Manda's (Amachan) RC Adventures
RC Truck Update
Does it work? Kind of…. The ESC tends to go into LiPo low voltage cut-off while running on the NiMh setting with a NiMh battery. I think one of the soldering jobs I did on my bad day was not as good as I had hoped. So it may be getting a low voltage from that. Now it still should go into LiPo low voltage cut-off when running on the NiMh setting, but the entire programming of this ESC seems to be bust and it just uses whatever setting it pleases it I think. The ESC will need to be replaced, especially if I want to run a LiPo battery on it, this is most likely from the water damage it took from the swim it took early on in its life.
Is the suspension fixed, NOPE! The one shock that I was having problems with before I rebuild them was still not functioning well and seems to be leaking and lost a lot of oil by the feel of it. I adjusted the pre-load on the spring to compensate a bit, but I feel like these need to be replaced.
I can run it for now like this, although I will redo my soldering job, but then comes the question. Do I replace the broken parts and wait for the next ones that I may not be able to find replacements for to break or do I just hold on a bit longer and buy a new truck? I am leaning to buying a new one and it definitely will not be an FTX. I don’t think I will ever buy an FTX ever again.
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