Higher pinions = safer MMM's? Or no? Someone's lying....

[suicideneil]

That just confuses people saying things like numerically higher or lower; why not just say taller gearing or lower gearing, as in gearing up and gearing down, or using a larger pinion or smaller pinion. Plain english = less confusion ( to me atleast, bunch of geeks ).

[J57ltr]

Well I am used to 1:1 cars so I use the terminology that is associated with them. You guys confuse me when you say “I’m running 87/17 in an XYZ”. To me that means nothing other than the ratio between the spur and pinion is 5.12:1 but it leaves out the rest of the gear reduction like the transmission or differential gearing. Like in a rock crawler where you might have a 3:1, in the diff a 5.12:1 for pinion and spur and a 2.72 for the transmission, which would be an overall ratio of 41.78:1. You RC guys are weird I guess.

Jeff

So we STILL haven't gotten a conclusive answer in regards to weather higher gearing with larger pinions = death to ESC's

[RC-Monster Mike]

Originally Posted by Freezebyte

So we STILL haven't gotten a conclusive answer in regards to weather higher gearing with larger pinions = death to ESC's

Here is a quote from this thread made by the owner of Castle Creations (Patrick):

In 99% of the cases, that is exactly true. Smaller pinion = less ESC stress.

Not sure how much more conclusive of an answer you are looking for here? 99% is pretty conclusive in my book. :)