Mad at LVC on Quark Pro-Car 33A

[silentbob343]

If it weren't for bad luck.......

I get the mini quake put back together and take it outside for a bit. As I do a pass down the street I lose sight of the quake as it passes behind a parked car. I turn left and let off throttle as I step around the car to see where it is only to watch as it hits the neighbor's garbage can, breaking an upper and lower arm. Tires extend past the front bumper so on impact they take the brunt of the force, will have to figure something out later on.

Sucks, but easy fix and now I have a lower arm I can send in to Duratrax for more spares.

I bring it in and check the the battery voltage, 3s pack was 11v+ a day ago, it is reading 7-8v. Put it on the Cellpro charger and it goes in to recovery mode. Well, that's good. If they are too low it wouldn't do anything and you pretty much have to toss the pack, but it stops at 11.6v which is still 1v shy of a fully charged pack.

I have it charging in normal mode at a very low rate, hopefully it will charge fully to 12.6v.

At least the ESC and motor were running nice and cool. I'm thinking that part of the reason for the low voltage reading was the pack did not have a chance to rebound. Weird thing is the low voltage shutoff on the ESC, set for 3.0v, should have caught it and shut it down.

It's actually set at Li-Poly Normal, but I assume it would be at least 3.0v LVC.