Originally Posted by
BigBadDogg
Drag brake.. well 1st off someone posted it goes into affect in neutral Throttle
well thats wrong .. drag brake on most esc goes into effect the instant the throttle is no going +.. the second u move your trigger towards neutral Th. it will engage....
This is completely inaccurate. If it were the case, that means once you go full throttle you cannot use less without the brakes engaging until you squeeze for more throttle again. It would be the equivalent to simultaniously being on the gas and brake pedal of your car. This is impossible in an electric motor. Drag brake only starts once your trigger is in a nuetral position.
Push brake is the opposite it applies a slight amount of throttle at neutral to assist if overcoming the motors natural parasitic drag.
Both push and drag brake also are only enganged when the motor is turning. At a dead stop, 0 RPMS, there is no power applied to the motor. So dont worry about draining you battery on the starting grid.
Also once the trigger is pushed into actuall braking, your set minimum brake percentage
engages.
Unless your running pan cars and/or oval most people use drag brakes. Very few of use have the finess required to give small amounts of brake to set a cars suspension for a turn. Drag brake helps do that for us.