Electric Driving 101

[brushlessboy16]

This is a public thread where you can add your own input, tips, tricks, style's and hints to help any aspiring brushless driver do that much better. Or make us old hacks a little quicker at the track



Things to remember
- you have the acceleration advantage- Compared to a nitro 8ight Who has to go relatively wide to keep speed and RPM- we (I) can come into the corner and follow the pipe precisely and effectively apply power and still beat the nitro guy ( who is sawing away at the trigger) to the next obstacle.


-Use the whole track when you are trying to conserve- initiate your turns from the outside pipe- cut close to the inside turn marker and accelerate around the corner towards the outside pipe... Keep as much speed as you can without needing throttle input- saves battery and keeps things cooler..


-Tone it down- just because your car has enough power to wheelie on the dirt does not mean you need to have it all wasted through tire spin. When I first built my car I had the base settings 10 timing, 0 punch etc. Could make it about 15:30 at my track on a 5000mah pack... Turned the timing down to 0 and put punch control at 60%- What a difference. Ran 17 minutes and my lap times were more consistent.

Lack Of tire spin made my cornering a whole lot better too as (with my driving style) the punch control limited my rear wheel spin and diminished the chance of the rear end kicking out. The downside to this is that your ability to control the car in the air is partially lost. But (as in my case) when you have a car that flies relatively level- if not nose high you do not need much throttle input.. brake only.

-Braking... Braking causes a bit more heat to build in the esc and motor than acceleration- have your brakes set to keep traction- you cannot turn if your wheels and tires are not spinning. this also makes flight corrections a bit more troublesom as high amounts of brake will cause the car to pitch down much faster, this means you have to get back on the throttle to bring the nose up (fat chance with punch control.)

Brake and throttle curves are a wonderful tuning tool if your on a high traction surface where grip is plentiful. IN the rare case that you have near perfect traction-forget what has been mentioned about brake strength and wheel spin.. set your maximum brake and punch control to get as much power to the ground as you can. But in the even that your car is putting too much power or braking down in a certain Rev range or throttle position range- you can use your curves to mellow out that one portion without effecting your overall power output.