brushless 1/5 4wd conversion about to begin! couple questions.

[aqwut]

Originally Posted by Ryu James

WOOHOOOO!!!! i finally ran the beast! like i have said before, i am not very knowledgeable when it comes to electrical stuff that requires more than plug and play it seems. so the problem was i had the red wire pulled out of the esc connector that goes into the rx. the guys at LHS said to do this and so did the diagram in the bec package. there wasnt any info about leaving the red wire in if the esc doesnt have a bec. holy shi# man! anyway, i found the necessary info online and finally got to run it. its a bit sketchy without brakes right now. so how did it run??

very quiet and smooth. way more quiet than i expected. it is only loud when coasting cuz the dogbones rattle but when on throttle you almost only hear the tires on the road.

its fast but geared too high for sure. i probably hit about 50mph and wasnt quite at full throttle. it is only about 50* F outside but motor hit 85*, esc was 101* and batteries were 73* after 15 minutes of run time. i didnt have any of my fans hooked up or the body on. i think that in the day time and with the body on that esc would be cooking so i might need to gear it down.

with the rampage buggy tires it is like a frickin drift car..except it sounds like a real car drifting. i am not kidding. i could totally drift it just with throttle input and it had great control with the 4wd. it was just "uuurrrrrrrrrrch" screeching around in circles for as long as i wanted. i definitely woke up some neighbors cuz i heard some kids start crying.

so the gearing right now is 15/40. i am gonna run again during day and if needed switch to 12/40 tomorrow. depends on how temps do then. i hope it works out. i know the motor is gonna be fine. its the esc i am worried about.

its got a great smooth, fast punch off the line. no cogging at all.

anyway... enuff said. a picture is worth a thousand words and as promised a video will be coming. but its gonna be a week or so. gotta have the brakes hooked up so i can actually rally it. i have to baby it without brakes right now.

AWESOME! man... glad you finally had the joy to start driving this think, I know it was a long *ss wait for you... Took you long enough to finish it... , took me less than a week ... When you try that beast on the track, you will love it. Tried my MT on the track yesterday, and it handled amazingly well.

[Ryu James]

Originally Posted by aqwut

AWESOME! man... glad you finally had the joy to start driving this think, I know it was a long *ss wait for you... Took you long enough to finish it... , took me less than a week ... When you try that beast on the track, you will love it. Tried my MT on the track yesterday, and it handled amazingly well.

i know. it has taken me a long time to build this. its been fun though. i love doing the builds. time to go drivin.

[Ryu James]

so i ran for about 10 minutes today with the same 15/40 gearing. temp is 75* outside. motor was 88* and esc was 120*. i was just running on asphalt and running at moderate speed. what do y'all think about the gearing and temps? i worry the esc is gonna get too hot when i actually run it in dirt and have the body and everything on but 120* isnt bad. just wondering if i should gear it a bit lower.