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If anybody thinks they have a nice 13.5 boost setup send it here;)

i got mine reall good, i tried nicks setup and it was very soft and fast. Had to adjust some brake and throttle and it was great. Just wanna try some different setups.:nod:

i think if you go to padge 210 her i have mine posted i also sent a hard copy to nick if you see him grab it everyone i have pt this in seems to love it for 17.5 up to 10.5

mark

about the epa settings. If I did make the mistake of setting the radio to 150% would that also make the motor feel real soft on the bottom? I ran smyka's setup for my 17.5 i boost and felt great. But in club and series racing we must run blinky. So I ran profile #1 with my motor to 45deg. I have my team c buggy geared 80/27 for tight indoor carpet track and came off at 105deg in 6min.

thanks

Stu- unless your track is really small I would think more gear. I run 75-29 with boost on a 17.5, so without it would need more. So I would try that first.

Make sure punch is up at 100%. Some of the profiles are preset lower to be safe for lower turn motors.

I'm on blinky for now. but I will do lots of testing tmrw with gearing and profiles.

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Originally Posted by FLHX1550 (Post 10099123)

Smart Brake is like a "2-Stage" Drag Brake. It essentially will give you a "High-speed" drag brake and a "normal" drag brake, and can really help with consistency at the end of a strait-away, especially with a tight sweeping corner at the end of it.

You have basically 2 settings that you can use with Smart Brake:

Max Brake Strength - This is the amount of brake you want to apply at "high-speed"

Trigger RPM - This is the rpm in which the VTX will apply the Max Brake Strength setting.

Lets say we use the following setup.

10.5 Motor
Max Brake Strength (Smart Brake) - 80%
Trigger RPM 16,000RPM
Drag Brake - 25%

With the above settings, you will go down the strait-away and let off to neutral and the VTX will apply 80% brake on it's own until the motor deaccelerates down to the 16,000RPM setting. When the motor us under the trigger RPM setting, the VTX will proportionally decrease the brake down to the regular "Drag Brake" setting.

IMO the Smart Brake system could be quite beneficial in the on-road world, where you have very high-speed, sweeping turns at the end of the straits. It will take some confidince to trust the esc, because in order to engage it, you need to go to Neutral at the exact point you are used to grabbing a bunch of brake. It will take some getting used to.

In off-road, it may or may not be able to be used, as track layouts tend to be more "point and shoot" at the end of your high-speed sections, or have technical sections (jumps). Also, with big jumps that require allot of throttle to get over them, one would have to be careful when jumping to NOT go to neutral as you will engage the 70 or 80% of brake that you have set in the Max Brake Strength. It has been common for people to use Drag Brake to adjust "attitude" when jumping, so I can see it being very important to be very consistent when jumping using the Smart Brake.

Now you can use just Drag Brake by setting the Brake Strength for the Smart Brake to 0%, and you will have traditional Drag Brake.

You can also use just the Smart Brake by setting the Drag Brake setting to 0%.

All of the settings will be very track specific (the settings will change from layout to layout, and as the day changes with varying traction levels), so this is something that will take some getting used to, to learn how the settings will work on the track. But there have been drivers in Asia running on-road who have managed to better their lap times by up to .4 sec just by using the Smart Brake.

thanks for your help. smart brake may not work for me at my track so i will just set to 0
cheers

Is it worth updating to the a30 firmware on a vtx10. If so what do I need to do it

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Originally Posted by njnewc (Post 10100781)

Is it worth updating to the a30 firmware on a vtx10. If so what do I need to do it

njnewc,

yes the new firmware has many new nice features:

- New Radio Calibration Process. It will provide more precise and forgiving process with all radio systems in the market.
- Smart Brake System. We not only want you to run faster, but also to have better corner speed before the sweeper and in the infield. This refined Smart Brake System was proved to have better overall lap time during our testing. It is dynamic / proportional and 100% tunable for different track layouts.
- Additional Brake PWM Frequency options. It offers additional Brake PWM Frequency options down to 600Hz for stronger braking performance.
- Optimized Boost Performance. It was known to be Acceleration Boost Timing and Top Speed Timing on Viper VTX series ESC. The updated firmware that works with the most advanced on board MCU will give you a different feeling of the speed

if you have the Viper PC link you can download the firmware off of www.viper-rc.com under the VTX10 Speed Control section or fill out an RMA on that same site under Warranty Services and send them your speed control. its a free service to have a Firmware update. Once they receive the speed control turn around time is very quick.

A30 software is pretty much a must have now the only way to compair it would be if you ever ran a tekin use stock program compaired to vegas 212 big difference .

gearing in florida for the clash i ran my x factory buggy geared at 76/30 with boosted 17.5

at home i run a 9.5 on carpet with same buggy i run a little boost 10 degrees and 3 degrees top end geared at 78/22

at the two races i ran stock on blinky mode i ran a losi geared 74/31 and a x factory 76/32

hope this helps

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Originally Posted by smyka (Post 10100898)

Question what brand buggy are you running and what size track you running on because i am looking to try running my 4wd stock buggy at 76/32 currently at 73/33
cheers

I just filled out an RMA on the website to send my VTX10 in for the A30 update. Are they going to give me a hard time because I don't have the original reciept. I purchased the ESC off of this website.

Just got to try out my brand new Viper VST 13.5 at the local track today and I was very happy with the power and how it comes on! Silky smooth power and temps were good!

Here is a quick vid on the Viper proguage and what it can do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcrSo..._order&list=UL

Rex