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BrianG · 03.12.2007, 01:15 AM

Well, I found a guy at work to take the Photon off my hands. I took a bit of a loss, but now he's hooked into BL. He can't believe how much power that tiny motor had! He took it outside and test-drove it and then grabbed me to go to the LHS to get a real charger, another battery, balancer, etc. Like a kid in a candy store. :)

He does have a little to learn about driving though. He was driving it in the parking lot at work towards him, turned a little the wrong way, hit the throttle instead of the brake and slammed into a brick wall at WOT. OUCH! Surprisingly, all be broke was the lower arm hinge pin retainers. Oh, he also dented the brand new ThunderPower 3s pack he literally just bought.

The lipo the truck came with is a little undersized IMO. He ran it until the ESC cut off and then hooked it to the balancer and it only recognized two of the cells. He freaked out a little. So, I measured all the cells and one of them was at 2.7v, but the rest were at ~3.5v. I put it on a slow 0.3A charge until the low cell came up and it charged fine the rest of the way. Time will tell if it was just an isolated incident. The extra Thunderpower pack (3s 2.1Ah) he got runs fine though.

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BrianG RC-Monster Admin Offline Posts: 14,609 Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Des Moines, IA	03.12.2007, 01:15 AM Well, I found a guy at work to take the Photon off my hands. I took a bit of a loss, but now he's hooked into BL. He can't believe how much power that tiny motor had! He took it outside and test-drove it and then grabbed me to go to the LHS to get a real charger, another battery, balancer, etc. Like a kid in a candy store. :) He does have a little to learn about driving though. He was driving it in the parking lot at work towards him, turned a little the wrong way, hit the throttle instead of the brake and slammed into a brick wall at WOT. OUCH! Surprisingly, all be broke was the lower arm hinge pin retainers. Oh, he also dented the brand new ThunderPower 3s pack he literally just bought. The lipo the truck came with is a little undersized IMO. He ran it until the ESC cut off and then hooked it to the balancer and it only recognized two of the cells. He freaked out a little. So, I measured all the cells and one of them was at 2.7v, but the rest were at ~3.5v. I put it on a slow 0.3A charge until the low cell came up and it charged fine the rest of the way. Time will tell if it was just an isolated incident. The extra Thunderpower pack (3s 2.1Ah) he got runs fine though.