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12.31.2008 08:21 AM |
wow thanks for all these replies guys, its great! i also posted this on the traxxas forum and got 1 reply! :lol:
the outside temp when i was running was about 5 degrees C maybe? not sure...
about the batteries, i thought 8000mah was meant to last you 45 minutes, and 5000mah about 20-30 minutes. that was the downside of running 6s in the e-revo. i cant understand how my runtimes are that good. im gonna take it out today to see if it was a fluke!
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Originally Posted by BrianG
(Post 246744)
The other guys answered your questions pretty well, but I want to interject my $0.02 about #6. There should always be a spark when hooking up the your last connection because the caps are always discharged when you remove the battery.
Depending on which ESC you got: a "true" V3 with wires directly soldered to the PCB, or an V2 upgraded to V3 with connectors on the PCB instead.
What might be happening is that the first couple/few times you plugged the packs in, you ablated the heatsink on the MMM. The heatsink is VERY close to the power plugs, sometimes even touching. When you plug the batteries in, the heatsink shorts out the pack for an instant and basically vaporizes the itty bitty contact area between the heatsink and connectors. After a while, all the aluminum is ablated away and you no longer see a large spark.
Or, your battery connectors could have gotten pitted from the sparking during the first few connections.
Or, you just got better at smoothly hooking up your battery connections, which helps reduce the spark.
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I got the MMM combo, but the MMM has bullets all round, including the battery side. both bullets are touching the heatsink, and i am afraid of breaking them if i try to pry them away. does this mean they are shorting out my lipos? i remember hearing that CC insisted it wasnt a problem
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