Picked up a R1Pro

[jhautz]

I picked up a 1 race weekend used R1Pro for a song (Cheaper than a MM) from a local guy who bought it originally to run in his 4 cell oval racer and he didn't like it due some issue it apparently has with low voltage, high kv motors. So for the price I couldn't pass it up and I have no intention of running low voltage on it

Anyway I was just looking the instructions over and it gives settings for the LVC at 6V and 9V only. It says to use the Hotwire programing interface to set any other "custom" voltages. Well I want to set it to 15V damn it. but apparently I cant set a LVC on this thing without the Hotwire interface, and its not released yet. So I guess this testing will go on hold for a little while.

That just burns my butt that they sell a piece of equipment without all of the necessary accessories available to make it work.

Anyone know when the hotwire is gonna be available? Tower says Mid Feb, but every month they just move it back another month so you cant trust that.

[teknorc]

Same here. I'm running one on 4s without a proper LVC. I'm just testing things, but hope the Hotwire interface is out soon so I can run a full pack without worry. So far though, I really like this controller. Small and compact. It was a little more work to wire up since you have to solder everything up. The RX8 should hopefully be out in a couple/few months, so the days of running an under-spec'd ESC with an external BEC are almost over :)

[jhautz]

How has it been doing heat wise for you. Any thermal issues in a 1/8 yet?

[teknorc]

Before pulling it off the track (so I wouldn't damage my batteries due to no LVC), I ran for over 10 minutes in a Losi 8B/4s/Feigao 11L. No issues whatsoever. The ESC temp'd at 120-130 (no fan or heatsink). Very smooth controller.

[jhautz]

Nice! Is that buggy set up with your clutch system?

[teknorc]

Of course

I have it set up identically to how the eRevo clutch is set up. I'm using Racer's Edge Revo/Maxx clutch bells. They are hardened (I verified with the manufacturer) and use 5 x 10mm bearings so there is extra material around the bearings. The Traxxas clutch bells use 5 x 11mm bearings so there is very little material/strength around the bearing and they are not hardened. They can break which is why Robinson insists you use their clutch bells with their spur gears.

With the compact flywheel, the setup can be put in many places. The Revo clutch bells are also a couple mm less in diameter than a 1/8 clutch bell.

0 issues with the clutch setup in my buggies and truggies so far aside from the e-clip popping off once. Been using a screw with thread locker and some shims to secure the clutch bell since (like normal people do :) and problem solved. Plenty of power and plenty of run time. I didn't feel the vehicles slowing during a 15 minute main. I was able to clear all jumps at the end of the race just like at the beginning. Using 4s/6000 in the buggies, 4s/8000 in the truggies.

Hehe, a local tekin team driver has a proto hot wire (along with many proto R1 PRO's and all... He has had the speedo in testing for almost a year now, and I might just have to use it IDK whats different from the real one though.. He wont tell me

Let us know how you like it Mine should be here very soon

Pics of the instal?

[jhautz]

Wires are still a little "un-managed" but I just tossed it in last night quickly and wanted to run it today. I wasnt sure if it was going to stay in long or not so I didn't spend alot of time making it all neat.

Heres a few quick pics.

[jhautz]

Now that I'm thinking about this, I might throw the Neu 1515/2.5D in there for next week and see how it does running that.

[Arct1k]

You've been rather busy - new truggy and this one!

[jhautz]

This one has been running for a few months now. I just swapped the MM out for the R1Pro.

[gixxer]

sounds promising, keep us posted when you try the neu on it.

Nice!

Let us know how it does with the NEU!