thehuntingterminator

here's a video guys about my online store coming up. i'm just posting it here because i know some of yall had been asking about it.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsDUqpeiTog[/youtube]

redfisher1974

I will have to take one for a test drive...my 2003 van is nearing the end of its life.

redfisher1974

I wish you luck.

thehuntingterminator

thanks man, appreciate it!

redfisher1974

Hey if i owned a traxxas I would buy a part or two, but I sold my one and only traxxas rc....

nitro-rob

My storm is in need of a few parts that are stuck in the mail. I notice I've been getting four pieces of mail per day since the strike ended and most of it is bills and spam (work to rule?). The truck runs but the slipper goes loose easily, I have a stretched A-arm and a bunch of other small things that need to be done. It all adds up to the truck being off from its true form.

thehuntingterminator

glad to hear someone else is needing parts too! i broke an a-arm the other day on my Rustler VXL, and since then i've just rigged it to work with a piece of nylon string and some repositioning of the pin. i have a brand new stocker, but i'm waiting to pick up a set of RPM arms this weekend at my LHS. then i plan on getting a 5300mah 2s lipo here in about a month for my bday. should give me good power and more importantly amazing runtimes.

nitro-rob

Hey, I know somebody that is opening an online store and is shipping traxxas parts. He's in this forum. Look up thehuntingterminator.

thehuntingterminator

well, i'm rethinking my online store. i am still going to sell RC stuff, but on Amazon instead of an individual store. sorry if this comes as an inconvenience to anyone, but it in all honesty it makes me sell more stuff as a seller and there are some benefits for the buyer too. i will still have the lowest prices on Amazon. for example: lowest current price on a Rustler XL-5 is $197 shipped. i will sell mine for around $189.99 shipped. hope some of you guys will check out Amazon now.

nitro-rob

My wife is set up on Amazon and buys there often. She finds it quite convenient. Good call.

mercerbeef

LOL Go Flyers. stupid mail strike, only bills are getting through. Charging lipos then I gotta find somewhere good to run it, The guys building the new football/track field at the high school should be off today! BUWAHAHAHAHA.

nitro-rob

Belated Jean Baptiste day! Sorry I forgot about that. Happy 4th of july in advance for our US friends. I've covered all three neighbouring nations now! (by the way, I am not much of a flag waver).

nitro-rob

Looks like the MMAx pro on my blitz is bad.  It hasn't been used much since the hobby show last year and I assumed the novak motor I was running then was the problem but it is doing the same thing with another motor.   I put the FS's ESC in and the motor on the blitz is fine but I havn't had a chance to test the novak yet since my bullet connectors that are coming in the mail aren't in and the local shop isn't open until monday.

thehuntingterminator

haha man! doesn't sound like your having very good luck, about like me yesterday! first, my cat chewed up my Micro SCT's charger (fixed that after awhile of tangling with tiny wires), then like i said i broke an a-arm this week, and then yesterday my ESC got all screwed up. i finally got that fixed after i got the button unstuck and had a Traxxas guy walk me through re-calibrating my ESC. guess its time to go bash!

nitro-rob

I popped a driveshaft out on the baja in 10 minutes and didn't have the tool on me to do a 30 second repair (stupid me).  No ball ends on those babies.  Blitz is not roadworthy and the FS is close and can limp along well enough.  I am afraid to go crawling tonight.

nitro-rob

My old novak 10.5T motor works fine!  I put it in the storm with 88/23 gearing (I am low on pinions) and it ran very well.  Temps went up to 180 in 15 minutes which isn't a surprise with the gearing (top speed calc'd was ~58 mph).   ESC fan went on too which is rare, its only happened once before with the castle motor.   It doesn't have near the power of the castle 4-pole and obviously the temps are a lot higher from the gearing.  I'm going to run it for a while to make sure its really okay and put it in my blitz when the replacement ESC comes in.  I am going to put on the heat sink and fan for that motor on tonight.  I reset the ESC parameters and ran it as-is and only upped the BEC voltage to 6 over the default 5.5V.

