Axial SCX10 build - My first kit.

[daltrey]

I like it. Looks a lot like mine, ha

http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/axial...t-build**.html


You are suppose to cut a small round hole through the back window and the piece sticking out from the cage attaches to your spare tire mount with a body clip. Or else your spare tire is going to be bouncing around and it will probably break the mount. I used a body reamer.

[6sharky9]

Looks good

[electricrc68]

Originally Posted by daltrey

I like it. Looks a lot like mine, ha

http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/axial...t-build**.html


You are suppose to cut a small round hole through the back window and the piece sticking out from the cage attaches to your spare tire mount with a body clip. Or else your spare tire is going to be bouncing around and it will probably break the mount. I used a body reamer.

Ah okay thanks I see! I'll do that some time today. Mine does look a lot like yours lol!!! I think all black looks the best...just my opinion. Your body looks a lot better "built" than mine. I guess you have a lot more experience cutting, painting, and applying decals. Yours looks really nice!

Originally Posted by 6sharky9

Looks good

Thanks!


I just got out and ran it around the backyard in the rain, and it goes over everything! I'm surprised...its like a monster truck that actually looks good! It was crawling over leaves, dead roots, rocks, divots, etc. Looks like its gonna be a fun truck. Oh one question about something I noticed when driving it. When I give it full throttle, it goes only about as fast as someone who is speed walking. Is this is normal with a 27T motor? Of course, I am not looking for insane speed at all from this truck because its not meant for it, I'm just curious since I'm used to speedy rc cars.

[electricrc68]

Something bizarre just happened with my car. I took it out in the rain again since there was now a big collection of water, so I decided to ford through it slowly, and it got through fine. Well as I was turning back around, I noticed that smoke started coming out the side of the car. Everything is waterproofed, but I still got worried, turned it off, and brought it in. Upon inspection, nothing looks burnt...I don't notice anything on the ESC, Motor, or servo. The weird part is, everything still works perfectly fine! I'm a little confused. Anyone ever have this happen before? It still smells like burnt electronics, but works fine...

[6sharky9]

Originally Posted by electricrc68

Ah okay thanks I see! I'll do that some time today. Mine does look a lot like yours lol!!! I think all black looks the best...just my opinion. Your body looks a lot better "built" than mine. I guess you have a lot more experience cutting, painting, and applying decals. Yours looks really nice!



Thanks!


I just got out and ran it around the backyard in the rain, and it goes over everything! I'm surprised...its like a monster truck that actually looks good! It was crawling over leaves, dead roots, rocks, divots, etc. Looks like its gonna be a fun truck. Oh one question about something I noticed when driving it. When I give it full throttle, it goes only about as fast as someone who is speed walking. Is this is normal with a 27T motor? Of course, I am not looking for insane speed at all from this truck because its not meant for it, I'm just curious since I'm used to speedy rc cars.

Its not going to be a speed demon like race cars or fast bashers..Going with the 16T slowed it down a bit over what a 20T would've been.

Only way to get more speed with the 2s is gearing up but you really want the trade off of control over speed..Im gearing down even more to take away speed...trail trucks aren't supposed to be crazy fast.

2 options are a 3s battery which will add a bit of speed or go to a sensored brushless system..Mixing those 2 will give you amazing speed but not so great on the stock drive line

When you crawl you barely walk at all till you the truck gets ahead a little ways..Dont worry about the overall speed..Control is more important and you should have good wheel speed to get you up some hills like it is...Way more than you would've had with a 35T on a 2s battery..And if you ran a 3s battery it would be what you have now speed wise with a 35T but faster with the 27T and a 3s..but again possible driveline reliability issue.

[6sharky9]

Originally Posted by electricrc68

Something bizarre just happened with my car. I took it out in the rain again since there was now a big collection of water, so I decided to ford through it slowly, and it got through fine. Well as I was turning back around, I noticed that smoke started coming out the side of the car. Everything is waterproofed, but I still got worried, turned it off, and brought it in. Upon inspection, nothing looks burnt...I don't notice anything on the ESC, Motor, or servo. The weird part is, everything still works perfectly fine! I'm a little confused. Anyone ever have this happen before? It still smells like burnt electronics, but works fine...

Im not waterproof at all and run through some water just above the axles and haven't had any smoking issues at all...Is the burnt smell coming off the motor or off the esc?

[electricrc68]

Originally Posted by 6sharky9

Its not going to be a speed demon like race cars or fast bashers..Going with the 16T slowed it down a bit over what a 20T would've been.

Only way to get more speed with the 2s is gearing up but you really want the trade off of control over speed..Im gearing down even more to take away speed...trail trucks aren't supposed to be crazy fast.

2 options are a 3s battery which will add a bit of speed or go to a sensored brushless system..Mixing those 2 will give you amazing speed but not so great on the stock drive line

When you crawl you barely walk at all till you the truck gets ahead a little ways..Dont worry about the overall speed..Control is more important and you should have good wheel speed to get you up some hills like it is...Way more than you would've had with a 35T on a 2s battery..And if you ran a 3s battery it would be what you have now speed wise with a 35T but faster with the 27T and a 3s..but again possible driveline reliability issue.

Thanks! Yep I'm aware...I'm not looking for speed. I was just curious.

Originally Posted by 6sharky9

Im not waterproof at all and run through some water just above the axles and haven't had any smoking issues at all...Is the burnt smell coming off the motor or off the esc?

