MGM Low Voltage Cut Off - Owners READ

[jhautz]

You dont have to loose the over current protection if you just set it to NiMH mode rather than race mode. That disables the internal LVC but not the over current protection. Then you could run the external LVC.

I had sucess with running mine with a slower spool timing, but I do agree it takes some of the fun out of the powerfull setup when you need to dail it down just to keep the oversensative LVC in check.

The external LVC that was linked to below works great by the way. Its no frills and no nonsense. It just works. I use it on a BK 12020 controller and its works perfectly. When the voltage dips below 3.0v/cell it just cuts off. When it comes back above 3.0v it turns back on. So when you hit your limit the truck just kinda starts to stutter a full throttle and you know your pack is about ready to dump but it still lets you drive it back in.

I actually like that solution. Could be a winner.

EDIT: One thing I just remebered... dont plug a half dead pack into that external LVC. It does seem to have a hard time sensing the number of cells in your pack if its not close to full when you plug it in. It might sense a 4s pack instead of your partially charged 5s pack. Could cause a problem if your not carefull.

Originally Posted by jhautz

You dont have to loose the over current protection if you just set it to NiMH mode rather than race mode. That disables the internal LVC but not the over current protection. Then you could run the external LVC.

I had sucess with running mine with a slower spool timing, but I do agree it takes some of the fun out of the powerfull setup when you need to dail it down just to keep the oversensative LVC in check.

The external LVC that was linked to below works great by the way. Its no frills and no nonsense. It just works. I use it on a BK 12020 controller and its works perfectly. When the voltage dips below 3.0v/cell it just cuts off. When it comes back above 3.0v it turns back on. So when you hit your limit the truck just kinda starts to stutter a full throttle and you know your pack is about ready to dump but it still lets you drive it back in.

I actually like that solution. Could be a winner.

EDIT: One thing I just remebered... dont plug a half dead pack into that external LVC. It does seem to have a hard time sensing the number of cells in your pack if its not close to full when you plug it in. It might sense a 4s pack instead of your partially charged 5s pack. Could cause a problem if your not carefull.

NiMH mode doesn't have a cutoff? If so this could be the best solution for now.

[hobbimaster]

I have never tried mt LVC on my 16018 either. I bounce back and forth between 2 4600 7-cell packs and 2 orion 4800 packs, so I just use NiMh mode. In all honesty its easy to know when to stop running a set of lipo's. Performance drops quickly and it will start to slow down. As long as you take notice in performance/speed loss, you'll know its time to pull her in. We use to do this all the time running Novak and LRP speedo's in 1/10th, pre-LVC days.

I ordered the Li-Saver, hopefully this fixes the problem. Still I would like to see a software fix for the LVC.

Anyone else using this method?