On-road BL project

[glassdoctor]

nice.

Can you have the battery laying flat on the chassis... regular style 6 cell pack? The MM should be able to fit next to the motor... it's smaller than I expected.

I got mine at Hobby Haven last week.

[BrianG]

You live in Des Moines too?

The batts might be able to fit flat along the motor mount, but I made the holder for a 2s2p eMoli pack, but happens to fit a hump 6-cell NiMH pack as well. That's why I made the holder walls angled. Even then, the dirt guards on the sides angle up and there are screw lumps where they mount to the chassis and they get in the way. You'd have to raise the battery holder bottom about 9mm to clear the screw lumps and angles. For strength, everything is mounted to the Al bottom, not on the plastic dirt guards.

[BrianG]

Sweet!

I've been visiting the Castle Creations site every couple of days hoping that the "Product is currently back ordered approximately 3 weeks" notice would be gone. Well, I got tired of waiting and checking so I placed an order through them for the 4600 system. I just got an email saying it was shipping today! Yippee! :dft003:

[BrianG]

BTW: What size shaft do the Mamba Max motors use? It looks like 1/8", but I want to be sure before I order a pinion...