Lightning basic electric setup???

I have aquired a lightning stadium truggy roller that I wish to convert to brushless and race on a tight 10th scale track here in Des Moines. These were my thoughts on the setup. I will attempt 30 minute mains.(I know a guy who can do it now) Feigao 9xl, 4s 10000 lipo from maxamps, castle max esc, 47 kyosho spur and 13 or 14 pinion. This seems like a pretty basic and solid setup with nothing exotic. I like exotic stuff(like dancers and so on) but being new to large scale electrics that aren't boats, I would like to keep it simple, stupid.KISS
Does this sound like a good setup? I am slightly worried about battery weight but I can live with it if it will work. Any thoughts?

[jollyjumper]

hey, welcome aboard.
i looked with the speed calculator and it seems like a good setup for a short track. about 30mph.
i dont know so much as most guys here tough.
if you cant do it yourself ask monster mike about a motor mount.
he can make very nice mounts.
do a search for brainG's tread about his hyper 8.
that will show you what it could look like.
byby.

[jollyjumper]

some link's for you:
jakeE's hyper 7:
http://www.rc-monster.com/forum/show...ighlight=hyper
brianG's hyper 8
http://www.rc-monster.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3989

this is basicly the same as the hotbodies, just might be a little different in the details.

[tom255]

Many comments with 9XL setub 5S battery i the bestcombination, so i think in 4S better combination is 8XL motor.

Thanks for the info guys! I'll have to stick with a 4s to stay low on weight so it looks like an 8xl might be the ticket. I don't think a little more go juice will hurt run times as long as I just use the power when I need it. What do you guys think?

I am in the process of building a LSP. I am using a Mamba max controller and an 8XL motor. The 8XL on 4S will be fast enough to race, but will not be uncontrollable on a 10 lb. truck. I think anything higher turn would be too slow for you on 4S, and that's all I would put on a MM if you are going to be doing 30 min. mains. Do a search for LSP on this forum, and it will give you a few good ideas of what people are using in their setups. Are you still planning on using the 10000 maxamps? Weight and ability to fit on the relatively narrow chassis would be a concern for me.

[glassdoctor]

Hey aod8850... that's me that has the 45min+ truggy :) who are you?

Looks like there will be several brushless 1/8 in Desmoines this summer... sweet!

Your setup look spretty good... 8XL on 4s will be plenty at the track. If you want to hang tight on the battery, you can try running a couple of mine and see what you think, and maybe find out how much juice it's sucking. 10K packs should do 30 min easy... but my guess is that 8ks would also work.

Edit: I see from iowarctracks.com you are Ryan... but I still don't know who you are, ha ha...

I'm sure you can get it running for the early bird race...

[nativepaul]

It looks like we have similar tastes, micro boats and bigger cars, Im in the planing stages for a lightning myself, a buggy tho not the truck.

I'm not worrying about weight on the buggy too much, I will probably run nimh or 10,000 too, there similar weight.
The weight will still hurt a cars acceleration but not nearly as much as a boat, it wont affect the top speed like weight on a boat will, as theres more to get moving but the drag stays the same as theres no increace of wetted area to slow you.

Holy cow! It's a small world on the internet. Paul, looking forward to racing FE boats in coming up here when it gets warm. We'll have to post our non water rigs on RRR when we get them done. Random indeed!

Dustin, I raced only on Wednesdays every week last year. I worked with Dave (Marble) in Ames for a year or so and he would sometimes come out and race with me on electric night. I ran stock truck moslty. Chrome front and green back T4. Brandon would anounce me as Ryan "Got Bling" William$. I never made it out to Saturday racing as I had nobody to pit for me and I was bored with nitro anyway. (Only so much porting and timing you can do) I am looking forward to racing on electric night and also would like to run with the nitro guys as well. Paul and I are ELECTRIC boat guys and I am a bit of a junkie. You wanna see some crazy electric setups, then look at the boat guys. We are NUTS. Check this 32 cell boat out. 150 MPH 2 way average.http://www.modellbau-regler.de/Video...dro_140mph.wmv

[BrianG]

LOL. Kinda funny how many people in the Des Moines area make their way here. Maybe all the Des Moines forum members should wear "RC Monster" shirts or something. :)

OK I can get an Aveox 1412 1.5Y for cheap and I was wondering what the performance of that motor would be like compared to like an 8 or 9XL. Any thoughts?

[Mr.lst]

Maybe when I go back to the states I will go to Des moines to race or bash with some of you guy's from there I am from Dixon IL not to far from Iowa 45-60 miles

You should come out for sure. Looks like we'll have another electric buggy as well. I convinced Dave to convert his tripple seven to electric so we'll have boat load of big electrics this year.
Looks like the Aveox is a pretty fast motor according to some of the boat guys so I bought it. We'll see......

[nativepaul]

I wanted a 1412/1.5 for ages, someone from the USA came over with a Maus Bullet with 16 cells and 1412/1.5 at a time when noone in the UK had seen brushless and impressed everyone mightily. With a KV between a 7XL and 8XL it should be good for a truck, will you be running it on a sensored or sensorless controller?

My local Track's mains are 15-30 mins depending on time schedule, but they won't let me race, the owner said that if I turn up with an elecric and beat everyone they will moan at him, but I can join in the fun on bash days which is fair enough I s'pose, but they obviously haven't seen my driving.

Things look good in Idaho with electric racing and a lake, got a flying field too? with your low petrol prices (I know they have gone up a lot recently but my local regular unleaded is £4.77 per gallon XE tells me that thats $8.95!) how much is it over there? Emigration looks good right now.

[bdebde]

8.95 a gallon!?! Time to convert the full size car to brushless!