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Old 09-10-2008, 09:03 PM
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SD2006
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Originally Posted by Davidka
All of what you've posted indicates that your electric car is way overpowered, especially the last sentence. Try going down one cell on your battery or a couple steps on your motor.
I'm not sure you can set up an electric 1/8th scale buggy this way. Any brushless setup that has respectable top speed and doesn't overheat during a race will always have enough torque to cause huge wheel spin at low speeds. My RC8 will pull wheelies with a measly 3s battery and I've only got a 2200kV motor in it. It puts my MP777 (with its .28 "big block") to shame in the torque department. I think the only way to soften the power delivery of a brushless motor is to use some kind of smart control scheme that's integrated into the ESC.
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