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03-23-2007, 04:15 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: MOSS LANDING
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|  100% Waterproofed
I have talked to many crawlers and also an electrical engineer from the US ARMY and this is what I came up with.There is an electrical spray coating that is used by the Army on their circut boards to keep them protected. I sprayed a couple of layers on all my servo,esc,reciever boards. I was told just doing this will be waterproofed,but I wanted to be 100% sure that I am not going to spend $200.00 on new electronics cuz I wanted to take my rig in the creek.So I then filled all the servos with vaseline to ease my mind about them.As for the reciever and esc. I used 1.5 inch shrink tubing cut to length and sealed up the ends with hot glue.So there's a few ideas from a few people that should no doubt make your rig ok to dump in the water.And here's a couple of pics.     Now off to the rive I go  |
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03-23-2007, 05:03 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Thats a Good question
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sounds cool, But your ESC is gonna HATE you.
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03-23-2007, 05:07 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: ****, SL,UT
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 j/khow much does that spray stuff cost? | |
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03-23-2007, 06:07 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Thats a Good question
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03-23-2007, 06:38 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: watching jasoninaugusta's avatar
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That things gonna overheat just alittle.
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03-23-2007, 08:26 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: MOSS LANDING
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The protective spray is $17.00 / can. every time I take my truck out the esc never even gets clost to getting warm at all. so I guess time will tell if it does overheat. I'll keep you posted on that matter |
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03-24-2007, 10:17 AM
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| Sinking with the ship   Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: El Capitan...sole survivor and sinking fast
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moving to electrics forum in 3...2...1...
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03-24-2007, 01:42 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: bay area
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where can I pick one of these up? How was your river run?
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03-24-2007, 02:26 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: MOSS LANDING
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I never made it to the river cuz I was tsting to see if my ESC was going to get hot like other members said and broke my front wheel axle last night,,,,,bummer. The ESC seemed to do well though,like I said before time will tell with that.It is a tazer esc so it has a lifetime warranty!!.any ways try calling them and see if it can be shipped,if not I can get some for you. | |
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03-25-2007, 10:21 AM
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| Quarry Creeper  Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: The Great White North
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I'm gonna bet taking the ESC apart and spraying the circuit board with a coating will void your lifetime warranty.  |
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03-25-2007, 07:00 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: MOSS LANDING
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the LHS never even takes anything apart to look inside. I did run it for about 1.5 hours today and no problems at all. not even a little warm. Quote:
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