Mmm V2 Up In Smoke !!!

[MTBikerTim]

Originally Posted by NovakTwo

Before I start rumblin, let me say this..I am no apologist for ROAR. Nor, is anyone else here at Novak. ROAR is what it is.

The first time we approached them for an approval was for the original brushless motor rule. Even then, the only reason we got a hearing was, by that time, Associated had worked with LRP to offer a motor based on Novak's sensored design. So, Roger Curtis and Mike Reedy (Associated) are the individuals that spearheaded the first ROAR ruling, not Novak. We joke that without their participation, racers would still be racing brush motors. Novak had absolutely no track record, or pull, with ROAR, or any other racing organization. I believe Reedy (a god to modified racing) was the president of IFMAR at that time.

Great post.

I'll have to agree with the others that the rules are just annoying. I am a basher but I also love to race. I really don't like having to race and conform to a bunch of rules just to compete. Especially when it involves replacing $100 escs with a $300 roar approved esc that still doesn't have the features of my $100 esc. I'd rather just not race. Thankfully my club just doesn't care for club events. I went road racing with a different club last night and it was great fun especially since I was racing in buggy class and once again they just don't care what you have in the car.

[glassdoctor]

Patrick, I've been in a discussion on the rctech.net forums about this.

It's a thread about the upcoming ROAR race in Chillicothe, and guys like myself and Dave Alberico are asking if we can run CC motors. Dawn made one post, but now is ignoring my questions about why the rules cannot be updated, as they have been many times over the years to allow new technology and develpments.

I had posted that Castle tried to work with ROAR, but was treated like crap, according to what I have heard. She just made a comment about how people like to make up stuff, said it's not true. But now she is hiding.

It's a good read, and it's not too long yet ;)

thread:
http://www.rctech.net/forum/electric...ad-champs.html

[TruckBasher]

I know other guys here like ROAR but who needs them. Guys here at RCM like to mod things cause we think that rules dont apply hahahaha

but seriously, if ROAR seems to be focusing on sales rather that being competitive on all BL companies then let them be. We have other organization that focusing on improving/modding things competitively (with minimal rules) yet doesnt restrict you from choosing a motor brand. Like Nic Case (sorry forgot the group name ) we have their speed challenge, its not yet recognize worldwide but its a start. just my opinion. ROAR is not for me, Im just a basher

[jayjay283]

I know alot of guys race and need ROAR stuff, I dont, nor does anyone I know. When I think of roar I think slow motors, escs only capable of 4s, and low capacity lipos. Dont need any of it. Id rather it said ROAR REJECTED on the box, sounds like a winner to me !!!

[BrianG]

Originally Posted by jayjay283

...Id rather it said ROAR REJECTED on the box, sounds like a winner to me !!!

That's funny! Reverse marketing.

[What's_nitro?]

Yeah, ROAR.... more like "peep".

I flogged my v2 Monster for 70 minutes last night and 30 minutes this morning. so far so good! It was a mixture of dirt grass and asphalt, hard acceleration, full stop, hard acceleration style driving, with a few from a stand still back flips on asphalt and donuts on grass. I'm hoping to hit a track this saturday and get a few 30+ minute sessions in. This will require new tires though

Air temp both last night and this morning was a muggy 84 degrees. The Monster never broke 104 F, motor 112 F, and trc and neu lipos 95 F. I cringed when I hit a water puddle about 10 minutes into the morning run, didn't even bring the truck into me, stopped and ran out to it. the truck body kept the monster dry Here's hoping it stays this solid, and oh so smooth on power delivery.

[bl-is-future]

Woot finally dickyt get a live one.

[kulangflow]

Awesome DickyT! I'm all happy that you're MMM is running!

Originally Posted by kulangflow

Awesome DickyT! I'm all happy that you're MMM is running!

Thanks! I brought both my lipos and my truck to work today to have them charged and ready for after work. I have several construction site nearby my office and pending no rain the truck will see 70-90 minutes of dirt and sand pile bashing. My tires are bald from peeling out on asphalt last night, so lots of wheel spin will be there to generate some heat. I will keep a close eye on temps do to this.

[George16]

Originally Posted by DickyT

Thanks! I brought both my lipos and my truck to work today to have them charged and ready for after work. I have several construction site nearby my office and pending no rain the truck will see 70-90 minutes of dirt and sand pile bashing. My tires are bald from peeling out on asphalt last night, so lots of wheel spin will be there to generate some heat. I will keep a close eye on temps do to this.

Now that's what you call sickness .

Originally Posted by George16

Now that's what you call sickness .

I am not well needless to say weather was non compliant today, or more yesterday. It was dry today, but several days of rain prior had all the bash spots flooded. CC does not advertise waterproofness on the MMM, neither does nue and my rx is in a box but not sealed. I thought it best to just leave it in the car and drive home. I played for about 10 minutes in the parking lot of my house while talking to a neighbor. not hard enough to get anything warmer than ambient though. all super slow smooth driving, oh my is this esc smooth.

is waterproffness even a word?

[What's_nitro?]

Originally Posted by DickyT

is waterproffness even a word?

Yes.

PS: I didn't know you could link smileys??!!!!

[mtfly2000]

Originally Posted by DickyT

I am not well needless to say weather was non compliant today, or more yesterday. It was dry today, but several days of rain prior had all the bash spots flooded. CC does not advertise waterproofness on the MMM, neither does nue and my rx is in a box but not sealed. I thought it best to just leave it in the car and drive home. I played for about 10 minutes in the parking lot of my house while talking to a neighbor. not hard enough to get anything warmer than ambient though. all super slow smooth driving, oh my is this esc smooth.

is waterproffness even a word?

Patrick has said that it's water resistant

Got my MMM last week. Installed it and race this last weekend with everything running great. Convienced the MMM is a keeper I decided to pop the lid and make some of the mods mentioned in these forums. I unplugged the fan and ran the wiring directly to my receiver's ch3. I made the lid's opening a little bigger for the wires and that's about it. I plugged everything in and I get nothing from the MMM;ie no arming. I raced it last weekend and it did fine. I switched out receivers and do difference. Thinking maybe the switch went bad, I cut it off and soldered the two wires together and still nothing. I checked the batteries (the RX and the main) both are charged. Steering servo and fan works fine just no arming of the MMM. I've disabled the BEC and using power from 2S RX lipo (was doing that before with the MMM and it ran fine). When connected to Castle Link, the software still sees the MMM and can write to it. Any ideas?
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UPDATE: I was just about ready to box up the MMM and send to Castle then decided I'd try one more thing. I ran the 3-wire cable from the MMM directly to ch2 of the receiver and it armed and worked fine. Prior to this I was connecting this cable to ch2 via an extension with the middle (red) wire cut. This was because I did not want to use the onboard BEC and was using a 2S 950 Lipo and a voltage regulator to power the receiver. This/that setup worked great as I went through 4-5 battery packs over the last week prior to the MMM dying. The MMM will now only run with the 3-wire cable directly connected to ch2 (with red wire intact) AND with the 2S 950 Lipo/volt regulator connected to the Batt input of the receiver. When I throw the switch on the voltage regulator the MMM arms completely even with the switch on the MMM being OFF. Even though the ESC arms completely it of course will not respond to throttle until I throw the switch on the ESC. Can someone explain what happened between my first set up (explained in 1st post) and the new set up that I must use now to get proper response out of my MMM?

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