E-Revo dewalt conversion

[Traxxamus]

Hi guys, I have have a dewalt 12 volt xrp motor in my summit with a Castle Mamba Max esc running a 4s 6000 45c battery arrangement. I started with a 14.4 volt Dewalt motor out of a new drill I have had for about 9 years. I ran an 18 tooth pinion with the 68 tooth spur gear, I then bought a 12 volt motor and installed it with a 16 tooth pinion running the same spur. I am very happy with both setups. The 12 volt gives me a little more acceleration and a little more top end but the gear noise is much higher with the smaller pinion. I can bash around till I get tired of driving (about 30 min) and put in about 2500 mah back into the batteries. The motor temp is fine (for a Dewalt) I can just hold my hand on it for about 5 seconds. The esc hardly gets warm,(the only way I could get the fan to come on was to climb my legs at a really steep angle in second gear for about twenty minutes) and the batteries are just a couple of degrees hotter than ambient temp. I also bought an 18 volt dewalt motor and I am going to try it on 6 cell lipo as well as the 14.4 volt motor on 6 cell lipo. I noticed that even though I am on 2.4ghz, my radio range was reduced to less than 1/3 when I didn't use the noise suppression capaciters on the dewalt motors, so needless to say I installed a pair of .1uf ceramic caps. onto the motor and my range returned to what it was when I had the stock Titan motor installed. I learned another thing about these Dewalt motors, the older new styles have a rear bushing and are single wound and the latest style has a rear ball bearing and is double wound. I put a drop of locktight on the rear bearing housing to lock the bearing in place because the outer race was spinning slowly in the bore of the rear housing when I was breaking in the motor. (this was a new motor). I am having an issue with the Castle esc. In brushed mode, the esc goes right to reverse instead of breaking first if you coast for more than about 1 second. I tried different settings and it is still the same. I installed the esc in my brushless e-revo and it was fine, so it appears that it only has a problem in brushed mode. I called Castle Creations and spoke to their techs and they said it sounds like a software issue, so I am waiting for them to get back to me with a software solution for the braking issue. (Nothing like coasting a second on asphalt in second gear after winning a race and then touching the brake and watching your Brand new Summit do an endo onto its roof and slide down the road!) Well I broke in the body anyway!