Long awaited E-revo pics from beaches of FL! (vids soon to come)
 

Alright first off, thanks to everybody on this forum for all the help. Dafni gets big props for being the first to make a good design, and being SUPER helpful to everyone (myself included) who was interested in building one. Thanks to mike for getting me setup with the 9920/8xl and all the other small bits at the last minute!

Here are some of the pictures (dont want to kill the 56k'ers)

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Sitting pretty

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Against the ocean

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We spent HOURS on this track!

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top of 1st gear pushed the revo WAY over the landing

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Take-off

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Hard to keep those front wheels down

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Taking a little bit of the jump with the truck

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Bigger jump = bigger air!

Thats all for now folks. Videos are being put on rcpics.net right now, should be up soon.

a good place is rcpics.net....nice truck by the way!!

ahh thanks...didnt even think about that at all! I will go try to load them now, see if they will accept them without editing.

Nice pics

Looks good Roost!, both the pics and the eevo! Poking our eyes out with the weather? ;)

Hah...well im back home now (1300 miles north of those beaches!) and its a crappy 20 degrees :(

Hmm cant seem to get these videos to upload to rcpics.net

Nice pics, ROOST. Your Revo looks very nice. I never thought of dying those rims, looks cool.
I bet your chassis is pretty stiff with this skidplate, I always wanted to get one of those.

Looks like a fun spot to drive RCs, looks like you and your buddy had a great time. (I never been to the sea myself)

Too bad your diffs let you down.
Thanks for sharing

DAF

Thanks dafni. Ya the diff thing was dissapointing, but I did thrash the truck pretty hard tring to find the weak points. I opened up the rear end and found the differentical cup cracked, which is probably why the spider gears got chewed up.

You can email them to me, i can post them for you if you'd like?

There are only 2 I would really like to have posted up, but the problem is one of them is 288mb, so I dont think i can attatch that to an email.

Hang on..

I will give you a login..

hang on a sec, i will PM you.

RC Pics has a 19mb size limit, takes about 5 minutes for me to upload a vid that size to their site with a cable connection too.


As for the Revo, very cool, nitro one would have been kicked out in five minutes for sure!

19mb? thats a super small video!

Yeah, it can be, usually when my bro gets done editing a 4-5 min vid, it'll be 50mb at least........the quality gets majorly cut in half.

YGM... once resized or made as a DIVX, 19MB is rather large..

nice truck ;) looks like you had a lot of fun at the beach.
how fast is it and how many cells were you using

I havnt GPS'd it yet, but I was running 14/66 on 14 cells. I would estimate it to be high 30's.

14/66? seems kinda low huh? im gonna be running me evo on 16 cells on a 8xl/9920 and kind need to know were to start. i was thinking about 16/66 or maybe 18/66....help please!!

Well keep in mind the size of the tires I was running. If you are running standard size maxx tires expect to bump the pinion at least two teeth. (so yes 16/66 would be a good starting point)

I actually thought I would be geared WAY too low with the 14/66 setup, but actually ran the entire time with that setup as it ran pretty well, and the top speed was plenty fast.

what about temps?

I didnt bring my temp gun with me, but temps seemed just a tad on the hot side. I am not very accurate guessing temps so I wont guess, but the motor was pretty toasty, while the controller wasnt too bad. Hopefully it will all be back together soon and I can do some more testing and have more accurate answers for you.

I could bet with one or two more teeth on your pinion the motor temps should come down. (even with the mashers, you run an 8XL after all) Give it a try.

I'm running a 9xl with 18 cells and my motor is blazing. I've tried a 14/66 and it was hot shortly, then I went to a 18/66 and it's still burning up, but not as quickly as the 14/66. I think I have to use a fan, there's no way around it.

try a 16 and if that doesnt work you might have to go higher than a 18. i have heard of people running 18/66 on a 7xl with 18 cells...

Slow-pede, I say you are still undergeared! A 9XL should not sweat on 18 cells in your maxx. Try a bigger pinion or smaller spur.



Edit: Squee, that's right. I have heard people run up to 20/51 on a 9XL. I have no experience with the 9XL, but I would say 18/66 is way undergeared.

Whoa, really?! At 18/66 the motor is blazing hot, speedo is pretty hot, and the batteries are warm. Hmmmm, maybe I'll have to go smaller on the spur.

I hope somebody confirms my info!

Coolhand has a 9XL. Leroy, watyousay?

It's actually a revo...might weigh more, but just for FYI.

yea, if im not mistaken leroy runs his on 18 cells with a 22 tooth pinion. although im not sure.

I have ran the 9xl with a 20 51 mod 1 on 18 cells. It did run warm. I have ran a 7xl on 22 66 gearing on 18 cells to. It also ran warm. I have not problems with running a 9xl on 16 51 gearing 1/8 diffs and 16 cells or 18. I can run the gearing with a 9xl on 12 to 18cells with no heat problems in 90 f temps. no fan.

Really! I'll try 18/54 later on. It's pretty scary fast now with 18/66. Does your speedo run hot at all?

With the 16 51 no. I even ran the 16 51 gearing in a monster gt convert with a 9xl emaxx tranny and some big huge tires. But I didn't run but 14 cells in that. But I was also running a 7020 bk esc. I run the mod 1 pitch

Hey, if you want me to host the video on my site I can do it for ya. just let me know, and we can get into contact.

I wana host it because i wana see it. lol ;)

Sorry I kinda forgot about this guys!

I will try to get them to work here soon.

nice truck, im getting ready to start my own e-revo build. new the the forum and all, just looking up info about BL motors, and batteries. ur pics caught my eye, and gave me an idea, and just wanted to say thanks. i live about 20 mins from the gulf coast, and it never came to me to run my truck on the beach. thanks for the idea, me and my friend are racing on the beach this weekend, and thanks to all of u guys on the forum for all the info on electric, its really fueling my fire to start a e-revo build.

Welcome to the forum Brad!

wow, is this an old thread! LOL all the oldies coming out of the wood work!

Welcome there brad.
I like an electric over a nitro for the power it has.

Yeah, a warm welcome from me too..

Electric is nice..you can drive it almost anywhere without annoying others.

Well the noise may not bother them rene. But a few stones from the wheels may. :D