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BrianG · 04.17.2009, 10:02 PM

I guess you were one of the unlucky ones then.

To help keep this from happening again, I'd drop gearing. The more I think about it, the more I think that it was geared too high on too heavy a truck (especially with those tires!), for 4s IMO. It's probably a simple matter of drawing too much current.

Of course, gearing down will lose top speed, but then you can run 5s or 6s lipo to get it back. Although, on 6s, I'd drop down to 12T pinion and get a bigger spur if there's one available.

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BrianG RC-Monster Admin Offline Posts: 14,609 Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Des Moines, IA	04.17.2009, 10:02 PM I guess you were one of the unlucky ones then. To help keep this from happening again, I'd drop gearing. The more I think about it, the more I think that it was geared too high on too heavy a truck (especially with those tires!), for 4s IMO. It's probably a simple matter of drawing too much current. Of course, gearing down will lose top speed, but then you can run 5s or 6s lipo to get it back. Although, on 6s, I'd drop down to 12T pinion and get a bigger spur if there's one available.