My setup!
 

well i finally got my set up done only thing i will need is lipos later on down the road.

here is the setup on my truck
Emaxx 3905
MMM v2 with new firmware
C50 9xl clone motor from bidproduct
14 cell spc packs
21t pinion
stock 68 tooth spur(have 62 and 65t waiting in the wings)

and i just ordered my new charger i got
MRC Super brain 989
Astro blinky balancer

you guys think the charger and balancer i got will be good for 5s? i know that the charger can charge up to 8s but i wasnt sure if it will do it in a timely manner. i plan to stick with the zippy and true rc packs would the blinky work with those?

thanks again! and cant wait to get my stuff!! should be here soon and cant wait to ge some video up too.

The blinky should work fine with the zippy lipos, not sure what balance taps the truerc lipos use- a picture would be handy there. The specs dont list the power output of the charger in watts, just its amp and volt ratings, but Im gonna guess its got to be more than 50watts given its good for 10amps of charge current. In that case, it should do most lipos in one hour, which is a 1c charge rate at any given current/ mah capacity.

One more thing:-

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...ithoutpics.jpg

The 989 has a power limit of 120w. You should be able to charge your 14 cells as high as around 5.5A without hitting that limit, depending on how high they peak out at (I'm assuming 1.4v/cell).

Cool. Hope to see lipos in there soon (or the truck at all!)

lol ill get pics of the truck once i get home from work.i dont have pictures on my work computer lol. hopefully the parts come in before i get to the desert that way i can take the maxx with me!

cool and i dont think i will have a problem. all the lipos i plan to get are around 5000 to 8000 mah and i dont mind waiting an hour or so.

That's good. Just be ready for insane power when you get the lipos...

here is the picture of when i got the truck
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fixing the shaft i broke after two packs
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i havnt taken any new ones. ill take some tomorrow because its too cold to go get my maxx from teh workshop right now! and im tired but as soon as i get up ill get them going i need to tidy the wiring up though it kinda looks busy in there lol.

alright i just took these about 10 minutes ago. sorry about the quality the iphone camera kinda sucks. i cant find my good camera.
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...1/IMG_0199.jpg
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i just checked my package status from tower! and itr say its out for delivery!! even though it says that it is scheduled to deliver for the 3rd of december you think i will get it today? thats what i dont understand sometimes. well hopefuly i get the stuff before i go to work so i can mess with it lol.

Not bad- any specific reason you are using the lower motor mounting location rather than the central one? I doubt your stuff will turn up today though- it may have left towers warehouse, but your local postoffice may kidnap it at some point...

to answer your question neil it rubs in the upper mounting hole. the motor is too fat but im going to mess with it a bit to see if i can get it to go in there.

hopefully it does though because i wouldnt expect that from UPS maybey from USPS. even if it arrives tomorrow it will give me a day to mess with the charger and settings on my MMM and get it right.

so is your motor stil alive?

Yep- not ran it for a little while due to the weather and short daylight hours; it gets dark at 4pm! Good motors though for the price, the fins do make a difference to shedding heat it seems, at the cost of a larger diameter as you found. Thats about my only gripe really- they even come with a flat spot on the shaft now which is a nice touch- I had to grind my own.

thats good to hear neil. yeah i noticed that too. mine came with the flat spot ground on it. i cant wait to get this pupy going. im going to try 21/68 first and see how the temps are and hopeully i can use 21/65

has any one had any luck with these lipos?
http://www.hobbycity.com/hobbycity/s...0C_Lipoly_Pack

and i think im going to get these ones for sure
http://www.hobbycity.com/hobbycity/s...0C_Lipoly_Pack

I have the 5s 4000mah 20-30c lipos, I busted my tranny twice before I could run them down fully- mucho power there...

If you gear for no more than 40-45mph, then both lipos and motor will do excellently, but it depends alot on weight and gearing- your lighter truck has me at a disadvantage, so you should get better results and not need any cooling down breaks for the motor.

YAHOOO!
my shipment came in! the charger is pretty small. cant wait to use my truck later tonight! and all i need is the lipos and im good to go. so hopefully i can run a least the set of packs though. probally get a video up later on this week or next week,

Sounds good man. I look forward to hearing how the BP motor runs. Ive been wanting one.

well one of my batteries is acting really stupid. so im forced to discharge both packs and get them equal again. i think 1 volt per cell should do it. fan just kicked on on the charger. it reached 150 inside so i might stop it and change some settings on it. but only one pack is giving me trouble and it was the one used on the bec side of the evx.

and i will give my thoughts on the motor as well so dont worry about that!

well the motor did good through a set of packs. Didn't go higher then I'm guessing 80 degrees. It's like 50 right now so maybe that's why. I was doing all sorts of shananigins. Like donuts in cement grass some gravel. Won't wheely though and it cogs a bit but.i need to mess with my settings. It isn't performing up to it's potential because the batteries. I think with 5s this setup would be insane.

Well I'm off to tinker with it some more and charge me batts up.

But on another note has any used the lipo's I linked in the first page?

well the cogging is because of my batteries. they are not up to snuff. and to add to the list one of my batteries vented a cell so now i only have a 13 cell pack. i guess there was a bad cell in there. all i know is that SPC nimh packs cant handle the amount of power this motor needs. im thinking once i get my lipo it will probally wheelie till tomorrow and have better top speed and also get rid of the cogging. but for now i will enjoy my 13 cell powered truck.

im now off to heal my burnt hand and reconfigure my pack lol but this truck is insane! so much torque! i think with the 65t spur it will be too fast lol

Lol, I had a feeling those nimh packs wouldn't last.

LOL I know they were meant for smaller motors like the mamba max one. But I lost 2 cells so only running 12 cells and the packs stay super cool. Those two cells were defective so I can still have fun!! Tomorrow I have the whole morning to run it LOL.

well those spc packs are on there way out! they cant keep up with the demands the motor needs. i fully charged them and they were super slow. my five cell nimh pack was faster then the 12 cells put together! but i then got it stuck and since they are going out i just smashed the throttle and it slowly started to spin like if it was low on charge. tehn as it kept spinning it picked up to were it was shredding the ground! so something is wrong with the packs, mainly the 7cell one. for now ill keep running it like that until something gives out if anotehr cell blows (and i think it will) i will just use them as starter box batts for my mini inferno. so im going to probally get myself one lipo by christmas time.

im going to have to return my MP3 player i bought. good thing i havnt opened it that way it will be easier to return it lol.

anyone care to reccomend some lipos? 4s-5s would be good with about 100amp constant or there about.

www.hobbycity.com

Anything blue with zippy in the name will kick ass bigtime- I suggest the 20-30c 5000mah packs in your prefered voltage, they are great performers and bargain priced. Other option would be Mike's new unbadged lipos- getting great reviews and they too are very well priced (find them in the rcm store under batteries/lipos).

sweet ill check them out!