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Who needs a stupid speed control anyways..
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 7:31 pm
by j-sou
Just got this gem in the mail today. Popped off the wiring cover and discovered this:
And we've been wasting money on speed controls. You could have just hooked the motor straight to the receiver like this!
Can't imagine this worked too well...
Resistors in the tub indicate that at one point there was a proper msc in there. Now they are just for show I guess!
Re: Who needs a stupid speed control anyways..
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 7:47 pm
by GoMachV
Ummm....wow
Re: Who needs a stupid speed control anyways..
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 7:51 pm
by urban hype
You can do that but if you put it under load I bet it will burn the traces out of the board. What some people will do to get out of spending money always amazes me.
Re: Who needs a stupid speed control anyways..
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 9:11 pm
by GoMachV
Ummm.....no you can't do that! The white wire is a pulse. Black and red are power and ground. You don't have anything there to control power with. The esc is not just an amplifier, it processes the signal.
Re: Who needs a stupid speed control anyways..
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 7:32 pm
by j-sou
gomachv wrote:Ummm.....no you can't do that! The white wire is a pulse. Black and red are power and ground. You don't have anything there to control power with. The esc is not just an amplifier, it processes the signal.
Wish I read this earlier. I spent hours last night taking the speed controls out of all my other cars and throwing them away. Dang it...
Re: Who needs a stupid speed control anyways..
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 7:39 pm
by GoMachV
Lmao. You wouldn't believe how much stuff I've screwed up in my life. Google would have saved me lots of burned up servos and receivers.
Re: Who needs a stupid speed control anyways..
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 6:36 am
by tamiya
j-sou wrote:Can't imagine this worked too well...
Resistors in the tub indicate that at one point there was a proper msc in there. Now they are just for show I guess!
haha them resistors should be OUTSIDE the tub!
Re: Who needs a stupid speed control anyways..
Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2013 1:09 pm
by knixdad
This is the secret speed tip all the pros have hid from us for decades!
Re: Who needs a stupid speed control anyways..
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2013 8:31 am
by Blacktiger355
Just WOW! Must say this is the first time I have seen that. I am curious if it would even make the wheels spin though.
Re: Who needs a stupid speed control anyways..
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2013 10:04 am
by ChisaiKuso
Pfft ... I raced my cars like that for years.
Re: Who needs a stupid speed control anyways..
Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2014 8:42 pm
by bully
Ha ha that is ridiculously hella funny..
Re: Who needs a stupid speed control anyways..
Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2014 9:26 pm
by SFC K
j-sou wrote:gomachv wrote:Ummm.....no you can't do that! The white wire is a pulse. Black and red are power and ground. You don't have anything there to control power with. The esc is not just an amplifier, it processes the signal.
Wish I read this earlier. I spent hours last night taking the speed controls out of all my other cars and throwing them away. Dang it...
That was funny!