thehuntingterminator

glad to hear you got it resolved! i seemed to have gotten my issues resolved too. i just fixed them all myself which was a painful process due to the ESC having to been taken apart, but the ned result is a working ESC and 55 bucks saved. i talked to the Traxxas guy and he said it would be 55 bucks even if it was manufacturer defect. what a rip off! but while it was down i tuned the suspension and recentered my steering, all of which needed to be done! oh, and i got front aluminum shocks!

mercerbeef

my mmpro stutters at low speeds when I hook up a sensor less motor, but fine at speed. Didn't make it out with the trucks, maybe tomorrow.

nitro-rob

Glad you are up and running, too, terminator.

I just ran a full pack through the motor with the new setup and learned a lot. Run time was about ten minutes lower, I can't see it being more than 45 mph (likely 40) and it has much less power than the castle setup. To compare, I pulled the 4-pole castle back a lot to get it under control and it was still as wild as hell. The novak motor is running default settings and is much more tame but incredibly smooth. I could race this motor on 3s without an issue without changing the default settings. It has to be forced to wheelie and will only do so off the line for about 20 feet and the front end won't come up at any other speed.

This was the setup from last year before I build the CF storm.Sorry for the crappy photos, my wife has the camera at fireworks with my oldest son. Temps with 88/19 gearing topped out at 99F while running. When I stopped the heat sink fan after this temperatures on the telemetry and checked the can and heat sink externally with a thermometer temps went up to 120F . The heat sink is a lot of material to pull heat and its contacted to the motor with heat grease. Its not a bolt on, it replaces the band around the stator and makes contact through heat grease. A definitely must for people running novak ballistic motors. +100 to Novak for making this, it makes the castle blower system.....blow.


I pulled most of the parts I need to make the storm run well off of the blitz. Better to have one running than two down with small simple problems. I am just waiting for steering blocks, rear carriers and a-arms now but whats on there works pretty well considering the slop.

Next I will do a torque test and start playing with the software although its pretty good so far. I may play with more start power and advancing the timing to see what it does with temps. Its such a different beast than the castle setup.

The ESC problems frustrate me and point to my major problem with electric RC - you can't diagnose and fix everything yourself. I have to send things off and won't know what was wrong. It just seems less.........manly because of this.

nitro-rob

I just checked back and those rear tires were new on June 18.  I've counted six full packs run on my old setup before that photo was taken.  The last 30% wears very slowly.

mercerbeef

LOL is your storm european? looks like the motors mounted on the wrong side. Have you seen the Venom Gambler? The motor mount plate mostly, itsgot a finned mount for a fan. The ESE should of had one, to go with its fins.

http://www.venom-group.com/itemdesc.asp?ic=8614

DarksideVR

that is mirror imaged or something

nitro-rob

Damn default settings on the computers camera!  I also drive it on the other side of the road!

nitro-rob

Flipped properly for the nondyslexic crowd.

I installed my suspicious ESC in the other firestorm tonight and calibrated it etc.. I would have tested it but its raining. It looks like its okay from what I did on the bench, though. If its just a problem running sensored motors then all is well since I bought a castle SCT motor for it. The novak and LPR motors I have seem too doggy for a heavy SC truck (or even a firestorm).

I have the potential for some interesting comparisons on the same speed controller and truck:
LRP vector X-11 3800 kv
Novak Ballistic 4200
Castle 4-pole 3800
Castle 4-pole 4600
Castle 2-pole 4600

I will have two firestorms with the castle 4600s in them side by side tomorrow.

nitro-rob

I just read that it can run 3s on 4600 and the problems are running a 5700. All posts I see in forums say the 3s/5700 is a disaster but its the BEC and if an external is run then it will run okay but will not be covered under warranty.

http://www.castlecreations.com/support/documents/speed_and_gearing_chart.pdf