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11-29-2009, 04:34 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Winnemucca
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|  Problem with my traxxas velineon
It's been doing it for quite awhile but seems to be getting worse- if I give it full throttle for more than a couple seconds it causes the esc to start blinking red and only run on half power. I stop & reset the esc & try to be more careful with the throttle so it won't do it again. but then it does it again  . Is the motor drawing too many amps for some reason or is the battery getting old/bad? If so how can I tell? It's a maxamps 3 cell 5000 hv, about 3 years old btw.
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11-29-2009, 04:48 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: In West Monroe,LA...yes,where Duck Dynasty is filmed
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make sure youre setting to lipo and not nimh also set your radio to 50/50 on trigger
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11-29-2009, 05:24 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: usa
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try a diffrent battery, sounds like it is amp cutting because it cant draw what it needs (thats how you kill esc's) what type of batter are you useing what mah, discharge, and how many cycles do you have on it? |
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11-29-2009, 07:01 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: We-Go, Chi-Town, Ill
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Yea, it sounds like the battery is activating the LiPo cut off too soon.
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12-02-2009, 08:38 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Winnemucca
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That's what I was thinking is it's the battery. It's a maxamps battery but it might be 3 years old now that I think about it. I wish I could just try another battery but I don't have another big one just my little 1100 crawler batteries. I really like the little hyperion 35c lipos I've been using on the crawler. I'll look & see how much a 4 or 5000 one of those would cost. A 3000 35c would flow as much juice as my old 5000 20c maxamps wouldn't it?
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12-03-2009, 10:35 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Sep 2004
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what color is the light on the esc when its in natural with a fully charged pack ? also what type of battery you running ? nimh or lipo ?
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12-04-2009, 11:29 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Winnemucca
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esc light is solid green when first turned on. Battery is a 5000 mah 3s maxamp lipo 20c I believe. It's almost 3 years old now I think...
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