MGM 16018 brake seting
 

I'll run a mechanical brake on my revo because i keep the 2 speed. But i see on the MGM website that the car/boat controler, like the 16018, we can't program the brake at 0%, we can't remove completly the brake , we can just program it at "light" setting.

Is i'am wrong or we can completly disable the brake on this controler?

Thank you

Yooo-hoooooooo anybody know:neutral:

Sorry,
I am at not at home. I am at work and can't go look to see if it can be done. Maybe some one else.

PM replied.

Thank you Lutach and other who had PM me, i'll try your tips.

Curious to the tips, looking to do this myself. I was planning on turning brake to lightest, turning down brake EPA, and then using 3rd channel mixing for brake servo. Not sure how you would do it on a 2ch rx tho.

That's what Lutach tell me to try, so when i'll recieve it, i'll try it.
If i understand, the value 8 in the parameter B is suppose to give a 3 secondes of delay before engage the brake, that's right????
So in 3 seconde, this is enough time to the mechanical brake to did the job...
If someone have others suggestion, fell free to tell it to me:yes:

I start to have somes regrets to not have take the Quark, on the Quark, the brake can be disable......

Just another question, is i'am better to use an linear BEC or a switching BEC with the MGM?? I know that this controler have already a powerfull BEC on it, but i prefered to run an external one.

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, 3 sec. should be plenty of time LOL. The BEC on my 16016-3s and on my 8012-3s are working fine. I like to use rx packs because I like to place them where it will give me some extra balance on my set ups. The external BEC seems to fail a little more then the rx pack.

3 secs???

I thought that was part of the boat mode, where it doesn't brake but reduce rpms over a given interval. As I understand it (god knows reading that manual tho) that option 8/B would set brakes to hardest. Are you aiming to put it into boat mode then? :oh:

[QUOTE][/3 secs???

I thought that was part of the boat mode, where it doesn't brake but reduce rpms over a given interval. As I understand it (god knows reading that manual tho) that option 8/B would set brakes to hardest. Are you aiming to put it into boat mode then?

QUOTE]

who's say thrue???? finnster or Lutach???
If it's Finnster, i'am not on the good way to run my mechanical brake:oh:

I've e-mail this question to Mike, and that's what he reply to me:

So i don't already have my controler, i'll try it asa i'll receive it, but if somebody here could try it and leave feedback, that's will be nice!!

Tomorrow I'll try the 3 sec setting to see if it works. I'll report it here.

Well I'm hardly the MGM expert, I've ran mine for about 10 min, and it will be a week or two before I have the truck all the way back together to really run it.

I have a 3 ch rx, so the plan I listed above should work fine. The problem I see you have is using a 2 ch rx. You can turn down the EPA, but then you will turn down the brake servo as well. So will have to find a balance there to get it to work.

However, you are keeping the two spd, so the matter may be moot. I'm trying to work out in my head if the motor brake can even be applied with the one way bearing in the 1st gear. I'm thinking not, so it won't matter about the motor brake, it will just stop the rotor to the spur gear. But I am very tired and can't work it out right now. If you have the tranny in your hands, play with it to see what it does. I'm pretty sure w/ the OWB it won't matter

It didn't work.

I just left my brake on.
It has a one way bearing so it doesn't matter if motor stops or not.