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09-24-2017, 07:07 PM
#947
Okay so I installed the pico as can be seen here:
I am curious to see how much pop she has as I left the 2 bank capacitor it comes stock with versus the 4 bank I was using with the hobbywing.
Some things I noticed:
- No fan
- It says on the case a product of the USA, are these made here?
- The case has a very robust feel to it nice, touch
- The manual could be a little larger on the text side of things. Some were like rediculously small.
- The ESC offers both sensored / sensorless mode and full sensored mode. nice!
- You can step the voltage for the BEC it appears, not just 6V or 7.4V, but steps between.
Some things that would be nice:
- The power switch wire isn't flush to the switch. so you can't run it standing up "flat". as I like using the switch, it would be a nice later revision if one ha that feature.
- As everything is "plug in, the capacitor would have been nice if it was too
- Reverse "stock" setting is really powerful. when they say 50% its like 50% of full forward throttle. HW's was like half of half lol. so keep that in mind.
An odd thing:
So after setting everything up I put it in practice mode to allow reverse. I in general leave my vehicles in that mode so its easy to do some hot laps an then race and not use it. It appears however the reverse delay has an odd way of determining when to engage, it didn't feel consistent on the bench, it may be different on the track though.
Something to watch that may need a firmware update if its prevalent for others:
When turning the vehicle off with the switch, it would give a throttle burst. I tried this on 2 different profiles and both did the samething. It mainly happens after you have throttle inputs from the radio (like driving) and you go to shut the car off with the switch.
It doesn't do this with the switch removed for obvious reasons (no power connected).
I would recommend NOT Using the switch if you have this issue as it could causing your vehicle to take off on you briefly, knocking something over.
Ebbtide, does yours do this?
I am curious to see how much pop she has as I left the 2 bank capacitor it comes stock with versus the 4 bank I was using with the hobbywing.
Some things I noticed:
- No fan
- It says on the case a product of the USA, are these made here?
- The case has a very robust feel to it nice, touch
- The manual could be a little larger on the text side of things. Some were like rediculously small.
- The ESC offers both sensored / sensorless mode and full sensored mode. nice!
- You can step the voltage for the BEC it appears, not just 6V or 7.4V, but steps between.
Some things that would be nice:
- The power switch wire isn't flush to the switch. so you can't run it standing up "flat". as I like using the switch, it would be a nice later revision if one ha that feature.
- As everything is "plug in, the capacitor would have been nice if it was too
- Reverse "stock" setting is really powerful. when they say 50% its like 50% of full forward throttle. HW's was like half of half lol. so keep that in mind.
An odd thing:
So after setting everything up I put it in practice mode to allow reverse. I in general leave my vehicles in that mode so its easy to do some hot laps an then race and not use it. It appears however the reverse delay has an odd way of determining when to engage, it didn't feel consistent on the bench, it may be different on the track though.
Something to watch that may need a firmware update if its prevalent for others:
When turning the vehicle off with the switch, it would give a throttle burst. I tried this on 2 different profiles and both did the samething. It mainly happens after you have throttle inputs from the radio (like driving) and you go to shut the car off with the switch.
It doesn't do this with the switch removed for obvious reasons (no power connected).
I would recommend NOT Using the switch if you have this issue as it could causing your vehicle to take off on you briefly, knocking something over.
Ebbtide, does yours do this?
09-24-2017, 08:26 PM
#948
Okay so I installed the pico as can be seen here:
I am curious to see how much pop she has as I left the 2 bank capacitor it comes stock with versus the 4 bank I was using with the hobbywing.
Some things I noticed:
- No fan
- It says on the case a product of the USA, are these made here?
- The case has a very robust feel to it nice, touch
- The manual could be a little larger on the text side of things. Some were like rediculously small.
- The ESC offers both sensored / sensorless mode and full sensored mode. nice!
- You can step the voltage for the BEC it appears, not just 6V or 7.4V, but steps between.
Some things that would be nice:
- The power switch wire isn't flush to the switch. so you can't run it standing up "flat". as I like using the switch, it would be a nice later revision if one ha that feature.
- As everything is "plug in, the capacitor would have been nice if it was too
- Reverse "stock" setting is really powerful. when they say 50% its like 50% of full forward throttle. HW's was like half of half lol. so keep that in mind.
An odd thing:
So after setting everything up I put it in practice mode to allow reverse. I in general leave my vehicles in that mode so its easy to do some hot laps an then race and not use it. It appears however the reverse delay has an odd way of determining when to engage, it didn't feel consistent on the bench, it may be different on the track though.
