Brushless Blizzard Anyone
 

Anybody run a brushless Blizzard? The 2 feet of snow outside is making me want to get the blizzard out. How do the mamba's hold up in the water? I have a brushed 19t with a mtronik esc in it now.

The 1/18 Mamba is 100% waterproof. The Mamba Max is not said to be waterproof, but I ran my Revo with it in the snow, and it did great. It had snow all over it, and it still works fine.

anyone know if the sidewinder is waterproof?

Sidewinder is conformal coated just like the others, but the case cannot be made watertight easily like the MM.

I have a blizzard with dual outrunners in there. It is quite fun. I got rid of the old driveline and put two 2215 outrunners on GD-600's. It is perfect on 3s lipo. Now that the m25 has been updated I bet it will start up better in a bind too. We haven't had much snow this season.

Any chance of a few pics of the blizzard JRH? Sounds like fun!

I should have some old ones I can dig up real fast..

I have the newer blizzard with a single 540 size motor and steering brakes

Mine used to be like that too. I hated the cutting brake steering. Now I can skid steer. I even made a mix to make the rig drive like a normal RC, but pushing left or right with no throttle made it spin. It was super easy to drive that way, instead of tank method.

Nice body what it from?

ebay something or other I think.

I like the Blizzard JRH. The outrunners with the gear reduction looks cool, and I am sure that it works well. What ratio reduction are you using?

If anyones interested, this is some video I shot yesterday of my brushless ArtAttack snowmobile. I just finished building it this past week. It definitely doesn't like fluffy snow like in the vid, works well on harder packed stuff. Anyways, I threw my older 1/8 buggy electronics in it for fun, a Quark 125B, Feigao 9L, and Maxamps 4S 5000's. I think I need to gear up some more, but it's a nice combination of speed and controllability right now. It's a blast to drive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=875HUnSZAdI

The little gearboxes are 3.5:1 I think, and with the outrunner "reduction" it turns out almost exactly like stock speed. I might put some scorpion outrunners in there next, it would give better torque. Maybe a slow one on 4s lipo.

That was cool! You need a person on it though because it looks weird to see a driverless snowmobile. :smile: You also need to groom yourself a trail because it looks like it was a little sluggish in the deep stuff.

yeah, i've been looking for a person for it. HPI and Pro-Line make riders for their monster truck ATV bodies, but I didn't feel like spending $25 on a little toy figure. I figure some toy might have a guy I can put on it for cheap. I just bought a 40T mod 1 spur I'm going to try to mount (theres a 51T OFNA spur on it now), that should let me use a better range of pinions and gear it better. FYI, I rigged an old RC10L SS motor pod/axle to run the main track, it works like a charm.