The last time I drove my 1717 granaded at 127kmh after 5 seconds of full throttle and made the car stop very violently. The front drive shafts are now slightly twisted...
It happened 6 weeks ago and I now wonder how to protect my new 1717. (Next time I will buy a different motor.) EDIT: 1717 1260kv should be better for 8s bashing
What Castle told me: If the motor gets hot the epoxy gets soft and high rpm do the rest.
My motor never got over 54C° before so I guess I want to lower my RPMs in the first place. That day I made several >4seconds passes with around 46K motor rpm .
What I have done:
-Motor cutoff temperature to lowest 49C°
-Improved airflow cooling
-set timing to 0 degrees
How can I reduce the RPM while keep running my 8s batteries?
Should I gear up and reduce the max power output to physically limit it from spinning higher? At like 40k rpm.
Can you limit RPM via software?
It happened 6 weeks ago and I now wonder how to protect my new 1717. (Next time I will buy a different motor.) EDIT: 1717 1260kv should be better for 8s bashing
What Castle told me: If the motor gets hot the epoxy gets soft and high rpm do the rest.
My motor never got over 54C° before so I guess I want to lower my RPMs in the first place. That day I made several >4seconds passes with around 46K motor rpm .
What I have done:
-Motor cutoff temperature to lowest 49C°
-Improved airflow cooling
-set timing to 0 degrees
How can I reduce the RPM while keep running my 8s batteries?
Should I gear up and reduce the max power output to physically limit it from spinning higher? At like 40k rpm.
Can you limit RPM via software?
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