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My review, Integy lathe motor/mag mayhem/ Multiplex 600.

Highmark

Highmark

I wanna be Dave
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Location
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Test bed:

The "Ubber mule" running TLT axles and a stampede tranny with a 87t spor and 11t pinion gear.

Test Place
Green River in Rochester Kentucky, consists of sandrock,smooth river rock and some other various smooth stones.

Lathe
I gotta say, I am not fond in the least of this motor. It gives you the feeling of driveing on a dead battery throughout the run. The low RPM's are the main reason behind this. It does however get killer runtimes (I ran for the better part of the day on a GP3300 pack) and makes almost no noise. It is also shorter then a normal 540can motor so it would be perfect for say a clod if you didnt want to run 9t pinions. If I owned a clod or a pajero I would recomend one but for most shaftys where gear reduction isnt a problem and you can have RPM and tourqe I wouldn't run one.

Mag Mayhem
A good over all motor, gives out plenty of power and pretty decent runtimes. It is very dependable and cheap. I really dont recomend it for clods with tight link set-ups because the can is longer then a 540 motor but it is very effective in most situations. If you can't decide on what motor meats your needs try this or.....

Multiplex 600
It's 9 bucks! And it throughs out some killer power on 12 cells (Brad striped out the out drives on his pede in 3 minutes at green river) and does pretty well on 6. Proforms a bit like a mag mayhem but not.I dont have alot of time on this motor so the best thing I can recomend is that you buy it-I mean think about it, 9 bucks 8O

Hope that helps out with the hole "wut motor" question.
 
Any opinion on the Mabuchi 540 motor? In comparison I mean.

(I went from a reverse Mag with 9 tooth, to 1 Mabuchi 540 with 3.8:1 and 15 tooth.)
 
Good review. My 600 is the torquiest motor I've ever tried. I still have to try lathe motors and mag mayhems though. I highly recommend them, especially for the price.
 
Any opinion on the Mabuchi 540 motor? In comparison I mean.

(I went from a reverse Mag with 9 tooth, to 1 Mabuchi 540 with 3.8:1 and 15 tooth.)
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In all honesty I haven't tried one yet in the Mule, I ran them in some of my tamiya trucks and they did well but that's about it in terms of my experience with them. I have however seen CSR's TXT-1 that uses one and a gear reduction, seemed to have all the tourqe and runtime it needed and some good wheelspeed too. I was really impressed with it.

Good review. My 600 is the torquiest motor I've ever tried. I still have to try lathe motors and mag mayhems though. I highly recommend them, especially for the price.
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Thank you for the second opinion. They are deffinately worth the money if your on the budget :D
 
Try more cells on the lathe motor. Now. Go do it. :flipoff:

Seriously. I would NOT run lathe motors on 7.2V, its way too sluggish for me. on 14.4V I will never run anything else. Yes its on a clod, but I think you'll think differently of them when you give them the voltage they were intended for ;)
 
I run my RS550SH (Cordless drill motor) on at least 8.4v and more usually 9.6v. It will take upto 14.4.

I think the RS550 is similar to the lathe motor, ie low rpm and high torque.

I get over an hours run time from a 2000 NiCD pack using a Super Rooster, RS550, 8.4v and 3.5:1 inline gear reduction unit in my shaft driven truck.

The mag meyhems are great motors and I run them in alot of my 'faster' trucks although in my crawler they only give me 20mins runtime from that same 2000 NiCD and they don't have so much torque.

I have a steep slope made up of loose earth in our garden and it needs low revs and high torque to pull the vehicle up on tickover to avoid wheelspin. The cordless drill motor pulls the truck up with no loss of traction whereas the meyhems generally don't have quite enough, however, the meyhems have replaceable brushes whereas the cordless drill motor doesn't so is disposable.

In the UK a meyhem can cost as much as £40 but the RS550SH motors are about £10.
 
I think for a fair comparison the lathe motors need to be geared up (bigger pinion) compared to what you'd run on a mag mayhem or about anyother motor.

They have huge torque, but no rpm so the top speed will suffer.


That's the reason they work so awsome in a clod, cause the clod is overgeared...
 
I think you need to run them with their intended voltage, which is 12V. They just say they will run great for a lathe on 7.2V, but they are intended for 12V (aka Car Battery)
 
Yeah I might have been running the wronge set-up for the lathe motor. I more or less threw it in with a gearing set-up that I've ound to be perfect for most of the motors I've tried. I'm beeting Dave is right when he said they come to life on 12v :D
 
Highmark said:
Yeah I might have been running the wronge set-up for the lathe motor. I more or less threw it in with a gearing set-up that I've ound to be perfect for most of the motors I've tried. I'm beeting Dave is right when he said they come to life on 12v :D
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I don't know if you've seen the vid of my truck running..

Its 20# and gets up and GOES!!! :twisted: Only 50:1~ though. Not quite slow enough, I'd say 75:1~ would be ideal.
 
Erm Dave, why haven't I seen the vid of your truck running? :? I've watched pretty much every vid on the site 8O I'll have to check it out tommarro.

Yeah just ran the lathe motor in my buggy minus the GD-600 gear reduction and it flys, it's amazing how quite these things are!.

Destroyer I'll get some measurements tonight-
 
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