Losi Mini B Power Issue

[Iowa_dude]

My Mini B is acting strange. It's maybe 3/4 power until I brake and then it's balls to the walls until I let up again, then it's about 3/4 power until I brake hard again. What's going on? Fresh batteries in rx/tx. Maybe the rx is shitting out?

 

[bill_delong]

How old is the brushed motor?
Did you break it in with water?
If not, could be a chipped brush intermittently losing full contact patch.

Very important to break in a brushed motor and to lubricate the brushes with comm drops to keep the brushes soft so they are less likely to chip if you wreck.

https://www.teamtrinity.com/trinity-black-death-power-comm-drops-4052.html

 

[Greywolf74]

Its mad at you for not sharing the Jack Daniels

If its not the motor, it could be the ESC/RX, or sometimes when a servo starts having an issue it can cause the ESC/RX to do strange things also. Long story short, you'll have to troubleshoot the electronics one item at a time.

 

[Iowa_dude]

Went on a parts run. Almost bought a new motor. Guys told me to reverse motor direction. Works fine now. Took several tries. There was a sequence but I dont remember. This is all the rtr stuff so yall probably ain't too interested "so it seems" all good. We're good.but now I been looking at brushless....

 

[Greywolf74]

Went on a parts run. Almost bought a new motor. Guys told me to reverse motor direction. Works fine now. Took several tries. There was a sequence but I dont remember. This is all the rtr stuff so yall probably ain't too interested "so it seems" all good. We're good.but now I been looking at brushless....

Thats wild. I can't imagine how that would fix that issue but seems like it did. interesting.