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Suburban_Hooligan

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got an issue with my OG RC10 6 gear. its got a Hobbywing justock 21.5 G2.1 motor which is fixed at 0 degrees of timing. powering that motor is a Castle Sidewinder 3. the car has a nasty "bog" from a dead stop. as if it idles away and then vtec kicks in yo.
question: can adjusting the motor timing on the ESC fix, or at least help this? the default setting is 10 (I'm assuming that's degrees) do i want to turn that down to help my "holeshot" problem? (I'm operating under higher timing more RPM less torque off the line, less timing more low end torque and less RPM) i can set it at 0 which will match the fixed motor timing. iv never messed with ESC timing before and don't know exactly what effect it'll have.

all iv done so far is set the "start power" to low cause I'm using an older 3200 2s lipo. (note, these packs don't do this in any other car)
and iv dropped the pinion 2 teeth, which kinda seemed to help but the problem is still there and my top end now sucks.
 
gearing should be good. hell it might be under geared.

i remembered a few days ago my SC10 did the exact same thing straight out of the box. swapped the electrics into an RC10T and dropped gearing and it still does it.

none of my other sensorless cars do this, and a couple are borderline over geared. weird.
 
21.5? Well that's why. Its because it's slow! Throw in like a 6.5 and it will be much better 🫠😆🤣

Not a sensored esc so that's why like said above
Is it over geared?
Like his short course trucks? No wonder why he can't control them. Its too fast for him

You can go out on eBay and find a 10bl120 SD g1 or g2 used or even new for cheap or even directly from retailers.
 
gearing should be good. hell it might be under geared.

i remembered a few days ago my SC10 did the exact same thing straight out of the box. swapped the electrics into an RC10T and dropped gearing and it still does it.

none of my other sensorless cars do this, and a couple are borderline over geared. weird.
Those justock motors are finicky. They really only like to work well with their matching ESC.
 
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