E-Savage Bashing
For the first time since I got it, I came back from a bit of bashing without anything broken, it was all working just as perfectly as when I took it out.
So all the hard work rebuilding shocks, fixing steering, fitting new bumpers, rewiring it, upgrading to 14cells was all worthwhile, it was a blast.
Nothing to do on it (except perhaps a UBEC replacement…) apart from use it until I want to upgrade to brushless. Oh, I do need to look at the mounting for the two extra cells, but apart from that.
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Smokin’
I wrote a post earlier about the virtues of UBECs.
But, I shalln’t publish it as I’ve just fried mine the 2nd time I turned it on…
It worked on 12 cells, but poof, smoke, smell, broken on 14 cells…
It’s supposed to handle 15 cells, I’ve asked for a refund from the HK ebayer…
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Sandbagger…
I embarrassingly won the mini B final last night at DMCRC. I was off the pace in qualifying, and I’m blaming LiPo, I’m sure in a Tamiya M03 they are slower than a decent set of NiMhs.
And I’ve got decent NiMh stick packs anyway, so sorry, it’s been nice, but LiPo in mini aint for me, I need to be in the A dammit!
An in-car video of the B final filmed with a camstick.
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HPI E-Savage Waterproofing
Following a very wet bashing day the other day, and cleaning it off with the garden hose I thought I should waterproof it a bit.
Posted a video showing what I did.
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Schoolboy Error…
If you’re gonna mess about with motors at midnight, remember to test them afterwards…
I put my car down on the line for my first heat tonight, and it went backwards…
Turns out I’d soldered the wires on backwards. And they were too short to just swap the connectors over… Had to borrow a soldering iron and redo it…
