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advantages of dual
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wantAsummit
Quarry Creeper
An emaxx uses dual motors for extra torque to move such a heavy truck.
Sharkey
Rock Crawler
with the dual motors you get double the torque without sacrificing much top speed. the e-maxx needs that kind of power to move such a large beast.
what are you building???
what are you building???
im building an axial scx10 honcho. i plan on using the traxxas evx-2 esc and 2 titan 550 21t motors. I might hook up the 12t and see how long they last, lol. I just need advice on batterys cause i want to run 2 batterys. i am coming from nitro powered and am kinda new to this whole battery/motor/esc idea. any advice would be great guys.
I think you'll end up ripping the drive train apart, it really isn't made for that. This truck is a LOT smaller and lighter than an E-Maxx. I am running an E-Maxx tranny on my Xtrail with a Titan 12T, which is a losy motor, and it has no problems at all moving the truck, I had to gear it down because it was too unstable.
I recommed just going with a XL-5 with one Titan 12T and see what you get out of it. A better motor would be a 17T motor with bearing instead of bushings.
I thought about that aspect also after I thought about it. I plan on upgrading to a dig unit in the future when I upgrade the radio. The dig unit has stronger gearing in it, I would think that as long as I did not punch the throttle when it gets binded up that it should be ok. Although, knowing myself, I probably would rip the gearing out, managed to do that to the spur gear on the tmax 3.3 I have.
Sharkey
Rock Crawler
2 of those motors will be far too much on a scaler, its just too much power for that light of a truck, and a drivetrain thats designed for a 55 turn. run one of those motors, itll be far more than you need.
wantAsummit
Quarry Creeper
Since you already have the EVX-2, you can use that for a single motor application as well. Instead of running 2 battery packs, you will run one battery pack and a shorting plug. If it doesn't work the first time, swap the battery and the shorting plug. One combination works, the other way it will not turn on.
so I can run the evx2 with just one battery with no problem? I will do that but I still want to run dual batterys for a longer run time. I will hook. Up a the second motor as weel, just for a short run to see how well it will work and if its too strong.
hende
Rock Crawler
If you want to run two batteries and only one motor you can wire it up like a Summit, with all of the power going to one motor. Running two batteries on an EVX-2 really will not increase your run time, the batteries are wired in series to increase the voltage. What you can do is connect two batteries in parallel to just one ESC lead, as stated above, that would give you more run time. But, with a regular ESC and a 5000mha batter you'd get almost an hour of run time.
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