New E-Revo - first impressions

[Jeremy1976]

One 5955 is plenty for the Revo. Two in my opinion is senseless and not needed. Plus the benefit of a single steering servo is the servos are not fighting each other draining your battery.

[VintageMA]

Originally Posted by Jeremy1976

One 5955 is plenty for the Revo. Two in my opinion is senseless and not needed. Plus the benefit of a single steering servo is the servos are not fighting each other draining your battery.

Hmmm... Now there's an interesting thought - but what's the fun of that?

Sometimes it nice to have the security of a nicely ovengineered setup.

If you have read through the manual, they actually have a nice 2-page write-up on how to install the servo horns and steering links and tweak the settings.

[VintageMA]

Noticed that the BEC on the stock ESC is 6volts - maybe that is why things seem a bit slow to me on the MMM.

Regarding gearing - the stock 68T spur is too big. I would like to try out the low CG mount holes, but that would never happen unless you were using a <18T pinion.

Looking into ordering a much smaller spur in the 54T - 58T range (amain has a great selection) and just got a variety of 32P pinions from Mike to experiment with.

[bruce750i]

I'm running something like 21/62 on lower cg mount, with it in the middle of the motor slide, the motor looks nice and low. no run time for testing gearing tho. might fit a 65t spur. 1700kv 6s

[VintageMA]

Originally Posted by bruce750i

I'm running something like 21/62 on lower cg mount, with it in the middle of the motor slide, the motor looks nice and low. no run time for testing gearing tho. might fit a 65t spur. 1700kv 6s

Looks like you are geared for just over 40mph with those specs.

More info if you can - What motor and batteries are you running?

When you get a chance to run it let us know runtime and temps and how the performance is.

[bruce750i]

Tekneu 1515 2.5D/f / FP 3700'S sure will post up some temps. Right now I don't want to scratch my new ride by driving it.

[VintageMA]

Originally Posted by bruce750i

Tekneu 1515 2.5D/f / FP 3700'S sure will post up some temps. Right now I don't want to scratch my new ride by driving it.

Better put on those heavier springs or it'll be on it's lid first turn you take.

I've got one of those on the side waiting, going to try it with a 3D first and go from there.