Gearing?

[shaunjohnson]

Originally Posted by Braden

Oh? So all I do is gear for speed?? The acceleration stays the same no matter how I gear?
Thanks!

This little hobby city motor is AMAZING! I was doing speed runs and the motor got up to 280f TWICE!!! It still goes like a champ too! The esc and battery were cool, for $30 this is a motor that is impossible to blow up!

yep, your acceleration wont change...BUT YOUR AMP DRAW WILL BE MASSIVE!!!!!
amps = heat + voltage drop, heat = bad, voltage drop = dead ESC

make sure you have tope shelf lipo's and top shelf ESC/motor before attempting to do speed runs. never use your speed run gearing for bashing as bashing uses more acceleration and braking, doing this with high gearing is murder on even the most expensive systems.

i would stop using that motor if you value your ESC!!!
280f!! holy crap!!
we are talking de-magged rotors, that'll increase your amp draw hugely.
that'll kill the motor and ESC really quickly!!

electric motors have loads of torque, no matter what your gearing.
simple way to understand it.

you want to do a standing backflip and have it highly geared (very bad btw)

motor goes "oh crap i need a lot of watts of power NOW"
esc goes "ok, i'll get you that amount of power"
battery will go "i CANT give you that much power!!"

that is when things start catching fire.

so gear to 40mph, make sure you have a high quality battery and not an underpowered/underrated ESC/motor combo and you should be fine.

NEVER EVER LET YOUR TEMPS HIT 200*F!!!!!!!!!!!!