Something to watch that may need a firmware update if its prevalent for others:
When turning the vehicle off with the switch, it would give a throttle burst. I tried this on 2 different profiles and both did the samething. It mainly happens after you have throttle inputs from the radio (like driving) and you go to shut the car off with the switch.
It doesn't do this with the switch removed for obvious reasons (no power connected).
I would recommend NOT Using the switch if you have this issue as it could causing your vehicle to take off on you briefly, knocking something over.
Ebbtide, does yours do this?
I am curious to see how much pop she has as I left the 2 bank capacitor it comes stock with versus the 4 bank I was using with the hobbywing.
Some things I noticed:
- No fan
- It says on the case a product of the USA, are these made here?
- The case has a very robust feel to it nice, touch
- The manual could be a little larger on the text side of things. Some were like rediculously small.
- The ESC offers both sensored / sensorless mode and full sensored mode. nice!
- You can step the voltage for the BEC it appears, not just 6V or 7.4V, but steps between.
Some things that would be nice:
- The power switch wire isn't flush to the switch. so you can't run it standing up "flat". as I like using the switch, it would be a nice later revision if one ha that feature.
- As everything is "plug in, the capacitor would have been nice if it was too
- Reverse "stock" setting is really powerful. when they say 50% its like 50% of full forward throttle. HW's was like half of half lol. so keep that in mind.
An odd thing:
So after setting everything up I put it in practice mode to allow reverse. I in general leave my vehicles in that mode so its easy to do some hot laps an then race and not use it. It appears however the reverse delay has an odd way of determining when to engage, it didn't feel consistent on the bench, it may be different on the track though.
Something to watch that may need a firmware update if its prevalent for others:
When turning the vehicle off with the switch, it would give a throttle burst. I tried this on 2 different profiles and both did the samething. It mainly happens after you have throttle inputs from the radio (like driving) and you go to shut the car off with the switch.
It doesn't do this with the switch removed for obvious reasons (no power connected).
I would recommend NOT Using the switch if you have this issue as it could causing your vehicle to take off on you briefly, knocking something over.
Ebbtide, does yours do this?
09-25-2017, 07:29 AM
#951
Be curious too. It sounds like its supposed to be both a 4x4 SCT and 1/8 esc as well if I recall correctly, something along the same concept as the XR8 SCT Pro which I currently use and is a great ESC. I am hopeful if that is the case, the price reflects that as well.
09-25-2017, 10:14 AM
#952
yeah there really is only one issue that stands out the most to me is the power switch thing. If I have time today or tomorrow I am going to wire up the MMax Pro I have here for my 4wd buggy and see if it does that as well, and then get my daughters vehicles equipped. Just got to be a late day yesterday so didn't do mine all of mine with Maclan stuff.
Be curious too. It sounds like its supposed to be both a 4x4 SCT and 1/8 esc as well if I recall correctly, something along the same concept as the XR8 SCT Pro which I currently use and is a great ESC. I am hopeful if that is the case, the price reflects that as well.
Be curious too. It sounds like its supposed to be both a 4x4 SCT and 1/8 esc as well if I recall correctly, something along the same concept as the XR8 SCT Pro which I currently use and is a great ESC. I am hopeful if that is the case, the price reflects that as well.
09-25-2017, 03:59 PM
#953
09-25-2017, 06:36 PM
#955
I have a te 17.5 in my v3fm, it's a fairly small with some fast sweepers but also 180 tight turns mixed in on high bite carpet, should I leave timing as is or adjust it? Thoughts
09-26-2017, 05:41 AM
#956
09-26-2017, 07:06 AM
#957
Couple notes on the conversations:
-Pico was heavily tested in a 4wd with a 13.5, should be no issues there. We tested OK without the fan, but I would recommend it, especially if you don't cut vents in your body (I don't if I can avoid it).
-I don't have a switch in front of me, will have to look at home. Honestly, I have tested them to make sure they work, but I don't ever use one since we developed the MMax - plug and play!! I believe (off the top of my head), they are the same switch MMax and Pico
-Manual should note that there are multiple set up profiles available, unless they changed the manual since I set it up.
-Pico was heavily tested in a 4wd with a 13.5, should be no issues there. We tested OK without the fan, but I would recommend it, especially if you don't cut vents in your body (I don't if I can avoid it).
