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03-08-2019, 03:36 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Mar 2019 Location: Bay Area
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|  TRX4 Castle 1512 1800kv
I'm new to the hobby and crawling. Currently my setup is the following Defender wheelbase Mamba X Slate 1406 1900kv Slate 1406 3800kv First motor change was the slate 1406 3800kv and it was great no complains except it was too much wheel speed, got bored and changed to 1406 1900kv The 1406 1900kv is perfect and great... but its time to change things up a bit I'm bored again I just picked up a castle 1512 1800kv and going to install it on the rig tonight, I have searched around and was not able to find anyone running a 1512... Does anyone have any input on the castle 1512 sensored on the TRX4? Regards Last edited by MadRockCrawler; 03-10-2019 at 04:13 PM. Reason: fixed typo |
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03-08-2019, 04:53 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Michigan
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| Re: TRX4 Castle 1512 1800kv
They are better quality than the slate. That's all I know.
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03-08-2019, 09:25 PM
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| Re: TRX4 Castle 1512 1800kv
Its about to go down...    Last edited by MadRockCrawler; 03-08-2019 at 09:28 PM. |
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03-10-2019, 02:27 PM
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| Re: TRX4 Castle 1512 1800kv
Post install update.... wowwwwwww.... I could not be any happier..... it big its loud and has torque for days.... I ran in 2s, 4s and 6s I noticed that on 6s the low speed engagement is nice and easy to engage I'm running 11t/45t going down to 9t but it will require me to trimm the 5mm motor shaft,, not ready to do that yet.... but I'm sure I'll get bored and chop it sometime... but for now is time to enjoy the upgrades... also upgrade the Servo to Protek 370tbl I was running savox SA-1230 great servo but is not water proof... due to the new servo upgrade I had to add another circuit to the setup to support 7.4v where before I had 6v servo and light setup. Here is the current specs: Defender trx4 proline body proline cage traxxas trx4 lift kit mamba x protek 370TBL seeting servo castle 1512 1800kv ... previous motor setups castle 3800kv slate and 1800kv slate aluminum motor mount all metal transmission 11t 5mm/45t metal driveshafts 3 circuits, circuit 1: esc (with large capacitors) powers receiver, portals and transmission servos at 6v, circuit 2: castle bec 2.0 powers light setup at 6v, circuit 3: castle bec 2.0 powers steering servo at 7.4v and this circuit has large capacitor custom light setup 6s setup Protek 3600 3s 100c x2 4s setup Gens Ace 2200 2s 50c x2 proline Swampers 1.9 predator compound Last edited by MadRockCrawler; 03-10-2019 at 02:30 PM. Reason: added tires |
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03-10-2019, 02:28 PM
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| Re: TRX4 Castle 1512 1800kv
Here is pics of the setup https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B0iJtdOXmJ6Sh1J |
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03-10-2019, 04:03 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Feb 2017 Location: My mothers basement
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| Re: TRX4 Castle 1512 1800kv
With that much power I would try for a bigger spur before a smaller pinion. Edit: Oh its a trx4. Guess you can't.
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03-10-2019, 04:09 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Mar 2019 Location: Bay Area
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| Re: TRX4 Castle 1512 1800kv
I think I could accomplish the same by going with smaller 9t pinion vs 11t... or am I missing something? I'm new to the hobby dont know much.... edit: Does it really need more low end?  Last edited by MadRockCrawler; 03-10-2019 at 04:16 PM. |
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03-10-2019, 07:03 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Feb 2017 Location: My mothers basement
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| Re: TRX4 Castle 1512 1800kv
It only needs lower gears if the motor or esc is getting hot.
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