No, it seems I have luckily just avoided it. Good luck having yours repaired!

Ok, have a couple options to try thanks to kind people...but need to work out gearing:

The TP 1900 would have been ideal at a 13/14 pinion. Unfortunately I don't know the max rpm of hardly any 8th motors to know how to gear other vehicles!

I am going to be trying:
LRP 2200kv motor
Tekin 1900KV motor

I need to work out approx gearing to use on both, anyone know what difference the kv makes to the gearing/or experience of different makes?

I was thinking of starting on 13 on the tekin, and 12 on the LRP?

Have any of you guys updated to v1.6? It all works fine?

Thanks,

Dave

I will be running my rc8.2e with the ix8 and lrp 2200, the spur on the car is 46t, i will be running a 16t pinion. This coupled with 2x 6000mah lipo's.

I'm picking up the new V2 lrp usb bridge tomorrow when I'm at the track, so I will be updating the firmware when i get back home. I will report back on here if there is any issues.

Updated the ix8 today to 1.6 firmware and all works fine.

What changes are you seeing with the 1.6 firmware? Advantages/disadvantages

Would like to use in a 2s lipo. Was the problem fixed?

anyone know if the ix8 is good on 2s now after the USB update?

thanks, D

I updated the firmware before I had even ran the car so I can't compare the new firware to what it was like with the old one, but, I did run the car in 2s after I had updated it, as I was still waiting on my new cells arriving and I only had the one pack. The car ran perfectly well, as I said, I don't know of the issues the old firmware had but it runs good now. Ran it yesterday with 4s and all I can say is WOW, so smooth and the brakes are unreal. This is my first LRP esc and I'm glad I chose it. Top notch stuff.

2 different ix8's and 2 different issues. Had enough with this junk. First esc was cutting out horrible. Sent it back and they sent me a new esc and ran it yesterday and heated up beyond belief and thurmalled and motor also got real hot. So changed and lowered the settings as low as I could and in about 2 minutes it shut down... Just glad people I raced with tekins so I could race after traveling over 3 hours. Just hoping it didn't ruin my motor.....

I bought one of these recently and finally have enough time on it to have an opinion.

Overall I like the ix8. For anyone on the fence I would feel comfortable recommending it so long as the unit they bought has the newest software already on it. Its very smooth and even though it doesnt have a ton of programming options it has what I would consider most important/useful and is pretty easy once you go through it once or twice. I like that it uses modular wiring so its easy to remove from the car.

I originally planned to run this on 2s in my scte but it had some issues with cogging and brown outs which I suspect were fixed in the latest software update. I chose to instead run this is my 1/8 scale buggy because I didnt want to buy yet another option piece just for functionality that it should have had in the first place.

I have also noticed that my temps are slightly higher than they were with my rx8 in the same car with the same setup. I figure thats because I was running the current limiter at 90%. I dont really notice a difference in performance, just temps.

Yea. I see temps 10-15 degrees hotter on my ix8 than I saw with my rx8. Never a problem though. I actually think its because the ix8 runs using the sensors only. The Rx8 is actually a little more efficient using the dual drive where is switches to a more efficient sensorless drive mode after the motor starts turning.

The thing I like about the ix8 is that its 6 months old and still running.:D This about the time my rx8's would die. So if this ix8 keeps running then im happy as a clam.

Any update on the new firmware on 2s??

thinking about purchasing the ix8. I had a rx8. just a couple questions... are they reliable? are they setup to run right out of the box with no programing?