-I don't have a switch in front of me, will have to look at home. Honestly, I have tested them to make sure they work, but I don't ever use one since we developed the MMax - plug and play!! I believe (off the top of my head), they are the same switch MMax and Pico
-Manual should note that there are multiple set up profiles available, unless they changed the manual since I set it up.
09-26-2017, 07:54 AM
#958
what radio are you using Ebbtide? I use the Futaba 3PV and the R204GF-E receivers. Support mentioned to try a failsafe setting if one is available. Due to weather buggy won't run this week 
So I'll try and test it out and confirm.
Worse case I can remove the switch connection however I like the switch as far as when you need to shut off a vehicle that is out of action at the race versus pulling the wires direct. But if that's how it needs to be till sorted thats fine.
I should be able to check today though.
nikos2002: For that up coming esc that has will work for 1/8, will that cover 1/8 truggy and what kind of dimenisions are we looking at? If you can't answer that yet, can you confirm if the ESC is being tested in the Tekin ET48 line of vehicles with a truggy sized motor? This is the main area where I have seen fitment issues due to how close the motors get to the ESC and can interfere with the sensor wire placement (esc could bump the wire)
So I'll try and test it out and confirm.Worse case I can remove the switch connection however I like the switch as far as when you need to shut off a vehicle that is out of action at the race versus pulling the wires direct. But if that's how it needs to be till sorted thats fine.
I should be able to check today though.
nikos2002: For that up coming esc that has will work for 1/8, will that cover 1/8 truggy and what kind of dimenisions are we looking at? If you can't answer that yet, can you confirm if the ESC is being tested in the Tekin ET48 line of vehicles with a truggy sized motor? This is the main area where I have seen fitment issues due to how close the motors get to the ESC and can interfere with the sensor wire placement (esc could bump the wire)
09-26-2017, 08:03 AM
#959
what radio are you using Ebbtide? I use the Futaba 3PV and the R204GF-E receivers. Support mentioned to try a failsafe setting if one is available. Due to weather buggy won't run this week So I'll try and test it out and confirm.
Worse case I can remove the switch connection however I like the switch as far as when you need to shut off a vehicle that is out of action at the race versus pulling the wires direct. But if that's how it needs to be till sorted thats fine.
I should be able to check today though.
nikos2002: For that up coming esc that has will work for 1/8, will that cover 1/8 truggy and what kind of dimenisions are we looking at? If you can't answer that yet, can you confirm if the ESC is being tested in the Tekin ET48 line of vehicles with a truggy sized motor? This is the main area where I have seen fitment issues due to how close the motors get to the ESC and can interfere with the sensor wire placement (esc could bump the wire)
So I'll try and test it out and confirm.Worse case I can remove the switch connection however I like the switch as far as when you need to shut off a vehicle that is out of action at the race versus pulling the wires direct. But if that's how it needs to be till sorted thats fine.
I should be able to check today though.
nikos2002: For that up coming esc that has will work for 1/8, will that cover 1/8 truggy and what kind of dimenisions are we looking at? If you can't answer that yet, can you confirm if the ESC is being tested in the Tekin ET48 line of vehicles with a truggy sized motor? This is the main area where I have seen fitment issues due to how close the motors get to the ESC and can interfere with the sensor wire placement (esc could bump the wire)
09-26-2017, 08:05 AM
#960
Couple notes on the conversations:
-Pico was heavily tested in a 4wd with a 13.5, should be no issues there. We tested OK without the fan, but I would recommend it, especially if you don't cut vents in your body (I don't if I can avoid it).
-I don't have a switch in front of me, will have to look at home. Honestly, I have tested them to make sure they work, but I don't ever use one since we developed the MMax - plug and play!! I believe (off the top of my head), they are the same switch MMax and Pico
-Manual should note that there are multiple set up profiles available, unless they changed the manual since I set it up.
-Pico was heavily tested in a 4wd with a 13.5, should be no issues there. We tested OK without the fan, but I would recommend it, especially if you don't cut vents in your body (I don't if I can avoid it).
-I don't have a switch in front of me, will have to look at home. Honestly, I have tested them to make sure they work, but I don't ever use one since we developed the MMax - plug and play!! I believe (off the top of my head), they are the same switch MMax and Pico
-Manual should note that there are multiple set up profiles available, unless they changed the manual since I set it up.
I've got two spare fans from my Mmax pros so I may just throw one of those on the Pico.