RoadRat

I just ordered the Novak. It's be here tomorrow and hopefully installed by tomorrow night. Is there anything I should be concerned with on this unit?

Headbanger

RoadRat,

Some people find it annoying when other people start redundant treads asking the same questions that have been answered in another thread.

If you took the time to cruise the the tread list and read through the threads, you would find you answer. You can also do a search to see if your particular question has been discussed already.

Also, you could have easily posted your question in the following thread:
http://www.rctech.net/forum/showthre...threadid=14279

I will stop venting now.

-H

RoadRat

Thanks for the head's up. I had already seen that post, but it has not been touched in a while so I thought better to start anew with recent thoughts and musings on the subject.

Elk666

RoadRat: when your car's wheels are not touching the ground do NOT run the motor and then apply brakes, aparently the esc does not like that at all, a warning i've been given from another novak owner, other than that try to keep your final ratio to around 7.5, i'm completly satisfied with my novak setup, great speed, acceleration, longer run time and NO maintenance
have fun!!

RoadRat

This might be a really stupid question, but I am new to modern electrics......how do apply the brakes on the Novak? Just release the throttle like with the stock RTR set up? What about if you are in one of the six profiles that does not have reverse, do you still just release the throttle, or do you now pull back on the throttle since there is no reverse?

Thanks for the heads up on the no load throttling.

Elk666

just releasing throttle will bring you to neutral, pulling back will apply brakes for both setups (foreward only and reverse mode)
when in reverse mode a second pull back will get your car to go backward.

RoadRat

Cool, thanks! That is good to hear, since it is different from the stock set up. I can't wait to install it tomorrow.

Elk666

another tip, if you want to shorten your wires don't unsolder and try to resolder at the motor, instead cut the wires in the middle, shorten them and resolder your wires

here's a pic:

RoadRat

Thanks. Doubt I'll be cutting any wires. I'll only screw something up.

Da4head

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Elk 666,

Did you notice a performance gain after cutting the wires shorter?.

Elk666

Da4head: i couldn't tell you, i shortened them b4 trying it

RoadRat: the novak comes with about a foot long of wire soldered to it LOL , seriously i removed about 2 inches of unneeded wire

TAO4R

sorry if i changed the subject but i dont really know much about the novak brushless motor and i was wondering y people like it so much. Isn't it kind of expensive?

davioh

it's cuz it requires no maintence....but i don't do maintence on my motors anyways...and how many T's do the Novak have?

centax error!

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Elk666
[B]another tip, if you want to shorten your wires don't unsolder and try to resolder at the motor, instead cut the wires in the middle, shorten them and resolder your wires


...and what is the reason for doing this? please explain

I cut mine and solder to the motor but did not have any problem.