Originally Posted by
RedDevil13
I race Dirt Oval. I just bought a Reventon Pro to race with my 17.5 "Outlaw Stock" class. Rules are ROAR legal blinky ESC and ROAR legal 17.5 motor... Then Trinity D3.5 happened and that was followed by the Novak ULR and the Murfdogg outlaw motors. Currently those are also legal hence the "outlaw".
My setup is Stock0 for the blinky and a Novak ULR ballistic with a 12.5 rotor. We race 4 minutes.
At the end of 4 minutes, as I am pulling the car into the pit lane under slow power, the ESC will automatically shut off. This seems to happen every time. I have a motor sponsor so I have been running my motors a bit harder and they get hotter than I would normally like, Ive been around the 170* mark as a high point, 150* as a low. I thought the ESC might be cutting off due to motor temp safety, I disabled it in the ESC program. It still happens.
I want to buy another Reventon Pro for a Mod Sprint class, but before I do, I want to understand this problem and make sure everything is ok. Anyone help me out?
Originally Posted by
SP Tech
Do you have temp and voltage protection off? I would start with that first.
Originally Posted by RedDevil13
Turned off voltage and heat protection it still shuts down after my race as I'm pulling into the pit lane. It hasn't effected my racing since I can finish the 4 minutes but it still worries me.
Still looking for some help here. I plan on calling up the company today to speak to someone. The problem degraded further this weekend. I set TQ went out for my Main and the motor never rain. I turned on the esc, lights looked normal, steering worked fine, no throttle. It once again turned itself off after the heat races and after the second heat race I tried to turn it back on so the motor fan could run to cool it down and it gave a beeping sound and a rapidly flashing red light (if I remember correctly) and then it wouldn't turn off. I unplugged it and ran out for my next race. After that, it never worked. Yesterday at home I soldered the motor to a different ESC and it worked, then I soldered a different motor to the Reventon Pro and that motor wouldn't turn either. So its obviously the ESC. I like the ESC, but its obviously had something wrong with it since I bought it brand new a month ago. Hopefully I get some Warranty help, but in the mean time I need something to race with, so I guess Im stuck using a sh!tty Viper for a few weeks.