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RC teaches you many things on what and what not to do. Today, I learned what not to do so I am sharing with you so maybe you can avoid the same problem.
Grease the Flex cable all the way through the brass tube. Pictures show you what and where it got hot. a few runs ago, I saw that the grease I applied to the cable was "liquafying" near the Collet and spraying it on the inside of the canopy (this should have been my first observation on keeping grease there right?) so i decided after my last run I would leave this area dry...oh, that was a mistake.
Great run with the UL-1 today...got her up to 43 mph, had great excelleration through the corners and everything was running smooth. After 8 minutes of running, it came to a dead stop...thought I lost the prop (That kind of sound dead giveaway). Got My Spartan out to fish it back, as soon as I grabed it from the water, I saw white smoke that smelled like plastic buring. I for sure thought I blew the ESC but the smell was telling me it was something else....
After some investigation, I noticed that the plastic sleave was melted to the cable...this is what was smoking...That baby was runnin hot! I am lucky nothing else happened or I lost a prop... but I learned what not to do going forward.
Positive side of the run: New Batterys (45-90c) ran cool....95 degres F.
Funny Part of the day (And Scary): Lake I was running at has Cottin Mouth snakes. As I was bringing in the Spartan, one came out of the water right at me (I would say maybe 2 feet away from me...Holy Crap...I freaked out and ran backwards into a boulder the size of a small compact car and ended up on my ass...Guy driving by on the road saw the whole thing. he stopped and asked if I was ok...must have looked frickin funny from his view point...
Grease the Flex cable all the way through the brass tube. Pictures show you what and where it got hot. a few runs ago, I saw that the grease I applied to the cable was "liquafying" near the Collet and spraying it on the inside of the canopy (this should have been my first observation on keeping grease there right?) so i decided after my last run I would leave this area dry...oh, that was a mistake.
Great run with the UL-1 today...got her up to 43 mph, had great excelleration through the corners and everything was running smooth. After 8 minutes of running, it came to a dead stop...thought I lost the prop (That kind of sound dead giveaway). Got My Spartan out to fish it back, as soon as I grabed it from the water, I saw white smoke that smelled like plastic buring. I for sure thought I blew the ESC but the smell was telling me it was something else....
After some investigation, I noticed that the plastic sleave was melted to the cable...this is what was smoking...That baby was runnin hot! I am lucky nothing else happened or I lost a prop... but I learned what not to do going forward.
Positive side of the run: New Batterys (45-90c) ran cool....95 degres F.
Funny Part of the day (And Scary): Lake I was running at has Cottin Mouth snakes. As I was bringing in the Spartan, one came out of the water right at me (I would say maybe 2 feet away from me...Holy Crap...I freaked out and ran backwards into a boulder the size of a small compact car and ended up on my ass...Guy driving by on the road saw the whole thing. he stopped and asked if I was ok...must have looked frickin funny from his view point...
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