25 years ago when I raced, all the pros used a KO FET steering servo. It was very quick for its time (something like 0.01 sec or something like that). Was is the steering servo to have today if racing competitively and how have servos developed...
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I also use the Spektrum DX5R Pro but Futaba still has top of the line stuff along with Sanwa (Airtronics) and KO Propo
Anybody have one of these? I see there's a sale on them at Hobby King. FLYSKY Noble NB4 AFHDS3 Surface Radio w/2 x FGR4S Receivers . I noticed that the one they have has 2 Recievers that come with it, just about everyone else selling them have only...
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I have one, great radio. Build quality is good, and not just good for a Chinese radio but genuinely good. Performance is great, too. Low latency with tons of useful adjustment, and a really well laid out user interface.
I just found out that Bluebird Servo has a line of Helical Gear models. The only problem is they don't have any of those in a low profile configuration. Would there be enough room in an RC10 for a regular sized servo?
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The linkage angles aren't as good but its doable.
Depending on the design of the servo and the servo horn, it may be possible to mount the linkage on the inside.
I was hoping to take my vintage losi xx-4 and give it a brushless motor / esc system. The hobbywing 10BL120 SD had good reviews for 4wd buggies. So this seemed like a good option.
on the website it says Minimum 70C suggested, lower C rating may be...
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I have 4 BL120's all are great and powerful for how affordable they are, I run iP lipo 6200mah 120c shorty under $60.00 with 5mm bullet connectors.
If you want to keep the vibe vintage grab some Anderson Powerpole connectors (litespeed used them...
New to the lioo piece and I’ve got a question. I recently picked up a zeee 5000 mah 100c 2s battery. I’ve also picked up a cellmeter-7 digital battery capacity checker. It lists one cell at .033v and the other at 7.54.
This cannot possibly be...
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Lipo's are very easy and nothing to worry about with a decent charger and once you know how to use them. 99.9% of lipo disasters are from neglect or improper use.
I’m restoring/building a losi xxt. Light runner....maybe...as I am new to this Modern electronics, i was wondering what would be recommended for the steering servo. When looking at a main, looks like a bunch of different sizes, torque. It’s been 20...
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Hitec 645mg will do u good in your application. For more demanding running stick with savox 1257 or 1258. Savox 1251 low profile if space is an issue.
Trying to choose a Hobbywing ESC & motor combo for 1/10 off-road 4x4 buggy and/or 2wd stadium truck. Will not be used for racing. Is there any reasoning to pick the EZrun over the Quicrun, or vice versa? Is one better than the other? I've tried...
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Hobbywing's customer service is not what it used to be and their warranties have diminished to nothing. I have been a fan of Hobbywing for a while, but lately have been much less impressed. I still run them in all my race cars, but if you don't need...
I have been looking at small high-speed servos lately to replace some of my older ones and I have a question. Why, in this era of Lipo batteries—which isn’t new, are servo manufacturers still using the 4.8v and 6.0v speed and torque standard?...
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Airtronics servos are still as sharp as ever. Getting hard to find parts for them though. Airtronics 94145 is still the best 1/12 scale servo I have ever used.
Has anyone used any of the bulk EC3 connectors with luck. I'm referring to the packs available on Amazon and Ebay. Some seem to have mixed reviews but I wonder how much is just user error.
I've only ever used Dynamite branded ones. While they work...
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It's not the sorta feedback you were searching for but, for what it's worth, I received a pack of these el'cheapo EC5 connectors today from fleabay.
Dimensionally same as IC5 at a fraction of the cost. If I can find two good pair from this bag, it...
I need to get 8s power and there are two connectors attached to the ESC.
I have 4 x 2s batteries so I'm thinking that I can make two adapter cables as shown below.
Could someone please confirm that I am wiring this...
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So the 3s batteries arrived today. I'll get those Deans connectors swapped to IC5 next.
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One of the packs came with a voltage checker:
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I've been using a Hitec Multi Charger with 4 independently programable...
Once upon a time, upgrading from your mechanical speed control to an esc was a good chunk of a paycheck or a summer of mowing lawns for a kid. Brushless came along and was not the cheapest upgrade to an RC either. When I first started making the...
