Decided to get a roller and convert my v1 revo to a v2 so I can run 6S in it.
I swapped over my motor/esc, steering servo, roll bar I made, t-bone front/rear skids and wheelie bar, alloy P2 rockers, hard anno'd tini shocks with VDK, RC Raven dual rate springs and rear suspension limiters I made.
I wasn't sure what gearing to start with, started with 14/54, I think stock is 15/54. It did not like flipping... AT ALL! Just wouldn't do it unless I hit the right ramp and held WOT throughout the duration of the flip. I strapped the t-maxx 3.3 tires with kevlar as I didn't want them blowing off the rims in the first 5 minutes and exploding. Guessing they are lighter than stock and with them wrapped, very little ballooning.
It didn't seem all that fast to me. Could be due to comparing to how my outcast and savage feel at WOT, but really, this was very tame for 6S. I was expecting it to be a real handful. It seemed to unload to the front a bit more than I'd prefer, but with 2M oil in it stock... not sure what else to do with that other than live with it. Took some finagling to fit my t-bone skids/wheelie bar on it. Also during my first session, I broke a rear axle carrier (stock v2) and pulled apart the turnbuckle I was using for the rear brace. I stopped at an LHS, picked up a couple packs of carriers and the traxxas rear brace. Bolted that up, replaced the carrier and went to my skate park to air it out. Still did not like flipping at all. Could be also that the roller came with the rear hubs connected to the long wheel base holes in the rear arms.
I wasn't able to swap over my RPM arms/carriers or my HPP motor brace. Now that I removed the stock rear chassis brace, might be able to put the HPP brace back on. Although, that makes it a pain to change gearing, so may put that on once I decide what gearing to stick with. I just put in a 15T pinion and will see how that does.
Only did one set of packs with the savage flux. I wanted to just run it hard after changing to 16/48 gearing and building/installing the cap pack to see how the voltage ripple looked in the log after beating on it at the bmx track. I had 3.4V, now the max was .98v. However, the esc still ran hot. It didn't shut down on me though. I took the MMX fan off and hard wired a hobbystar 30mm alloy case fan then bolted it onto the heat sink with double tape and a ziptie. It was too big to fit in the housing. It pushes way more air than the stock MMX fan and it's on all the time vs just when the esc gets hot.
It was about 85F out, in the graph the esc starts at 90F and by 4 minutes in was at 167F and eventually shows 181F then floated around that for the majority of the run. The motor got to 154F.
I don't think I can gear it down without just getting a bigger spur as the motor won't really move anymore than a hair further with 16/48 in it. Guess I'll see how it does over time.
I swapped over my motor/esc, steering servo, roll bar I made, t-bone front/rear skids and wheelie bar, alloy P2 rockers, hard anno'd tini shocks with VDK, RC Raven dual rate springs and rear suspension limiters I made.
I wasn't sure what gearing to start with, started with 14/54, I think stock is 15/54. It did not like flipping... AT ALL! Just wouldn't do it unless I hit the right ramp and held WOT throughout the duration of the flip. I strapped the t-maxx 3.3 tires with kevlar as I didn't want them blowing off the rims in the first 5 minutes and exploding. Guessing they are lighter than stock and with them wrapped, very little ballooning.
It didn't seem all that fast to me. Could be due to comparing to how my outcast and savage feel at WOT, but really, this was very tame for 6S. I was expecting it to be a real handful. It seemed to unload to the front a bit more than I'd prefer, but with 2M oil in it stock... not sure what else to do with that other than live with it. Took some finagling to fit my t-bone skids/wheelie bar on it. Also during my first session, I broke a rear axle carrier (stock v2) and pulled apart the turnbuckle I was using for the rear brace. I stopped at an LHS, picked up a couple packs of carriers and the traxxas rear brace. Bolted that up, replaced the carrier and went to my skate park to air it out. Still did not like flipping at all. Could be also that the roller came with the rear hubs connected to the long wheel base holes in the rear arms.
I wasn't able to swap over my RPM arms/carriers or my HPP motor brace. Now that I removed the stock rear chassis brace, might be able to put the HPP brace back on. Although, that makes it a pain to change gearing, so may put that on once I decide what gearing to stick with. I just put in a 15T pinion and will see how that does.
Only did one set of packs with the savage flux. I wanted to just run it hard after changing to 16/48 gearing and building/installing the cap pack to see how the voltage ripple looked in the log after beating on it at the bmx track. I had 3.4V, now the max was .98v. However, the esc still ran hot. It didn't shut down on me though. I took the MMX fan off and hard wired a hobbystar 30mm alloy case fan then bolted it onto the heat sink with double tape and a ziptie. It was too big to fit in the housing. It pushes way more air than the stock MMX fan and it's on all the time vs just when the esc gets hot.
It was about 85F out, in the graph the esc starts at 90F and by 4 minutes in was at 167F and eventually shows 181F then floated around that for the majority of the run. The motor got to 154F.
I don't think I can gear it down without just getting a bigger spur as the motor won't really move anymore than a hair further with 16/48 in it. Guess I'll see how it does over time.
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