Yeah, I know about 'ol Neil. I can take it tho'
In fact... he went off on me in the TRX forum about something stupid. Which I didn't mind. I took it all with a grain of salt. But he was REALLY on one that day, and just brutal. I responded to his post and didn't back down one bit. But somehow or another the Traxxas Police Dept caught wind of the thread and banned him! HA! I felt so bad, because I didn't feel it was necc to do that. Those guys over there are the touchiest people in the world if you ask me.
Any-hoo.... I'd like to stick w/ the Moabs, yes. But let's be clear on something... 58mph was not achieved using the Moabs! This run where the ESC smoke was the first time I'd ever ran them. And I SWEAR on my life that I was not running hard, or even close to hard. I didn't have a lot of room to do that. I mostly putted around the yard throwing wheelies while everyone there looked in amazement. I also let my Bro-in-Law drive it, and he almost crapped his pants. He could barely drive it, and he for sure never got on it because he was scared too. Then I took over and would do a jump, circle back, do a jump, circle back, repeat... then it stopped moving, and the rest is history.
With the Badlands... I would run it WOT down the street over and over, flew around my giant yard in an oval, pull a jump, repeat. I drove it HARD and never with a problem.
I will admit though, that occasionally after a jump, the landing would cause the red wire from the ESC to pull out of the right battery lead. I'd power off the ESC, reconnect it, turn the ESC back on and go. That's what I thought happened when the truck stopped running the other day. I had just landed a simple jump, started to drive it back to me, and it stopped. I thought the wire had came loose, but it hadn't.
I'm going to try some different Spur gears for sure. But in trying new spurs, what would you suggest? Maybe leave the pinions and change the spur to something bigger? I don't want to smoke the new ESC "experimenting".
I LIKE the Badlands though. Don't get me wrong. They are the bomb on dirt! And they literally RIP grass from the ground. But they are almost too grippy sometimes. I was digging the Moabs because they looked good and they weren't as grippy. I could do some drifting type turnarounds. Perhaps getting some Relux rims and some other kind of tire would be best though. Something the size of the Badlands, just a different tread. I'll say that the Traxxas Response Pro tires I have on my 3.3 Revo are probably the best tire I've yet to run, and I've run lots. They actually "sing" when running across whatever surface. But they are mounted on 17mm splined hexes, and I don't want to covert the ERBE over to that size.
As far as runtime is concerned, I can't say for sure w/ the Moabs. But w/ the Badlands, same gearing, I was getting probably close to 30min runtime. Because I wasn't hell bent for speed the whole time. it would take about an hour to sync charge them both.
It's so strange to me that perhaps the settings with my radio could have been off somehow. When I go home tonight to look, what specifically should I look for? But it's all moot since I can't verify anything on the ESC right?
Also doesn't the fact that I have a Neu 1515 2.df come in to play? Wouldn't it's ability to slow the truck down have anything to do with the uber powerful braking? Heck, I was thinking of going from 30%, down from 50%, and taking it to 20% even!
Plus, since I was running the RC Monster Hybrid 1/8 diff's, wouldn't that have actually lowered my gear ratio a bit more? One thing I failed to consider when putting the Moabs on I guess.