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Guys, due to the close similarity of this ESC to one I recently had frustration with, the 120A v2.3 waterproof ESC, I thought it would be beneficial to post some important info I shared in another topic, here:
My 9 year old son and I have decided to resurrect my RC 10 #6010 which I dusted off from the basement. I need a new controller, battery, motor and looking to upgrade to an electronic speed control. I’m thinking that these are the essentials...
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Jconcepts has new tires and wheels that have a vintage look but with modern tire technology.
Judging by the caps and seals, those look like bottom load shocks. I'd just clean them and install new o rings with the old hardware and spacers.
I am reviving my RC10T from the 90s. It has not been touched in 25 years and was running a 12turn brushed motor with a Novak Duster ESC and NiMh/NiCad batteries. I am using a Futaba Magnum FM transmitter and receiver. I order of desire I...
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I am also looking at upgrading my electric. I have one with an old ESC and the other had a manual control (or no control at all right now).
Looking at the brush less I see they are all 3 pin.
Is there a recommend brand of motor/esc replacement,...
Hello! First time poster here. I co own a hobby shop and we've just started selling and fixing r.c. stuff. I had a customer buy a brand new mini t brushless, and after the first run his back left tire stopped turning and the back right tire turned...
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I think I've widdled down the issues to one thing: the differential inside has too much play. The gears get kinda loose making 1 tire spin at full speed and the other only partially. I've been recommended to regrease? I don't see that will help but...
Searching new brushed ESC's for my old 1/10 scale FXT. Currently the truck has the stock 28 yr old Tamiya 540 brushed motor it came with when new. Two other brand new brushed motors I have to try out with it are; Reedy Radon 2 15T 3-slot 4100KV...
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Hi, how are you getting on with the 1080, I’m considering them for my brushed buggies but I was a little put off by the crawler specs?
If they can be reprogrammed with the included programmer to be suitable for ST/buggies I’ll give one a go....
I've been using various Hobbywing esc's for a couple years now and have been a big fan of their products. My No prep street eliminator drag car is powered with the latest hobbywing XR10 Pro G2 with the wifi module I purchased and installed it less...
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That really sucks to hear bud I was in the same boat with my R1 Digital3 the actual sensor port on the esc came out (im not the only one) with the sensor wire, same as you no heating issues make one hit cool off go again with fresh battery.
I'm thinking about re-powering my old LXT and JRX Pro SE with brushless power. But, other than the Le Mans motor/esc I just got for my Rocky (which I've not hooked up yet), I have no experience with brushless systems.
The big question I have is if...
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It's pretty much universal. A lot of escs have an unsensored mode, though most motors you would use in your Losi cars would be sensored. A lot of guys do buy non sensored stuff, but sensored has a little better control.
I have a quite specific question. When I got my first brushless (sensorless) system Hacker B40 Motor (or a clone) with a Hacker ESC, a lot of the motors were basically 380 in size, some such as the Hacker C40 were 380 sized with integrated...
Trying to decide on a mini servo for steering and not break the bank.
Any help would be appreciated.
Chuck
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I have no experience with Savox or Spektrum but I once fitted a Futaba S3114 to my B2. It's 11mm high, high torque and fast but with plastic gears I really didn't expect it to survive and it didn't.
Hitec makes a similar sized servo, HS-5055MG,...
Silly question but i'm getting back into racing after a long break and was trying to source some decent servos for my vintage racing.
Will the new digital servos work with my older Novak NES-2X and vintage Tekin receivers?
I have a collection of NOS...
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I have used newer digital servos with my old AM receivers with no issues. I usually put a large capacitor on the batt plug on the receiver to reduce brown outs since the newer servos draw a bit more voltage than the old analog ones. The cap also...
Forgive me if this has been covered before. I did some searching but couldn't find the answer.
I recently dug up my old cars and purchased a new 2.4ghz setup. I'm not sure how to situate the dual antennas of the receiver.
As always, any help...
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I agree, the vee arrangement seems logical.
