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

[KaztheMinotaur]

That 3/8 aluminum that I got for my new motor mount sure was hell on jig saw bladed. I went through 4!

I have both motor mount cut out and shaped. I drill & tapped 1 last night and I am headed out to do the other one now.

I bench tested my motor and ESC yesterday. The 10S sure did make a hell of a big arc when I hooked it up.

[BL_RV0]

Kaz- you should look into doing this-
http://scriptasylum.com/rc_speed/_nospark.html

[aqwut]

Originally Posted by BL_RV0

Kaz- you should look into doing this-
http://scriptasylum.com/rc_speed/_nospark.html

I'm thinking of that too... big sparks, does one hell of a damage on the bullets

[Ryu James]

i am definitely going to do that. my bullets on my truggy are pitted like a 16 yr old pimple-faced freak. i about shat myself when i connected my 10s to the hydra240. just wondering though, the scriptasylum says not to use this technique with the castle mamba controllers. do you think it will be ok to do on the hydra controller?

[Ryu James]

Originally Posted by KaztheMinotaur

That 3/8 aluminum that I got for my new motor mount sure was hell on jig saw bladed. I went through 4!

I have both motor mount cut out and shaped. I drill & tapped 1 last night and I am headed out to do the other one now.

I bench tested my motor and ESC yesterday. The 10S sure did make a hell of a big arc when I hooked it up.

hey kaz,
how is yours coming along? are you building more than one motor mount? did you pick up some pinions from RCM or just that 12t from SDP? Mike has as low as 15t mod 1.5 pinions avail. i would consider getting one of those. for some reason it runs so much better. i think the long shank pinion has more binding with chassis flex and i could tell it was putting a lot of stress on the motor shaft. and i have aluminum front and rear chassis braces. anyway, just a thought. if your setup weighs in at about 30lbs or less you should be fine with the 15t as i have found out. if you are closer to the 38lb mark like aqwuts then you may want to gear down. one thing you could do that i had thought about is cutting the 12t pinion in half. just cut off a section to make it smaller and that could help too. anyway, keep us up to date on how things are coming.