BL MBX-5 Near completion. Pics

[SilentMonster]

I've got an update. First off let me just say that the 1512 motors are more that enough. There is no need to even consider the 1515 series. I'm waiting on an order of pinions from Mike, so I ran it with the 24/44 gearing. Obviously it is stupid fast but here is the kicker: The hottest the motor ever got was 155 degrees. Wow, that is impressive to say the least. The MM was not too happy though. After about 10 minutes it was shutting off. I assume it was thermaling. I had the Nomadio Sensor on the motor but not on the ESC but it was hot. I didn't expect the ESC to get hot. When I ran the XLT-4 motor it was just warm and the motor was cooking. I can't figure that one out. It would shut down and then after about 10 seconds it would reboot and run. I'm sure the MM will like the 16, 18 or 20T pinion much better.

[lxmuff]

I raced the 8ight Saturday and in the 10 minute main with other 1/8 conversions and the motor got to 155 and the esc to 165 with a fan on it. I have the esc ontop of the diff. The motor didn't have a fan on it too. My friend was running my MBX5 with quark and Plettenberg Maximum with fan and it got to about 160 on the motor. The Neu is a little better than the Plett. I used the 1512 1.5D/F with 11/46. This is the track
http://www.rcracingextreme.com/forum...pic.php?t=3426
To give a relative idea, the 8ight went about 10 feet further than the fastest nitro on the largest jump(made me look like I knew what I was doing while landing great). I could go no further than half throttle anywhere on the track. I think I'll try the quark out on the buggy next. A friend of mine is going to be getting a new tekin mt for beta testing on his conversion sometime soon. Between that and the MMM, a large portion of the esc capability should be settled.
Silent, let me know when you'll be going to SL next.

[MetalMan]

Originally Posted by SilentMonster

I've got an update. First off let me just say that the 1512 motors are more that enough. There is no need to even consider the 1515 series. I'm waiting on an order of pinions from Mike, so I ran it with the 24/44 gearing. Obviously it is stupid fast but here is the kicker: The hottest the motor ever got was 155 degrees. Wow, that is impressive to say the least. The MM was not too happy though. After about 10 minutes it was shutting off. I assume it was thermaling. I had the Nomadio Sensor on the motor but not on the ESC but it was hot. I didn't expect the ESC to get hot. When I ran the XLT-4 motor it was just warm and the motor was cooking. I can't figure that one out. It would shut down and then after about 10 seconds it would reboot and run. I'm sure the MM will like the 16, 18 or 20T pinion much better.

If with the XLT-4 motor the motor was getting hot and the MM wasn't heating up much, then the motor was undergeared. Are you using a fan on the MM? If not, I would say that the MM is running at a pretty acceptable temperature if it lasted 10mins. before thermalling.