Trucking in space
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So, my first couple months of ownership of my first roller build were a bit rocky.
Some bad gear choices, some rookie mistakes, and some plain bad luck mixed with less than thorough pre-drive checking.
I now know Tekno makes the best pinions (as y'all told me at the beginning).
And one million weight diff fluid in the center works fine (in winter at least)
I had geared down to 11t pinion immediately upon running 6s. My motor is cool as a cucumber (40mm server fan) but the ESC was very toasty.
Well, this afternoon I found the cause. At some point (at least a month ago) I had removed the ESC fan guard to clean it, because it kept stopping. Well, I had not been careful with the wire for the fan (as it's a Hobbywing Gen 2 with the frameless fan that mounts directly to the heatsink, instead of on top of the heatsink) I finally saw today that the stoppage of the fan was because the black wire has been nearly sheared in half. I had been doing small 2 foot jumps at low speeds but my ESC got to 232 degrees, and for some reason didn't shut off (I have thermal cut set to 212 degreess. It smelled a little hot and I saw the fan wasn't spinning, and in the sun I saw the bare spot in the black lead.
I'm okay at soldering but there's like 2mm of wire to work with, so I may have to get creative.
Thanks everyone for all the help getting me to where I am.
And where I am is a truck that I can drive confidently on 6s without overheating or damaging anything.
I don't "bash" super hard, but I got this truck because it's fairly bulletproof for casual off-roading.
I also got a big boost in confidence regarding my AGF servo's steel gears and durability.
I hit a fire hydrant so hard that my steering linkage shed a screw, ripped the threads out, but the servo (even with fully tightened saver) took it like a champ.
I'm not about owning the most expensive stuff, and I couldn't look at myself in the mirror if I paid over $100 for a servo, but if anyone is buying a new servo and wants a durable brand, get an AGF with steel gears. I couldn't be happier with my servo, and with what I paid for my last 3 budget servos, I coulda saved time and hassle and got an AGF to begin with.
Happy holidays everyone.
Some bad gear choices, some rookie mistakes, and some plain bad luck mixed with less than thorough pre-drive checking.
I now know Tekno makes the best pinions (as y'all told me at the beginning).
And one million weight diff fluid in the center works fine (in winter at least)
I had geared down to 11t pinion immediately upon running 6s. My motor is cool as a cucumber (40mm server fan) but the ESC was very toasty.
Well, this afternoon I found the cause. At some point (at least a month ago) I had removed the ESC fan guard to clean it, because it kept stopping. Well, I had not been careful with the wire for the fan (as it's a Hobbywing Gen 2 with the frameless fan that mounts directly to the heatsink, instead of on top of the heatsink) I finally saw today that the stoppage of the fan was because the black wire has been nearly sheared in half. I had been doing small 2 foot jumps at low speeds but my ESC got to 232 degrees, and for some reason didn't shut off (I have thermal cut set to 212 degreess. It smelled a little hot and I saw the fan wasn't spinning, and in the sun I saw the bare spot in the black lead.
I'm okay at soldering but there's like 2mm of wire to work with, so I may have to get creative.
Thanks everyone for all the help getting me to where I am.
And where I am is a truck that I can drive confidently on 6s without overheating or damaging anything.
I don't "bash" super hard, but I got this truck because it's fairly bulletproof for casual off-roading.
I also got a big boost in confidence regarding my AGF servo's steel gears and durability.
I hit a fire hydrant so hard that my steering linkage shed a screw, ripped the threads out, but the servo (even with fully tightened saver) took it like a champ.
I'm not about owning the most expensive stuff, and I couldn't look at myself in the mirror if I paid over $100 for a servo, but if anyone is buying a new servo and wants a durable brand, get an AGF with steel gears. I couldn't be happier with my servo, and with what I paid for my last 3 budget servos, I coulda saved time and hassle and got an AGF to begin with.
Happy holidays everyone.
