge the battery in the Gyromax, turn the vehicle upside-down. Look for a clip on one side of the battery compartment, and turn it so that it is aimed off to one side. Gently push the battery pack from the other side until it slides toward the side with the clip. You may then swing the battery pack up and remove it.
Slide it into the charger, orienting it so that the predominantly blue label faces outward, and the two metal contacts on one end go in the charger first. Slide it into the charger until it snaps into place.
Plug the whole affair into any standard (in north America anyway) 110 volts to 130 volts AC 60Hz two- or three-slot household receptacle (outlet). A red LED on the charger should now come on.
Allow it to charge for at least several hours - it has been several years since I've had ready access to the instructional materials, so I'm kind of "flying by the seat of my pants" on this one.
Unplug the charger. To remove the battery from the charger, press the yellow button on the right side lower front of the charger. While still holding the button, slide the battery pack out.
To install the 9 volt transistor radio battery in the remote, slide the battery door off, take it to a bridge over deep water (the Golden Gate Bridge would be ideal; however, the Juneau-Douglas Bridge would also suffice here), and throw it over the side so that it goes "blub blub blub" all the way to the bottom of Gastineau Channel with all of the bowling balls that were lobbed over that bridge in the 1950s and 1960s...O WAIT!!! THAT'S THE GOOD PART!!! So just set it aside instead.
Install a new 9 volt transistor radio battery into the chamber, orienting it according to the polarity markings embossed into the bottom of the chamber.
Slide the battery door back on, and be done with it.
Aren't you glad that you didn't throw that battery door over the side of the Juneau-Douglas Bridge now?
This is what the Juneau-Douglas Bridge looks like...or what it lookED like anyway before it was replaced in 1976.
And this is what the bridge looks like now.
The Tyco Team Edge R/C Gyromax Vehicle is meant to be used as a toy in a dry area indoors or outdoors, not as a flashlight meant to be carried around, rained on, thrashed, trashed, and abused, so I won't try to drown it in the toliet tank, bash it against a steel rod or against the concrete floor of a patio, let my sister's citty kats go to the litterbox on it or let my parent's big dog's ghost lift his leg on it, run over it with a 450lb Celebrity motorised wheelchair, leave it outside in the rain, stomp on it, use a medium claw hammer in order to bash it open to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannoņata, drop it down the top of Mt. Erupto (I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piņata" too much again - candiosity is usually checked with a laser-type device on a platform with a large readout (located at Piņata Central aka Party Central), with a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or with a pack-of-cards-sized device that Fergy Fudgehog uses; the cannoņata (also located at Piņata Central) is only used to shoot piņatas to piņata parties away from picturesque Piņata Island, and Mt. Erupto is an active volcano on Piņata Island), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analysis, or perform other indecencies on it that a flashlight might have to have performed on it.
It was also a birthday gift, so I would not have performed any damaging or potentially destructive tests on it even if it were a flashlight.
So this section of the web page will be ***SIGNIFICANTLY*** more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight.
Photograph of the remote control.
Spectrographic analysis of the LED in the remote control for this product.
Spectrographic analysis of fluorescence of the yellow-green parts of the remote control for this product when irradiated with the 405nm 5mW Violet Purple Blue Beam Laser Pen.
Video on YourTube showing the Gyromax being driven on our street.
This test drive was made at ~7:20am PDT on 07-21-09.
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Screen dump (yes, that's what it's really called!) from the above video.
Video on YourTube showing the Gyromax being driven in a baseball park.
This test drive was made at ~12:00pm PDT on 07-21-09.
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Screen dump from the above video.
Video on YourTube that shows how the battery went to pot in this vehicle.
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TEST NOTES:
Test unit was given to me for my birthday in September 2006. Because it was a gift, the "" icon will appear next to its listings on this website, and the potentially damaging or even destructive tests will not be performed on it.
UPDATE: 12-03-10
I just did some checking, and found that it is indeed kosher to leave the 9 volt battery in the remote between uses; power is only used when one or both joysticks are moved -- and power is no longer used when the joystick(s) are left to spring back to their center positions.
MANUFACTURER: Tyco R/C
PRODUCT TYPE: R/C vehicle
LAMP TYPE: N/A
No. OF LAMPS: None
BEAM TYPE: N/A
SWITCH TYPE: Slide switch on/off on underside of product
CASE MATERIAL: Plastic
BEZEL: N/A
BATTERY: 1x 9v battery (transmitter), 1x 6v NiCd battery pack (vehicle)
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
WATER- AND PIDDLE-RESISTANT: Splatter-resistant at maximum
SUBMERSIBLE: NO WAY HOZAY!!!
ACCESSORIES: Battery pack for vehicle itself, wall charger
WARRANTY: Unknown/TBA
PRODUCT RATING:
Team Edge R/C Gyromax Vehicle *
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