Brushless Truggy and Brakes

[lutach]

I have motors that could be as old as some of you young RCers here. I still have many of my Aveox's from 1994 and they are still good. I have never used mechanical brakes and have never had a good motor's life get shorten by using it to brake.

Now a mechanical brake is good for setting up brake bias, but that's only for people who got used to driving nitro's. Motor braking is much simpler. Mechanical braking will add weight, more parts to fail and there's always the need to replace the disk and pads which will be often when a brushless is set up at much higher speeds then a nitro.

[stum]

Originally Posted by lutach

I have motors that could be as old as some of you young RCers here. I still have many of my Aveox's from 1994 and they are still good. I have never used mechanical brakes and have never had a good motor's life get shorten by using it to brake.

Now a mechanical brake is good for setting up brake bias, but that's only for people who got used to driving nitro's. Motor braking is much simpler. Mechanical braking will add weight, more parts to fail and there's always the need to replace the disk and pads which will be often when a brushless is set up at much higher speeds then a nitro.

I'd but money none of those motors were propelling a 1:8 buggy/truggy to 40mph w/ lots of stop and go traffic on a race track... lol also to have f/r bias is awesome for anyone, on any truck, nothing to do w/ nitro vs electric and pads last forever few bucks will get you a year or more racing.

Originally Posted by lincpimp

For a heavier vehicle mech brakes will take a beating, and if they are made and setup correctly they will work very well. After seeing how well my lst and muggy stop with motor brakes I can see no real benefit to going mech brakes on vehicle that size. Now on something larger or heavier or something with big heavy tires i can see mech brakes taking a lot of load off the esc and motor.

One other thing, if you go with mech brakes you lose reverse.... Unless you have a mech reverse gear set in the tranny, but those tend to be weak...

Most every buggy/truggy out there if converted is setup for f/r braking even w/ reverse engaged. Again I like my e-revo w/ motor brakes but I also like my 8ights w/ mechanical. If you are running a center diff I'd say the mechanical brakes are the best choice... if you are not then it's a total toss up iMO.

[lutach]

Originally Posted by stum

I'd but money none of those motors were propelling a 1:8 buggy/truggy to 40mph w/ lots of stop and go traffic on a race track... lol also to have f/r bias is awesome for anyone, on any truck, nothing to do w/ nitro vs electric and pads last forever few bucks will get you a year or more racing.

I actually did use a couple of my Aveox in my Truggy. Both my trugies with solid center drives better then when they had the center diffs. So brake bias might just be just what some people just got used to. Same goes for driving style. Most if not all nitro drivers blip the throttle a lot and when they switch to electric they do the same thing not knowing that causes high AMP spikes.