I've been Slashed!

[Matthew_Armeni]

Originally Posted by lincpimp

Thanks! I still can't belive that Matthew ran his on 3s lipo!. I know that the motors are good for it, but I figured that the esc would smoke! I may give it a try with 3s on slightly lower gearing and see how it does. My current xl5/titan12t combo is in my tamiya high lift, which I usually run on 2s lipo. I guess we will see how 3s treats it!

Well I figured the ESC would be fine because Traxxas says you can use an 8 cell NiMh which is close to a 3s, and the stock gearing felt pretty low. It held up fine, not as fast as whats in there now but plenty for a track.

So, I repeaked my 4s pack (it was less than half charged when I ran it yesterday), took the Slash back out and wow, it's insane! Wheelies no problem, going half throttle then flooring it caused it to pitch sideways and lean hard to one side, at quarter throttle then nailing it it would sometimes wheelie if the traction was there. Drove around hard for about 7min, MM was 150, Medusa 2200 was 150, and the battery was 95. Went back out with the 3s 8000 MaxAmps pack and it was still plenty powerful but a lot more controllable. I think this will be my new setup, it ran cooler as well. Hopefully pics up by tonight.
Oh, and a tip, the VXL mounting plate traxxas makes, PN: TRA3725, lines up perfect with the chassis holes, and it leaves tons of space underneath to hide the BEC.