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After I saw it on the homepage, I'm also interested.
Is it worth it? Has anyone used it or similar one?
The PushGlo does run off your receiver battery, so yes it's going to run that battery down over time. The good news is, the power consumed for each 12 second glow time is pretty small. According to PushGlo's website "4.8mah per 12 second glow".
I haven't tried one yet, though I do hope to get a few of them for review and for future giveaways.
-Michael
I haven't tried one yet, though I do hope to get a few of them for review and for future giveaways.
-Michael
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From what I just read it said you could plug in a seperate battery or Y it into your RX batt.
bplakers, I'll have more info for you as soon. I've placed an order for one of them today!
Haha, I must have forgotten to. 
After the review it will be given away in a contest afterwards.
After the review it will be given away in a contest afterwards.
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I'm in to see WoodiE's review...I was also interested but didn't want to throw my money at it without any reviews.
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Also looking forward to a review of it.
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How PushGlo works - the geeky answer
Very good question. Allow me to shed some light. PushGlo will not noticeably drain your battery. Believe me, you wont even know it’s their. It only draws between 0.44-0.5 mAh per second of run time. So figure your only draining around 6 mAh per press off of your pack (12 seconds). It basically draws as much power as adding an extra servo. The reason PushGlo is so power efficient is because it’s a Pulse Width Modulated (PWM) circuit, very similar to how a speed controller manages power. What PushGlo actually does is take your entire battery voltage and sends it to the glow plug. What makes it unique is that it sends the voltage in a regulated pulse frequency, depending on how much voltage it reads. So imagine the wire is a line and the voltage are dots spaced out along that line. All the spaces between the dots are empty space where there is no voltage/drain. Does that make sense? It’s way more high tech then it looks.
4.8V example:
-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o
8.4V Lipo example:
------------o------------o------------o------------o
To put it in perspective, Our SwitchGlo Pro model for flyers works the same way, but we have countless customers that are flying twin engines/cylinders that must run 2 of them at the same time. 2 units Y’d into a single RX channel, AND they mix it with their throttle so it runs about 30% during their entire flight, and they never add a second battery. That’s the point: light weight & ridiculously low power consumption.
If anybody in this forum wants one, just mention RCNitroTalk, and we’ll throw in a free LED Module for you guys. 1 year, no questions asked, warrantee. Well, we do ask some questions, but that’s just to improve the product based on your feedback. Feel free to call us if you need to.
Go Nitro!
Mike – 818-709-0268
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Very good question. Allow me to shed some light. PushGlo will not noticeably drain your battery. Believe me, you wont even know it’s their. It only draws between 0.44-0.5 mAh per second of run time. So figure your only draining around 6 mAh per press off of your pack (12 seconds). It basically draws as much power as adding an extra servo. The reason PushGlo is so power efficient is because it’s a Pulse Width Modulated (PWM) circuit, very similar to how a speed controller manages power. What PushGlo actually does is take your entire battery voltage and sends it to the glow plug. What makes it unique is that it sends the voltage in a regulated pulse frequency, depending on how much voltage it reads. So imagine the wire is a line and the voltage are dots spaced out along that line. All the spaces between the dots are empty space where there is no voltage/drain. Does that make sense? It’s way more high tech then it looks.
4.8V example:
-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o
8.4V Lipo example:
------------o------------o------------o------------o
To put it in perspective, Our SwitchGlo Pro model for flyers works the same way, but we have countless customers that are flying twin engines/cylinders that must run 2 of them at the same time. 2 units Y’d into a single RX channel, AND they mix it with their throttle so it runs about 30% during their entire flight, and they never add a second battery. That’s the point: light weight & ridiculously low power consumption.
If anybody in this forum wants one, just mention RCNitroTalk, and we’ll throw in a free LED Module for you guys. 1 year, no questions asked, warrantee. Well, we do ask some questions, but that’s just to improve the product based on your feedback. Feel free to call us if you need to.
