pstill9302
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So I just recently did some upgrades. Put one of the 4282 hobbystar v2 motors on that they've had on sale, $40 so I figured what the hell. Improvement was noticeable, more power and geared up to keep speed. Sketchy going full throttle on the street now, but everything normal for about a week. Then my DS3235 pro crapped out (upper bearing seized and burnt the motor out.) Notctied my top oring was gone so crap made it's way in. Went thru two servo swap outs/amazon returns with DS3235 normal and pro, neither one would return to center properly. So went with the sincecam brushless 35kg-cm. Installed last night and everything looked good. Went to do some off roading in the field at lunch today and car was not responding properly in the parking lot (cutting out, steering kind of floating center point, etc.) Tx wasn't flashing blue on/off like low batteries but changed batteries in the dumbox6 anyway and then it was slow flashing blue/light blue after that. There's no info I can find on what that means. Recalibrated and same thing. Figured I'd wait to rebind, recal tx/rx/esc once I got home since it was acting weird. Did all that once home and then it stopped flashing, seemed fine. Running around on the street in front of the house, not too hard to test things out, seemed better but not quite right. And it happened. Full throttle out of nowhere from at least 30 yds away into the neighbor's Yukon.
So now I have a severly bent chassis, front center dogbone, broken battery tray, ripped apart 3drc wing mount, rebuild time. Luckily I hit pretty square so I think that's all so far.
Anyone else heard of weird runaways with the X6, is there anyway the motor or servo swap could have caused something weird? I changed out the stock spektrum rx/tx back when I got the car a few years back because it had the reputation of such things. Scary as hell watching it just take off w/o being able to do anything. It hit hard, really hard. Would've really hurt someone walking their dog, or me. Not too sure about replacing w/dumbo again, but going to replace regardless as I don't trust it at all now. Still running the stock blx 185 esc. I don't think that has/had anything to do with it but everything is under scrutiny now. Motor swap was ok, weird after chaging the servo, but I can't see how that would've done anything. Has to be tx/rx...
Any thoughts welcome. S*(tty day for the old talion and an old guy like me.
So now I have a severly bent chassis, front center dogbone, broken battery tray, ripped apart 3drc wing mount, rebuild time. Luckily I hit pretty square so I think that's all so far.
Anyone else heard of weird runaways with the X6, is there anyway the motor or servo swap could have caused something weird? I changed out the stock spektrum rx/tx back when I got the car a few years back because it had the reputation of such things. Scary as hell watching it just take off w/o being able to do anything. It hit hard, really hard. Would've really hurt someone walking their dog, or me. Not too sure about replacing w/dumbo again, but going to replace regardless as I don't trust it at all now. Still running the stock blx 185 esc. I don't think that has/had anything to do with it but everything is under scrutiny now. Motor swap was ok, weird after chaging the servo, but I can't see how that would've done anything. Has to be tx/rx...
Any thoughts welcome. S*(tty day for the old talion and an old guy like me.