Hmm thats odd. I think its coming more from the motor than the ESC. I'm going to go out and avoid as much water as possible and see what happens this time....I hope everything works okay. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that I didn't properly "break in" the motor?

[6sharky9]

Originally Posted by electricrc68

Thanks! Yep I'm aware...I'm not looking for speed. I was just curious.


Hmm thats odd. I think its coming more from the motor than the ESC. I'm going to go out and avoid as much water as possible and see what happens this time....I hope everything works okay. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that I didn't properly "break in" the motor?

You should able to go right from the get go with a brushed motor..Im not seeing how even if you didn't break it in it would start burning up..If it was hot for some reason I might could see where you had some steam coming off the motor but the burnt smell im not sure of..you can completely submerge a brushed motor and not burn it up...Check you don't have any frayed wires touching something metal and just drive it..If it does burn up you have a warranty with it im sure..First time ive heard of a HH motor with a problem on here..It can happen though to the best of them...

Check that your motor connections aren't touching the frame somehow where it gets soldered onto the terminals on the back of the motor..You can sometimes have it positioned where a terminal might hit someplace on the frame..theres 2 sets of holes to mount the motor with..you want the holes that bring the motor terminals farthest away from the frame.

[electricrc68]

Originally Posted by 6sharky9

You should able to go right from the get go with a brushed motor..Im not seeing how even if you didn't break it in it would start burning up..If it was hot for some reason I might could see where you had some steam coming off the motor but the burnt smell im not sure of..you can completely submerge a brushed motor and not burn it up...Check you don't have any frayed wires touching something metal and just drive it..If it does burn up you have a warranty with it im sure..First time ive heard of a HH motor with a problem on here..It can happen though to the best of them...

Check that your motor connections aren't touching the frame somehow where it gets soldered onto the terminals on the back of the motor..You can sometimes have it positioned where a terminal might hit someplace on the frame..theres 2 sets of holes to mount the motor with..you want the holes that bring the motor terminals farthest away from the frame.

Thanks! I'll check all that once its dried off. I used it again outside, and decided to take it through some water again, and its doing perfectly fine. I didn't notice any smoke, although it does still smell burned. Works like new though which is odd. I'll check what it was you said, and then get back with what I found. HH motors must be pretty robust!

[chevyjlewis]

just have fun and remember if you crash it it isn't like crashing that ember 2

[electricrc68]

Originally Posted by chevyjlewis

just have fun and remember if you crash it it isn't like crashing that ember 2

Yeah thats true for sure! The Ember 2 doesn't respond well to crashes.




I checked the motor, and it doesn't seem to be touching any metal anywhere...there also doesn't seem to be any frayed wires touching any metal. The one thing I did notice is that the ESC falls off. Whats the best way to get that mounted? Double sided tape isn't cutting it...

[6sharky9]

Originally Posted by electricrc68

Thanks! I'll check all that once its dried off. I used it again outside, and decided to take it through some water again, and its doing perfectly fine. I didn't notice any smoke, although it does still smell burned. Works like new though which is odd. I'll check what it was you said, and then get back with what I found. HH motors must be pretty robust!

Some break brushes in while submerging them in a glass of water with low voltage..You can find that on youtube.

[6sharky9]

Originally Posted by electricrc68

Yeah thats true for sure! The Ember 2 doesn't respond well to crashes.




I checked the motor, and it doesn't seem to be touching any metal anywhere...there also doesn't seem to be any frayed wires touching any metal. The one thing I did notice is that the ESC falls off. Whats the best way to get that mounted? Double sided tape isn't cutting it...

Maybe waterproof double sided tape?..lol

might can try velcro

[electricrc68]

Originally Posted by 6sharky9

Some break brushes in while submerging them in a glass of water with low voltage..You can find that on youtube.

Yep I've searched that up before. Just odd since this is the first motor its happened to which still runs! Usually they just stop working after that.

Originally Posted by 6sharky9

Maybe waterproof double sided tape?..lol

might can try velcro

Lol I wish they made some....or do they?


Velcro sounds like a good idea. I can give that a shot...sounds like it should work.

[6sharky9]

search "waterproof double sided tape" and see what comes up..lol

Velcro is probably cheaper..can get that at the dollar store more than likely...Iuse it to hold my batteries in..working good so far.

[electricrc68]

Originally Posted by 6sharky9

search "waterproof double sided tape" and see what comes up..lol

Velcro is probably cheaper..can get that at the dollar store more than likely...Iuse it to hold my batteries in..working good so far.

Wow...it actually exists!

I'll probably use velcro as you said. Seems like a better solution. Time to tidy up some wires.

[Airdet]

I have my esc mounted to an aluminum plate mounted to a slider using this stuff, works great so far.

Parma PSE Pro Servo Tape 1"x36" Roll [PAR8044] | Radios & Accessories - A Main Hobbies

[electricrc68]

Originally Posted by Airdet

I have my esc mounted to an aluminum plate mounted to a slider using this stuff, works great so far.

Parma PSE Pro Servo Tape 1"x36" Roll [PAR8044] | Radios & Accessories - A Main Hobbies

Do you have a picture of your setup? It sounds a lot better than what axial says out of the manual.

[Airdet]

Hope this works, first time trying to post pics

[electricrc68]

Originally Posted by Airdet

Hope this works, first time trying to post pics

Yep, it worked! Looks good! Seems like it stays in place a lot better than the stock location.