Motor brakes or mechanical?

[Ryu James]

Originally Posted by Mozzy

Yep, same track, same surface, same ambiant & battery temps, but, the motor temps were slightly higher when using motor brakes.
I'm guessing with the motor braking it creates more heat to make the motor brake. Could that be the reason?

that is exactly the reason. this is advertised in all of Teknos conversion ads; that mech. brakes result in lower temps. your motor has to work a lot harder to stop a 9lb truck by spinning in reverse than it does when you let a servo do the work.

btw, the proof is in the pudding. 4mins is mins. more than i have heard from anyone seeing increase the other way around. granted you would get a more accurate depiction if you recorded say...10 run times of each setup with the exact same setup.

Mozzy, do you always track your runtime? if so, when you had motor brakes did your runtimes ever vary by more than 4mins? if so, then it is simply just that much variation exists in your runtime regardless of brake setup. let us know more about how you did your test? more than once? just one time?