Zero turn r/c weedeater

[lincpimp]

Originally Posted by BL_RV0

Sounds like a cool and extremely complicated project with 4 motors, 4 escs and 4 battey packs.

I am slowly making it less complicated as I get a better idea of what i can do with the equipment. Setting up the radio to control everything may be difficult, but I am confident that I can achieve the desired outcome.

I think that 2 or 3 4s 5000mah packs wired in parallel will do fine. Then feed off that to the 4 escs. Having a total of 1600watts available for the drive wheels should be plenty, probably could get away with sidewinder escs, but I have some spare MM escs. The blade escs will be controlled by the switches on the radio, hopefully. I need to read the manual thoroughly and make sure that the dx6 can do what is need it to. I will only be using 3 channels, 2 for the drive wheels and the other for the blades.

[BL_RV0]

The switch-actuated blades may be a problem because IIRC you can't adjust the EPA for switches which means you can only get one throttle amount to the ESCs which could either be too much or too little.