My antenna leads are parallel and vertical. I typically run my cars on a track in the back yard so I've never actually tested the range. Occasionally, I will run my cars at a large church parking lot and...
Hello. I have not been here for a few years. I have a futaba fasst 3pm transmitter. Will the 6 channel receivers bind with it or do I have to buy the 4 channel receivers? They are hard to find but ebay has lots of 6 channels. The Futaba charts all...
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I'm pretty sure the 6 channels are considered aircraft use, which most likely will not bind. Futaba seems to keep air and surface separate.
It seems that all of the products coming out of China have ceased therefore batteries are scarce. What brand of batteries are being used for dirt oval? Who has them??
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It seems that all of the products coming out of China have ceased therefore batteries are scarce. What brand of batteries are being used for dirt oval? Who has them??
Contact Rotor Ron bud...............................................
Was wondering if anyone has experienced range issues with an EXESZ. I’ve had it for about 3 years and it’s losing range after about 30m away.
I’ve tried new TX aerials and it’s running on a new Lipo battery???
Cheers
So I have a 10.2 and a 4.1, the 10.2 has a GTB3 with a vulcan motor, think its a 7.5 the B4.1 has a XErun120 and some motor which I forget what it is, think it is a 8.5 but can't remember, both have Savox servos (1258TG) and spektrum receivers...
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I buy a handful of rx's and put one in pretty much every car except full time rollers, using the Flysky stuff so tx is <$60 and rx's are about $8 shipped
After a couple of hours of internet research, I still can't identify this ESC. Looks like a very shallow heatsink, with only two diagonally opposed fan mount holes.
Any ideas as to make/model?
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BOOM! Thanks for the speedy reply.
Looks like we can close the book on this one.
Wouldn't hold out much hope for the Creedence.
I replaced my kyosho's outrage msc with this hobbywing 1060 esc and i was wondering where i should put the esc connector. It is strugling to go to channel 2 and if i plug it there the batt plug remains empty, with the old msc the on off switch was...
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I would recommend F/B/R which is Forward, Brake and Reverse. Much easier on the gearbox and is quite a bit more drivable.
Hello everyone,
i need your help. I want to buy a new charger and im beetween SkyRC S65 AC Balance Charger / Discharger ( ) and SkyRC T100 Dual Balance Charger ( ). Which one would you suggest. Im trying to rebuild my kyosho outrage which was...
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Thanks for the info. I ended up here Ultra Power UP100AC DUO I hope its a good charger!
Hey guys can I run the balance cables like this on my charger instead of the bulky balance adapters it comes with, I only run 2s batteries trying to lessen clutter.
I finished building my new tamiya dark impact today and it was all driving fine until I went from full reverse and slammed it into full forwards and it paused for a moment then went into about half full speed. If I then let go of the throttle...
As the title suggests I'm curious what year brushless motors were first seen at the worlds off road championships? I wasn't sure whether to post this in vintage or modern electronics so feel free to criticize. :D
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I just realized I was looking at an article from 97, not 07. 😂
Why would / could one choose one over the other?
Im I correct in understanding that the rpm output would be the same?
Difference in torque maybe?
One is cheaper than the other?...
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My understanding was that efficiency is better with higher voltage battery and lower KV motor given an otherwise equal theoretical performance , I'm sure that's how it was explained to me , something like higher voltage = lower amperage and lower...
I’ve slowly jumped back into RC buggies and am currently putting a Kyosho Turbo Optima together.
I’d like to go brushless, but don’t want to go all out just yet. Lol, I did say “yet”, and with me that usually means I will end up spending a lot...
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Boost normally means increasing timing up to full throttle, so you essentially get more and more power as you squeeze the throttle.
Turbo generally increases timing beyond full throttle, so when your flat out it continues to ramp even more timing...
It's kinda of hard to classify this thread as far as which section to put it in, so I guess I'll put it here.
This is where I'm getting the idea from:
A solenoid engine powered RC car. 8)
Except I don't have a lot of fancy tools, so I'm taking a...
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True true, we'll see once I build it.
Some of the better made ones can hit 3200 RPM or more, like this one, a V12!:
Someone has made MEGA versions!
