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Hello all, I am getting back into the hobby after a bit of a hiatus. I am a total noob to brushless and damn I wish I had gotten one sooner. I have still have a Revo and jato 3.3 that are begging for conversions. But back to the kraton. To preface I have 2 HRB 5000mah 50c 6s batteries to run in this beast.
The first question I have concerns motor temp. I notice after one pack the motor is too hot to touch for more than a second. You can touch the esc heatsink all you want. I am running the stock gearing. The 1st run was mostly on the street and short cut grass, so nothing that I would consider high resistance surfaces. Is this normal running on 6s? I am going to get a heatsink/dual fan setup for it. But I feel like it shouldn't be running so hot to begin with and I don't think it would need a fan setup to get the temps down on the stock gearing. But I am new to brushless so I could be totally wrong.
The second question is regarding steering. On my second run I was on gravel and I noticed that occasionally the steering would just drop out. I can blip the throttle and it comes back, but not always. After that run I took the truck inside and I noticed that there was a piece of gravel wedged towards the front of the chassis, near the front bulkhead between the body of the servo and the servo saver "tower." I know the stock radio gear isn't the greatest and is on my list of upgrades. But it just seems very odd that a blip of the throttle will give me steering again. Could that piece of gravel have damaged the servo? I have an old futuba 3pm that I need to dig out of my closet. Once I find it I will swap out the stock gear for it to see if that changes anything. I just wanted some opinions from people who know these trucks better than I do.
Thanks,
Crash
Hello all, I am getting back into the hobby after a bit of a hiatus. I am a total noob to brushless and damn I wish I had gotten one sooner. I have still have a Revo and jato 3.3 that are begging for conversions. But back to the kraton. To preface I have 2 HRB 5000mah 50c 6s batteries to run in this beast.
The first question I have concerns motor temp. I notice after one pack the motor is too hot to touch for more than a second. You can touch the esc heatsink all you want. I am running the stock gearing. The 1st run was mostly on the street and short cut grass, so nothing that I would consider high resistance surfaces. Is this normal running on 6s? I am going to get a heatsink/dual fan setup for it. But I feel like it shouldn't be running so hot to begin with and I don't think it would need a fan setup to get the temps down on the stock gearing. But I am new to brushless so I could be totally wrong.
The second question is regarding steering. On my second run I was on gravel and I noticed that occasionally the steering would just drop out. I can blip the throttle and it comes back, but not always. After that run I took the truck inside and I noticed that there was a piece of gravel wedged towards the front of the chassis, near the front bulkhead between the body of the servo and the servo saver "tower." I know the stock radio gear isn't the greatest and is on my list of upgrades. But it just seems very odd that a blip of the throttle will give me steering again. Could that piece of gravel have damaged the servo? I have an old futuba 3pm that I need to dig out of my closet. Once I find it I will swap out the stock gear for it to see if that changes anything. I just wanted some opinions from people who know these trucks better than I do.
Thanks,
Crash
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