Go Nitro!
Mike – 818-709-0268
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To Mike @ ZRC. If that thing works as well as it looks it should, someone should get a gold star for designing it. A Glow plug ignitor is a pain. Every time your motor stops you have to go find it. Even with the EZ start system, you have to keep the glow plug glowing until the motor is making enough fire to keep it glowing so you have to keep the starter engaged until it will stay running. (I don't do that. I used my own ignitor). What you need to do is get someone like HPI and Traxxas to use it. It appears to be a better idea than what Traxxas is using.
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I have this product and it works great. I second what ZRC has said about draining battery and can confirm you won't notice it. Barring in mind 2 factors which are common to nitro's, I run this on a nitro truck and depending on weather conditions and if it has been tuned correct you will use it no more or no less than a glow ignitor. The fact you only need to press a button to make the plug glow IMO is much better than holding down a glow plug in the engine head. Much less stressful and so much easier. I always carry extra batteries but thats normal as I like to get in good hours of bashing, I've also converted my receiver batteries to lipo which is another plus.
I've owned this for over a year and in that time I have had more glow ignitors fall apart on me, either the springs broke or the batteries just died and lost life and that's one thing you won't have to worry about as you use your own batteries which serve 2 purposes one to remotely control RC and the other to ignite glow plug.
There are so many pluses that for me out weigh the negatives (if there's any) and I think I'll leave it at that otherwise I'll just go on
I've also added a link for you guys to watch a video which I made demonstrating this product...
https://www.rcnitrotalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=95836
I've owned this for over a year and in that time I have had more glow ignitors fall apart on me, either the springs broke or the batteries just died and lost life and that's one thing you won't have to worry about as you use your own batteries which serve 2 purposes one to remotely control RC and the other to ignite glow plug.
There are so many pluses that for me out weigh the negatives (if there's any) and I think I'll leave it at that otherwise I'll just go on
I've also added a link for you guys to watch a video which I made demonstrating this product...
https://www.rcnitrotalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=95836
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nazUK
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Watch the video on the link provided on my response will give you the concept of the way PushGlo works.
It will be a doddle for you to configure it to work with twin motors and you will see the ease of use by using this device.
You will wish why you didn't buy it sooner
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ZRC USA
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Multi-Cylinders and PushGlo
Regarding twins & multi-cylinders. PushGlo will only ignite 1 glow plug at a time, because it intelligently reads the input voltage and adjusts the frequency to the glow plug. So if you “Y” PG out to 2 plugs, you’ll only get 1/2 the amps needed for both of them. There are a couple of solutions. You can run 2 of them of of a single switch and we’ll have those up on our website shortly. In the meantime, contact us and we’ll make one up custom.
The other option is to modify 2 pigtails (the connecting glow-plug leads) together on a toggle switch. This way you can press/glow/start the first motor, then flip the toggle switch and repeat for the other.
We’re not only open to community feedback, but we rely on it to better our products based on experiences from the track or field. If you guys have a failure, or thought up an improvement, we want to know about it!
-Mike
Team ZRC
[email protected]
Regarding twins & multi-cylinders. PushGlo will only ignite 1 glow plug at a time, because it intelligently reads the input voltage and adjusts the frequency to the glow plug. So if you “Y” PG out to 2 plugs, you’ll only get 1/2 the amps needed for both of them. There are a couple of solutions. You can run 2 of them of of a single switch and we’ll have those up on our website shortly. In the meantime, contact us and we’ll make one up custom.
The other option is to modify 2 pigtails (the connecting glow-plug leads) together on a toggle switch. This way you can press/glow/start the first motor, then flip the toggle switch and repeat for the other.
We’re not only open to community feedback, but we rely on it to better our products based on experiences from the track or field. If you guys have a failure, or thought up an improvement, we want to know about it!
-Mike
Team ZRC
[email protected]