Here's a small, very simple, and rather slow solenoid engine car, but I think I can do better:...
A buddy that got out of the Rc hobby years ago gave me a ton of stuff yesterday. I made out like a bandit lol some really good stuff but one thing was a bag of smaller sized lipos (pic above). I just got back into the hobby last year so I have no...
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A buddy that got out of the Rc hobby years ago gave me a ton of stuff yesterday. I made out like a bandit lol some really good stuff but one thing was a bag of smaller sized lipos (pic above). I just got back into the hobby last year so I have no...
Since just getting back into the hobby after many years away lipos are still new to me and still learning some about them. Today a buddy gave me a bunch of his old Rc stuff that he does not need anymore. One thing was a Novak Super Rooster ESC. I'm...
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Perfect that's exactly what I was hoping I could do is just a plug in fix to make it work. Thanks.
I'm confused and hoping somebody has worked with one of those cheap, generic 20A ESCs like this one (there are many clones but they're all similar design):
I'm upgrading electronics in a cheap 1/18 scale crawler with a FlySky FS-GT2E...
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Just wanted to update this to admit to a brainfart. When I connected this ESC in place of the existing toy-grade circuit board and battery and motor connectors, I followed this exact video. I cut off the exact same connector as this guy did,...
This is a quick, easy, and cheap way to get decent power for charging your R/C batteries. It's just an Xbox 360 supply with the wires gathered into +12V, GND, and jumping the sense/5V wires together (to turn on the supply). Best of all...
Thanks for your help in advance. I've done a search on here with limited luck on here. Is there a 3S lipo that will fit the rc10 worlds car re release without hacking up the battery cups?
Thanks for any help!!!
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At the very least your gunna need about 2lbs weight on the front end to stop it lifting the front wheels ! , a good 2s hight C rating race pack is plenty , if you want to go nuts stick a 7.5t or 6.5t brushless motor in it and that's probably still...
Not really specific to Losi, but I'm having trouble with the modern electronics in my XX4. When I punch the throttle, there's about half second delay before I get full power. To be clear, the motor starts immediately when I punch it, but it's no...
I noticed a major problem yesterday, just slow driving on driveway about a minute and a half the brushless motor (4.5 Novak) , esc and esc cap (novak GTB) were hot I mean the motor wires got so hot that 2 de-soldered themselves at the connectors....
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this isn't the first time I've heard of the Novak GTB doing this type of thing.
Man first I heard of that, been running these since 2005 have one in every car with spares but guess what Im out of spares now since I messed one up myself, one burned...
Im so pissed at myself I put the battery plugs in backwards and totally smoked my GTB ESC now the damn thing cogs like an old school brushed setup and you got to push start the damn car to get it going :x :x :x :x :x :|
anyone can fix these?
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it's not terrible with the right tools. However, I'm not having much luck trying to find an equivalent mosfet based on those numbers. the symbol roughly centered on the left, is that an 'S' or 'R' or something else? ST is a possibility.
Hey guys. Since I've had my B6 clone charger I've been wondering about the current voltage display. There's a discrepancy between the main display and the individual cell display. For example, the main display may read 8.39-8.4v while the cell...
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I think it's normal and mainly due to lower quality cells or old batteries, they sit there nearly fully charged forever and take ages to finish or fail to balance
Hey!
I’m about to upgrade my 13.5t motor and ESC to 7.5t or something in that range. But I’m on a budget. About $100-150. Can I find somewhat good set of sensored motor and ESC for mod buggy class.
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Never tried them (or any electric motor for that matter), but I have been looking around for what’s available to me, and the Hobbywing Xerun and Ezrun motors and ESCs are what I’m leaning towards.
EDIT: Oh, I assumed you were looking for brushless.
I have a 3140kv quad pole brushless motor which broke down. To fix it I put in a dual pole rotor. Any idea of what this does to the kv?
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Thanks for your reply, but you kind of missed my question. The rotor parts came loose from the axle, so I put in a dual pole rotor I had laying around. Now I'm wondering what are the consequences of this swap.
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