Email sent Chris

anyone?

The tracks and clubs vary allot from asphalt with 40m straights to Carpet with 20 metre straights been all round the houses with gearing but depending on the track I have found anything from 5.0 - 6.0 FDR works best

I just bought a xerun 120A v3 esc. I was wondering which terminals I need to solder the power capacitor to? The instructions are not too clear.

Solder them to the battery posts. + - respectively

thanks!

Hacker? Is that a clone?

For a start I'd say add 10 degrees to your boost timing and take 10 degrees off the turbo timing, the motor always seems to run cooler that way to me.

Your boost start RPM is seriously low, looking at the max motor RPM you're at full timing at 50% of your full speed, I'd say try about 4000rpm finishing at about 14000rpm. Conversely I'd be tempted to drop the turbo cut in RPM to 8-9000rpm.

Also I think changing boost set by throttle to "Yes" helps motor temps and stops the car taking off mid corner without you wanting it to.

Obviously these settings would need changing up or down when you alter the track size.

Where about in the UK are you?

Hi Dunc
as we spoke at WLRC
Put the start rpm up to 1500
End rpm 11000
turbo start 9000 or 10000
turbo by rpm

Works extremely well on smaller & mid size tracks.
haven't found anything that is perfect yet on larger tracks 30m+ straight

Ratio from 4 to 5.25 Corally Pro Red 21.5T

Agree with boost & turbo suggestion, that's virtually what I run.

4000 start does get the motor up and running, have tried around 3000 start but lower is better!

As I said I haven't run 21.5, and didn't get to WLRC this year, or since 2007 :-( (love it there).

Good to know my guestimate system is working well though :-)

Unfortunately settings not so good at WLRC!, stuck the 2.1 back in on race day, but that might have been mistake, only 2 rounds quali run due to weather.

It is on the larger tracks like WLRC that the V3 seems to struggle against the V2.1 with a 21.5T motor.

Have sent Dunc my settings

That's quite interesting.
The HPI Flux Pro speedo'd cars were extremely fast in the most part at the Mendip national.
Also before I got the new speedo the Flux Pro had a massive mid range advantage over me at Cotswolds. I think Frank Anderson said changing the speedo gave Ayrton 0.4s a lap at Cotswolds.

I think thats the difference - with 13.5 or 10.5 the V3 works extremely well on all size tracks, but the characteristics of the 21.5's seem to be different and most people running V3 in 21.5T have gone back to the V2.1.

It may be because we are little different to the rest of the world in running boosted 21.5 and the firmware has not been designed/updated for us yet

try flashing it again, or try to do it on or at another computer...heard sometimes it causes issues but when someone switches computers and reflashes the esc it worked the next time. IF your not getting any response from the ESC that would be the first thing i would check...