Hi,

I put a venom smar temp in my CEN MG16, but some times they stop the acelerator and the car run away... i put off the smart temp and the problem not appers again... Someboby have the same problem with venom??

thanks

Are you using Spektrum

no, the original Skyion.

i had this problem aswell after i set it up to return the throttle to off at overheat i replaced the hump pack and it went back to original settings and instead of closing the throttle at overheat it opened it up fully and obviously it wasnt getting any colder so the throttle just stayed wide i had to avoid about 20 trees as i was in the middle of the woods and stand on the car till i pulled the fuel line off which was actually pretty funny when i didnt total my truck but anyway thats probably your problem if you remove your batteries you have to set up the smart temp every time hope this helps

I'm quite sure the venoms hold your settings when OFF or CHANGING the batt. I believe it does default to C temp tho. The reason I asked above is because Venom says the smart temp is NOT compatible with Spektrum for some reason.

maybe i just got a faulty one then cause when i first set up it worked right but then had this problem or maybe they only hold your settings for a while cause i had the old hump out for about a week before i replaced it

Problem is due to a very brief loss of battery power due to the battery tray clips. If power loss is lessr than a 1/10 of a second(estimate) the smart temp will stop sending pulses to the servo and it will rest at what ever setting it had without any holding power. So during a bump or high RPM period typivally full throttle, the batteries will chatter on the contacts and the car goes of to the races!!! The fix is for venom to make a better unit and for a rechargeble pack to be iinstalled. I still have not decided what to do with mine!!! I am using UniRoss Hybrio batteries AA which are great but need to solder them together. They last a very long time and have a very slow self discharge rate like the Sanyo Eneloop batteries. If the loss of powrer is longer than a very breif time the smart temp will restart and you will get control in about 5 seconds or so which is much better than never. As you know when this happens you still have steering control and turning off the recicver and back on make all well until another bump or high RPMrev causing this to happen again!.

Ah ha, so I need to make myself a battery pack to solve this problem.

BTW, thanks for emailing me KroNoss, you saved me some time and scratch-my-head frustration.