Recently had to send in my VTX-10R for warranty work and I just wanted to say that Viper took care of me in a timely and pleasant manner. Nice to see a company stand behind their products. Well done Viper, Thank You!
John

thanks John

Chad, I was fortunate enough to have one of the first Copperhead R's and R45's and was very impressed. Plenty of power, torque, and runtime was better than w/ my MMP/Castle 3800 combo.
I currently run the VTX10R w/ VST XL 4.5 and it also is very, very good.

Viper really did a good job with the CH and at such a low price point it really does make it almost a no-brainer.

Either one will give you all you need power wise. I like the fact when I can concentrate on driving better vs. if motor/esc is good enough for the track. Both give that feeling.

Ok so I wanna shoot myself again with this thing. I dont get it.

I was playing with some settings to just see about the RPM engagement points on the boost and timing and such to see any changes. Basically, no matter what I changed I could tell a difference except when I added timing it seemed the boost came in fast, regardless of RPM. Weird... might as well not even adjust the rpm!

Anyway, so for no reason now I have no throttle and it appears it wont calibrate. The orange and red LED started flashing simultaneously and I lost all connection. I couldnt power off the system so I had to pull the battery.

I powered it back up and still the red and orange LEDs are flashing, wtf... so I pulled the plug again since it still wouldnt power off.

I held down the power button to recalibrate, seems to be working. I pull the trigger, push the power button, tone and flash, GOOD..... push reverse, push the power button... no LEDs, no tone. Just the one main red LED is lit. I wait like a minute and let go of reverse. Tone sounds, lights cycle..... THE DAMN ORANGE AND RED LED ARE FLASHING AGAIN!!! No throttle, nothing. Steering works ok though. So I pull the battery again. power it back up, orange and red LED are flashing, nothing works..............

WTF happened, I wasnt even really using the darn system. Everything is VERY COOL, I didnt even drive the truck for more than maybe 30 seconds at a time during this whole testing and playing procedure.

Can anyone tell me whats wrong? If this thing is fried I'm going to be PISSED!

You unplugged the proguage befor saving your data then unplugged the battery causing it get stuck in Link mode.

To solve this read your manual on how to change profiles without the pro-guage and select a different one then you were last using.

And once you select a different profile link the proguage and go to the one you wanted to adjust and save the profile then disconnect the proguage.

Got ya covered Tom
And I have that other sensor cable for you too. Funny how you mentioned you liked how smooth the Viper was, I ran that other 4wd buggy in the 3rd qualifier that has something other than Viper in it and I could DEFINITELY feel the difference. The other speedo felt choppy and the brakes were mooshy. I'll be much happier with my Viper in that Buggy next time out, even though I finished close behind Mark with the choppy speedo

ok I hope thats all it is. So is this something that has to be done? After making a progauge change you need to save it? I'm pretty sure I did that, I always save and then load the profile just to make sure before I unplug. But whatever, if it fixes this I dont care!!

Weird I cant link the progauge if I'm stuck in link mode though.

It's a little loop hole I ah e gotten myself stuck in a few times.

You don't need to "load" after your done making changes. If you make changes to a profile just "saving" it stores it in the esc. Loading is if you want to change a certain profile in the progauge.

Remember the profiles are stored in the esc not the progauge. So when you "load" your pulling the profile to the progauge for changes or saving back as one you want to use.
Hope that makes sense

Gotcha bud. I figued this, its just what I did to be double sure that it took the settings.

Also its fixed. Thanks rider313 for the advice! Now I know if that ever happens again what to do. Might hit the track today to tweak this thing a bit more, I love playing with it!

I have been running the Viper Copperhead now for two race weeks in my TEN SCTE and I am very happy with it. I don't have progauge yet, so that can only help. ;-) I have ran about 15 packs through it with no problems.

1st place in my 2nd heat

http://www.liverc.com/view_result_fi...05_4x4_SCT.xml

4th Place A Main

http://www.liverc.com/view_result_fi...T_(A_Main).xml

Congrats jasontraci!!

Planning on running my Copperhead/VX4R at the SC Showdown Series at RC Excitment next week.

Good luck!
Jason

happen to me last night first pack on brand new 10R. It made it 5 mins of practice. The temps where 110ish. I didn't even land hard or anything. Power cut off but steering still worked. I will give it a few more trys before sending it in

Is there a reason why the phones arent being awnsered at the head office. I have called 4 times last week withing their hours, and no awnser. I left a message to call me back, and that wasent returned either.

I have an 8.5t motor that hasent been over 150* in the 3 times ive used it, and now the rotor has demagnitized itself. I dont know how it did it, cuz thats not hot for a motor, but it happened. Please get back to me guys, because il like to send it in to see what you guys think happened.