What is a Slipperential?

[Mozzy]

Originally Posted by jamesban

If your gearing, batteries and motor are correct for your vehicle can having the slipperential too loose and slipping too much cause the battery wires to overheat and melt a little?

Definitely not!

The only thing that will overheat in that case is the actual slipper on the slipperential.
Slippers should slip then grip. If it slips too much, it will heat up rapidly & cause the slipper to fail & require replacement.

I don't believe your set up is correct.

Wire heat generally indicates that there is too much load on the motor & it's drawing a lot of amps.
Keep that going & you could potentially have a massive failure of both motor & ESC.

What motor are you running with, what gearing & in what car?

Also, are you running on grass that is half the height of your wheels? My mate did this with his MT & fried a motor & MM ESC. Initially we thought the motor wires had just gotten hot & melted the solder enough to separate, but, after fixing that & trying to run again we discovered everything was shot.