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BP-Revo · **I think I just fried my 1/18 Mamba 6800 Motor -** 12.30.2006, 12:32 AM

I was running in the snow and had use saran wrap to seal up my chassis. I came in after ~15 minutes (3S 1500mah Lipo's run forever...I think I've gotten like 40 minutes of full throttle before). Anyway...the motor was SO hot that it waws able to melt a pretty large chunk of snow and then boil it into vapor!!!

OOPS!!!

I took it for a run today and left the motor completely exposed. It ran cool (ambient temps ~10* F). It seemed to run fine, but I can't tell until I get some traction. Snow driving with a Mamba 18T mostly involves rally-like driving over ice and flat, packed snow).

So...is my motor fried? It seems ok while driving, but logically I would think it shoul be toast.

PS. Its awesome rallying around on the packed snow...I love the 4 wheel rooster tails...

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BP-Revo BMW M Power! Offline Posts: 1,910 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: SoCal	I think I just fried my 1/18 Mamba 6800 Motor - 12.30.2006, 12:32 AM I was running in the snow and had use saran wrap to seal up my chassis. I came in after ~15 minutes (3S 1500mah Lipo's run forever...I think I've gotten like 40 minutes of full throttle before). Anyway...the motor was SO hot that it waws able to melt a pretty large chunk of snow and then boil it into vapor!!! OOPS!!! I took it for a run today and left the motor completely exposed. It ran cool (ambient temps ~10* F). It seemed to run fine, but I can't tell until I get some traction. Snow driving with a Mamba 18T mostly involves rally-like driving over ice and flat, packed snow). So...is my motor fried? It seems ok while driving, but logically I would think it shoul be toast. PS. Its awesome rallying around on the packed snow...I love the 4 wheel rooster tails... BL Revo: CF G2R, LMT1940/7, 6S FP 30C Lipos, MMM, Hitec 5955TG CRT .5: 7075 Ext Chassis, LMT1930/7, FP 25C 3S Lipos, MM