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10-07-2009, 09:12 PM
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| SCALE PERFORMANCE PARTS   Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Cedar Park
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|  Waterproof box / heat dissipation
I decided to put all my scaler electronics in a box to waterproof them. They are all wedged in fairly tight and I started wondering if heat dissipation will be an issue? I have a sidewinder, CC BEC, RX and winch controller all in there. Thoughts? |
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07-21-2010, 04:48 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Hayesville
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I know this is old but I was searching and found the same question with no answer. Does anyone run a sidewinder in a waterproof box? Do you have a problem with overheating. Mine would stop for 5mins or so a couple of times today till I took off the box cover. What are some of the secrets to keeping it in the waterproof box? |
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07-21-2010, 05:02 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Phelan
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07-21-2010, 09:25 PM
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| SCALE PERFORMANCE PARTS Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Cedar Park
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I've been running it that way for a long time and to date, had no issues. I will say though that I don't go WOT much in the scaler so it's not building much heat. |
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07-22-2010, 08:42 PM
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| Rock Crawler   Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Lititz
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I have an fxr, rx, winch controller, and two bec's in a waterproof box. Running a 45t Tekin motor on 3s.The rig weighs 10 lbs. During normal running I have no problems, but if I run it hard in deep water it will shut down. I really like the compactness and simplicity of having everything in one box, but there is definitely an issue with heat saturation. For right now I plan to live with it, but a better option would be to waterproof the board and leave the speed control out of the box to dissipate heat. |
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07-23-2010, 02:18 AM
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| Rock Crawler  Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: In the office, working on RC Projects!
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Anybody try a watercooling system? The new vxl for the traxxas boat has a watercooled system, wondering if someone can figure out how to adapt that to a scaler box. If so, that would be sweet.
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07-23-2010, 01:03 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Hayesville
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07-23-2010, 01:08 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Castle Rock, WA
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Here is page with some good info on waterproofing electronics. A boat website but still can do boards the same way. It's from their "Tips/Info" page. http://www.offshoreelectrics.com/inf...erproof-rx.php |
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