What do you guys have as far as Car Safety?

[olds97_lss]

I run the OFNA micro on both my buggy and my savage. No TRS though. It would take such a strong spring that I'm affraid it would wear out the servo faster or wear down the batteries quicker. Considering I run a 645MG servo for my throttle/brake duties on both my savage and buggy, the spring would be rediculously strong!

It's a weird thing. I didn't run one for 2 years and realized after a few run aways due to having a lot of radio interference in my area that I had to do something. Bought a FS off a guy, drove until it kicked in just to see how far I can go. For some reason, about 100 yards is as far as I can go... in some places 75 yards.

Anyway, I've been running one the past couple of years and feel much more confident. This weekend, I was having servo issues. I thought it was the FS acting up, so I pulled it, wired everything up, it was the servo, but the FS seemed to really make it worse. The servo was really slow in one direction but not the other. I replaced the servo, re-ballooned the receiver, put everything back together (savage with RCS cage) and realized the damn FS was still laying on the table. I took it out and drove it for about a tanks worth anyway without the FS and just felt so unprotected that I shut it down and ran the buggy for an hour instead.

Long story short, it's amazing how much you rely on things once you have them.

 

[rbmaxxbasher]

I recently had the maxx run away from me, although, I might add my steering worked.

Full throttle with steering, that was interesting. I was lucky though I carefully, oh so very carefully steered it over a couple lawns and into an old mattress.

I had my neighbor put it up while I was maneuvering my maxx away from crash points (curbs, trees, cars, parked cars, go carts, ect. the list goes on.)

I smacked the mattress so hard, it has a dent about 4 inches deep It was hualin' ass to say the least.

Now it has a duratrax failsafe, along with a new radio.
My new 1/8th scale also has the same failsafe. Also my rustler which I recently obtained will too have the same failsafe.

 

[redhatman]

rbmaxxbasher, how fast was your maxx going?