Hello, I could really use some help. I have little electrical experience beyond wiring, and no circuit experience at all, but i don't believe i'll need that for this project.
Here's what i'm trying to accomplish. I want to put a larger, more powerful motor on this cheap RC car I got for my son for Christmas. The original one is tiny, and not much fun. If I ran more power through the circuit board, I'm sure I'll fry something, as it's made for 5 AA batteries, so what I was thinking was to use the feeds from the board to activate a relay to channel the power through to the motor.
Now here's the rub. It looks as though the board reverses polarity to achieve reverse, so using the relay would only get me forward all the time. The only way i know it reverses polarity is because it only has two leads going out of the board and to the motor.
Is there any way to retain reverse using a simple set up such as this?
thank you in advance
Here's what i'm trying to accomplish. I want to put a larger, more powerful motor on this cheap RC car I got for my son for Christmas. The original one is tiny, and not much fun. If I ran more power through the circuit board, I'm sure I'll fry something, as it's made for 5 AA batteries, so what I was thinking was to use the feeds from the board to activate a relay to channel the power through to the motor.
Now here's the rub. It looks as though the board reverses polarity to achieve reverse, so using the relay would only get me forward all the time. The only way i know it reverses polarity is because it only has two leads going out of the board and to the motor.
Is there any way to retain reverse using a simple set up such as this?
thank you in advance