Roger H

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From the sounds of it they have
Most stuff instock and trying to catch up with repairs and building new ones for shipment. I sent mine back last month litterally nothing left of it and have a new one on the way. So they must just be really behind with assembly.

Patrick Karp

i have a losi TEN 1/10 short course truck and it keeps cutting out. Like if i hit a pipe on the track or hit a jump sometimes it will cut out and ESC will restart. It will sit there for 10 sec and start going again. I would be running top 3 in a race and loose my position cause of this!!

Im running the Tekin RX8 with the tekin 4600kv sensored motor, spectrum s6030 servo and spectrum sr300 reciever with one reedy 25c 7.4v 5000mah battery

Another problem is battery life. I cant finish a 10 min race without it running out of battery... any suggestions on better battery's or other solutions

Thanks for the help!!!

rcgod

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U probably need a glitch buster capacitor on the receiver or external bec with that combo. Take a look at the smc or promatch 7200 batteries.

Patrick Karp

In already running an external BEC and it seems to not help... maybe i need a bigger battery with bigger capacity.. right now im running 25c.

thanks!

mkiiina

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2 items. 1 the spektrum servos are pretty power hungry and in my experience have caused some brown out issues. the other is your battery with that motor is a little on weak side for longer sct races.

I had a similar issue when I left my steering end points at 100% and the throw of the servo was bottoming out. This caused my RX8 to brown out due to power draw. Setting my end points fixed it.

A glitch buster may help but it can be a band-aid, a bec can help if you keep having brown-outs.

mkiiina

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double post.

Patrick Karp

so do you recommend to change servos? mabey its my reciever.. it only supports up too 6v

and about the battery what do you recommend for longer run time?

agarabaghi

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i dont think it is your battery. im pretty sure you need to set the bec voltage through castle link...

nthunberg89

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Amiain is saying 5/15/13, im sorry but i think i may have to buy a different esc. Really sucks

nthunberg89

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Rather than waiting a whole month for the heat sinks why dont you just hire a local company to get it done faster?

nthunberg89

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i also saw that tower said the combos wil be back late april, is this true?

mkiiina

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6000mah would be good and a higher C rating 40c would be the min.

Try adjusting your steering end points first and see if that helps.

nthunberg89

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If the combos will be back before the end of the month then I will wait for it.

Patrick Karp

okay thanks ill make sure to try that and buying new battery's soon so ill try ones higher than 40c! any recommendations on cells? 2cell or 3cell for short course?

fq06

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With a low amp draw setup like a 1/10 buggy or stadium truck you may not see these issues. But you get into a high amp draw heavy truck with a beast of a motor and you may have problems with the sr300.
Couple the spectrum servo with the sr300 receiver and you (as many others have) will get brownouts.

The RX8 has one of the best bec's in it but you have to get that through the sr300 to your servo. I think there lies your problem.
A buddy of mine with the rtr scte was running the low end spectrum radio that came with it (and accompanying sr300) and had nothing but problems at our indoor track. He changed the rx to the 3100(?) and that reduced the brownouts but not eliminated them. Shortly after got a Airtronics radio and problem solved.

No external bec, not a different servo (he's running savox, from what I can tell the same servo as the spectrum) and no brownouts. Only changed the tx/rx.

For lipo pack trying to make 10 min with a scte and 4 pole without voltage sag near the end of the run, at least 6500 60c. The smc 7200 70c suggested above is the best bang for the buck in lipo's right now IMO. If you have a lighter setup like Durango or sc10 4x or whatever you can get away with less.
But that setup even with a 6500 you will feel a loss of power nearing the end of your 10 min run.

And your sucking the life out of the pack running it to cutoff where the 7200 has juice in the tank for 12+ minutes... maybe even 15. I get a solid 10 out of mine in a 6.7lb SCT conversion truck with no lack of power to make the triple.