I came across this video the other day and just thought this RC Excavator was super cool for only $50. It's 1/24th scale and it looks like it has some weight to it. The tracks are made from rubber and should be able to drive over many obstacles and varied terrain. It works similar to a real excavator with multiple controls that will be a blast to play with. It should hold up to some abuse too, being made from aluminum and plastic. It sounds like a perfect Christmas gift for kids, but come on, you know you will be playing with it too.
The Excavator uses a 2.4Ghz radio for control with about a 50M range and it runs on a NiCd battery that provides 20 minutes of fun per charge. It has lights, sounds and full motion proportional controls. I really can't believe it's only $50. Check out the video below to see it in action.
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My 5 year old daughter and I both got one for Christmas from Santa for some light sandbox use. They are cheaper yet on Wish.com... maybe a bit suspiciously cheap.
![]() edit: Also the video above is the $500 Huina 580. The $30 (or $50 from Gearbest) excavator is the el-cheapo Huina 1550. It looks waaay more clunky than the nice smooth movement of the excavator in the video, but looks like it would still work. Here's a video on how to mod the cheap one into something a little more usable
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Last edited by parajared; Nov 20, 2018 at 12:52 PM.
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Okay Christmas happened and we tried out the two excavators I got from Wish.com.
One of the excavators wouldn't work from the get-go so I opened it up and found one of the wires touching two pads. I re-soldered it so it was only touching it's designated pad and that seemed to fix it... for a while. 20 minutes or so later the excavator stopped working entirely. Perhaps something was damaged due to the wire cross or maybe another issue altogether but was a "on par" Christmas with at least something breaking immediately. On the carpet I found it really hard to scoop up regular objects. Everything would just slide around, balls would roll away. I found that larger driveway gravel rocks however worked decent due to their heavier weight. You could actually scoop them up. In the sandbox you couldn't really "dig" very well due to the fact that the bucket servo was too weak. The controller was clunky and the button layout seemed unintuitive but all in all I still thought it was really fun for a $30 excavator. I get a kick out of hauling little rocks around the living room with it and my daughter and I are having a blast trying to figure the thing out in the sandbox. Despite having one insta-break on me I plan to replace it with another and have two going at the same time.
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In the first post, the excavator in the top pic is a 580 (or 1580) 1/14 scale fully controlable arm... but the 4 pictures below are of Huina 1510, 11 channel excavator 1/16th scale with the boom and arm set that follows a cycle... the arms and bucket are not individually movable... I bought one and was totally disappointed with it once I found the digging arm is not realistic.... that, and the stupid music it has (disco music) instead of engine noise.... it has the dozer type blade across the front of the tracks. The 580 doesn't have the dozer blade.
The 1510 looks great.... but I wouldn't get anything less than a 1550 and put screw servo arms rather than the weak constantly clicking 1550 geared arms.... but at least the bucket, boom and arm work like a real excavator... and upgrade the transmitter to something a bit more user friendly... ![]() |
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Last edited by Calcifer; Oct 11, 2019 at 08:09 AM.
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Advertisements like this have me very skeptical of all ads for diggers like these... I have been caught a couple of times... now I look at all ads very suspiciously... I go over any ads with great suspicion... I hope you all do the same.
This ad is totally bogus. I am not sure what the OP was trying to accomplish with this thread? As I said earlier, the top picture is of a 580 (1580) 1:14 th scale with metal tracks, bucket, battery lid... and comes in the black padded box along with the interchangeable hammer drill and timber grapple attachments. It has 23 channels and is awesome.... but... it costs about $US500 - $US650 The 2 middle pictures is actually a much lesser model, the 1510 (510) the one with the bulldozer blade across the front .... as stated above, these are only 11 channel (in reality about 7 channel) ... they come in a display box with a thin plastic window and a foam core to hold the toy in place.... these are really toy quality with rubber tracks and the digging arms only cycle thru movements. These are great for a little kid who just wants to see it move when they push a button.... not like us big 'growed up' kids who actually want to dig something. The bottom left pic is a 1550 (550) which has the geared arms that click when overloaded (always) but as said earlier, the arms can move individually and is 15 channel (Chinese for about 10 channel) and costs about $US50 The bottom right pic is again the same as the middle pics (with the dozer blade) the 1510. Why Jason would have used the pic of the beautiful 580 in its beautiful box and metal tracks so visible.... then stated it was only $50 is beyond me? Then to use the pics of the actual pictures of the cheap toy in the same first post... and throw in a pic of a 3rd model (the 1550) as well? I am going over the different models in another thread https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/show...ruction-bug%21 as I have bought most of the Huina range and will be going over each model in detail.... the pic showing here in this thread shows how I can tell which model is shown in the pics of this 'supposed' $50 excavator. Check out my other thread as I am continuously updating and can answer questions about all models there... ![]() |
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This is the 1:24th scale excavator...
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