I agree it is awful soldering, it has been resoldered a few times over the past few weeks to try to fit into the body better, also redid the soldering when I changed out the capacitor. I will redo them to make them look better, but I have had the issue with every solder job so far.

And the tire thing is even more frustrating... my friend that has the $25esc, $30 motor, etc.. and cheap batts, also has balding chinese tires... He has to literally feather his throttle or the car basically jumps off the ground. My car stays planted like its supposed to, just doesn't have the oomph i was expecting.

The track's I have been running aren't big. 2 of them are very small, and one is mediumish. Here are the 3 tracks below.

I was running
14t @ S&S
15-17t @ DDHRC
16t @ FZRC


After work ill try to get my logs from hotwire and post my setup.
Thanks for the help.

Deceit, could it be that your friends motor just has more punch? I'm thinking diff manufacter's motors have diff power curves. Are you having any trouble clearing jumps? In my eb48.3, i run a 19t pinion, torq of 7 and thr min of 2. I don't remember my freq settings but it more on the smooth side (higher than default) on the thr. However, I personally prefer a smoother throttle as long as I can easily clear all the jumps because I can control my corning speed and jumping distance better.

RX8 GEN2 and Hotwire connected with DX6R
 

Team Tekin, I see JRMITCH has his DX6R. Has Tekin tested the radios included Hotwire App and connecting the DX6R to the RX8 GEN2?
If so or if not when possible will you test and list any parts that will be needed to make changes.
Thank You in advance

The Spectrum team guys like Ryan Dunford have been using it. Right now it's "wired" but the new BLE Hotwire will allow for wireless connectivity.

I have a few SMC 4s 6500mah 60c batts for my EB48, and I have a bunch of SMC 5000mah 50c 2s batts (that I use for my SCT) that I was intending on linking together as spares when my main batts are down.

Now with the tight area of the EB, I would have to stagger them and have them flipped away from each other like in my pic..

I am wondering if that added length of the battery line + link line would cause issues with the ESC? I have read that having longer lines is hard on the ESC, with the increased resistance, etc... but wasn't sure at what length that happens. I don't want any extra strain on my RX8, was just wanting to use the extra batts if possible. Not a big deal if i can't.

Threads like this scare me away from this...


While I am not to concerned with the lipo's, I just don't want to damage my Tekin system.

Those lengths are perfectly fine. Yes, some threads have very valid points about the things that can cause speed controls to fail, but they can be a bit doomsday about how an extra 2" of wire will destroy everything. You are well within the intended design of the RX8. It has built in capacitors for that exact reason and having them directly on the board is even better than adding them externally. Running very low C-rated packs is way more detrimental than a foot of wire.

Just make sure the spacers you use to hold the packs in that configuration don't have any give. Don't want the bullet plugs to take a beating and cause the internal solder joints to fail.

thanks, i was worried cause that is a lot of extra wire... Thanks for the tip about the spacers.

I ran long battery wires running dual shorty packs in my 8ight 3.0. Ran that way well over a year and no issues.

http://site.petitrc.com/setup/losi/s...ctronicsSetup/

Does anyone have a idea of whats going on here? This started after I bound all my RX's to 1 Radio, and made my RX8 always hot (the power switch wire got cut). It only does this off take off, and is perfectly fine after 10% throttle... I can still run on the track fine, and have no issues, but id still like to figure out why it is doing this so I can fix it.

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I would start by replacing your sensor wire.

It's cogging. Are you running a sensor wire? Try unplugging it and see if it improves. If so, you have a bad sensor lead. If you are not running a sensor wire, you should.

I am running a Tekin sensor wire on both my EB and SCT, I unplugged and plugged it back in, I haven't tried running it unplugged....

Still does it without a sensor wire, I reset the hotwire settings too and it still does it. Any ideas??

You're assuming the sensor wire is the issue. Note that if you unplug/plug in the sensor harness you should cycle the power switch or battery on/off to re test the system.

The Rx8 is equipped with a sensor tester feature, the video of the same feature on the RS Gen2 is on our YouTube channel.

hotwire 3.0 release date???