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Finnster · 04:20 PM

Still continuing the beta testing, its been hard to get a lot of time running it lately. It looks like the range prob was bc of the Rx, it may be fried. I moved it around to the back and it was still glitchy. Put it in the TRX TQ3 Am and now it is fine.

Got a great run in today. I was only able to run hard for ~15 min. Its been slightly rainy out so I took it to a park where I was running of damp pavement and grass. Helluva lot of fun. I was blasting all about. The Revo handling is amazing. Its was just damp enough that the rear tires would slide instead of flipping the truck so I was doing hard powerslides, high speed runs and some fast running thru the grass. Outside temp was ~68. The motor got to ~120 and the esc never broke 90F. :018: The batts were ~100F. Had to shut it down earlier than I wanted as I ran it thru a big puddle after a good slide. Silly me, I know I was tempting it, but I was having too much fun. Had to get back to work anyway. Looks like I'll have a few rainy days for it to sit and dry off in teh house.

The fan does wonders. I did a quick test the other day to see if it was just the environment by unplugging the fan. The esc temp shot up to 140 after a couple mins in the grass. It had been running 1teens, outside temp ~87. Plugged it back in and temps dropped back down.

The last mod I may do is try to mount a 25mm 5v fan on the esc instead of the large 40mm. I want to protect the esc mount a bit more and the standoffs for the 40mm fan are abit higher than the top of the motor plate. I don't want it to get crushed on a bad lid landing or a nasty rollover. I am throughly impressed w/ the CC esc so far.

Oh, lastly, I put gold/tan springs on there w/ 60wt in the rear.. Seems pretty good, but im not a racer so there may be a better combo. The thing is a wheelie machine, I put a wing and def helps as a rollbar and looks killer. Looks fast just sitting there. :)

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Finnster KillaHurtz Offline Posts: 2,958 Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Bucks Co, PA	08.29.2006, 04:13 PM Still continuing the beta testing, its been hard to get a lot of time running it lately. It looks like the range prob was bc of the Rx, it may be fried. I moved it around to the back and it was still glitchy. Put it in the TRX TQ3 Am and now it is fine. Got a great run in today. I was only able to run hard for ~15 min. Its been slightly rainy out so I took it to a park where I was running of damp pavement and grass. Helluva lot of fun. I was blasting all about. The Revo handling is amazing. Its was just damp enough that the rear tires would slide instead of flipping the truck so I was doing hard powerslides, high speed runs and some fast running thru the grass. Outside temp was ~68. The motor got to ~120 and the esc never broke 90F. :018: The batts were ~100F. Had to shut it down earlier than I wanted as I ran it thru a big puddle after a good slide. Silly me, I know I was tempting it, but I was having too much fun. Had to get back to work anyway. Looks like I'll have a few rainy days for it to sit and dry off in teh house. The fan does wonders. I did a quick test the other day to see if it was just the environment by unplugging the fan. The esc temp shot up to 140 after a couple mins in the grass. It had been running 1teens, outside temp ~87. Plugged it back in and temps dropped back down. The last mod I may do is try to mount a 25mm 5v fan on the esc instead of the large 40mm. I want to protect the esc mount a bit more and the standoffs for the 40mm fan are abit higher than the top of the motor plate. I don't want it to get crushed on a bad lid landing or a nasty rollover. I am throughly impressed w/ the CC esc so far. Oh, lastly, I put gold/tan springs on there w/ 60wt in the rear.. Seems pretty good, but im not a racer so there may be a better combo. The thing is a wheelie machine, I put a wing and def helps as a rollbar and looks killer. Looks fast just sitting there. :) Last edited by Finnster; 08.29.2006 at 04:20 PM.