Planning Revo V2, to use stock tranny, C. diff and RCM motor mount

[Serum]

Welcome to the forum.

Quite a familiar username you picked.

You use a Y cable on channel two to make it happen; on 1 side you hook up the esc, and on the other the braking servo.

Originally Posted by Serum

Welcome to the forum.

Quite a familiar username you picked.

You use a Y cable on channel two to make it happen; on 1 side you hook up the esc, and on the other the braking servo.

thanks:) yeah I figured I would try my question here since this forum seems to have a lot more folks that have done the revo conversions.

My problem with a y harness is that I'm using a hvmaxx 6.5 setup for it and there is no way to defeat the motor braking on the hvmaxx esc (that I can find anyway) so if I did the y harness it would apply the motor brake and the mechanical brakes at the same time.

Now that I think about it though, would that even be a problem?.....I read somewhere in here that the two speed in the revo tranny has a one way bearing so does that mean that even though the motor is braking it would only stop the rotor on the motor while the tranny would continue spinning freely allowing the mechanical brake to do all the work? Is that how it would work? if so is there any harm to the motor in doing it that way?

[Finnster]

Originally Posted by Serum

Welcome to the forum.

Quite a familiar username you picked.

You use a Y cable on channel two to make it happen; on 1 side you hook up the esc, and on the other the braking servo.

Yeppers, in addition you want to make sure you have the reverse disabled on the esc obviously. :)

Now the (mechanical) reverse is a diff story. You will need a 3rd channel for that, but they are notoriously weak and heavy, so most do the FOC (forward only.) There is not a way to have motor reverse and mech brakes either, unless you tried brakes on a 3rd channel.