Wanted to thank you all… - RC-Monster Forums

xcntrk · 05:42 PM

….for helping me to create an absolute MONSTER!!!!

Over the past couple of months I’ve been converting my 4 year old UE equipped T-maxx over to electric. Finally today the last of my parts trickled in to get it up and running. I promptly charged my new lipo and did a shake down run. HOLY COW, my nitro days are over. The run lasted a whopping 10 minutes in which time I smoked my strobe slipper and spun both drive-cups right off the tranny (ran out of thread-lock for the set screws). A few things I learned in that short period of time; punch-control is “mandatory”, I may be geared a little low, and I foresee a long process of tuning in front of me to dial in the ESC throttle and gearing setup. I was never able to get to full speed as I couldn’t keep the front-end planted. It seemed at any speed it would aggressively wheelie (and it’s not a light rig).

Anyway, the wealth of knowledge and great community support this forum provides helped me build this sucker; so I wanted to say thanks. Obviously a huge thank-you to Mike as well for supplying the multitude of parts ;)

More pics and details to come. I need to stock-up on some spare parts!…

_paralyzed_ · 04.03.2008, 12:05 AM

yes! pics please. I love your avatar, that was peobably all of us

xcntrk · 04.03.2008, 08:51 AM

^Thanks

Pics are coming. I now have a huge amount of questions to start researching. I think I’m way under-geared. I’m all the way up to 50% on the “punch-control” and it’s still pulling some hefty wheelies. I have the Revo slipper setup in-route to do that modification and have a handful of MGT spurs. I’ll probably try to step down to a 46 spur and see if that helps move the torque curve out a bit (presently running 51/20 gearing). Here’s my specs:

MM, w/2700mF Cap & Fan
Fieago 7XL w/RCM sink-clamp
CC-BEC
Receiver Cap (glitch-buster)
PolyQuest 4s 5000mah lipo

BL_RV0 · 04.03.2008, 09:44 AM

I don't think you're undergeared, I just think brushless is powerful!

xcntrk · 08:27 PM

Thanks…

How’s the rule-of-thumb go again regarding temp?

My digital temp-gauge hasn’t arrived yet; but presently the motor runs a bit hot (about 4 seconds with a finger before pulling away). It’s a Fieago so I guess that can be expected. The MM only gets warm to the touch, and the lipo maybe just slightly above ambient. I know it’s all guess work without a temp gauge; but doesn’t that imply under-geared? (hot motor, cool esc & batts = undergeared?) Or do I have it backwards?

[EDIT] Pics are up

http://www.rc-monster.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11168