Stock Spartan Hit 50.7 MPH today...

[shctexas]

Yep, hence my "calling in the troops". He did make an appearance at T*****s today, though brief.

[GeoVW72]

has anyone noticed, Peter has not returned to these forums lately

Yea, can of worms too deep for you Peter?

Anyone else get the feeling that he is acting the same as Nitro Chicken, "Please stop bashing" and "we're evaluating all your input"
we should be getting info/answers, but so far we got zip

Anyway, Shaun78;
The motor and esc are toast, 6~8 min is around where the system melts down in a series cooling loop.
Same thing happened to me, motor gets too hot and dead shorts one of the channels on the esc.
Not sure how/when you temped it, but with mine the motor went up 30*f after I pulled the boat out and temped it the first time.

A series cooling loop(going from esc into the motor) only serves to compound the inherent issues with the power system.
Motor heat=amp draw
Amp draw=esc heat
The esc heat is transmitted to the motor and the cycle compounds itself until it melts down.
A parallel loop with a Y feeding the esc and motor directly has been the only way that has worked for me, an extra outlet doesn't hurt either

[Brushless55]

Yea, can of worms too deep for you Peter?

Anyone else get the feeling that he is acting the same as Nitro Chicken, "Please stop bashing" and "we're evaluating all your input"we should be getting info/answers, but so far we got zip

hmmmm

[Panama Jack]

Man I give props to Peter for actually talking about the problems openly here on this forum, but traxxas has really left every man for him self on this.

After I made am my cooling mods for the spartan I was actually pritty happy with the boat, but I only got to run it around 20 times on 6S before the ESC quit. I even have the ESC on video when Tested it outside the boat and it started smoking, am going to upload it to you tube so every one can see it, including those hidden Traxxas spy's here on this forum.

[Brushless55]

Bro if I we you I would read through and see just what it was that Peter said openly

[Shaun78]

my motor temp was in the 140's and the esc was under 100. Never went into thermo mode, The motor temp at 140's isnt hot. Maybe the motor is no good and the spped controller is ok but I have no idea how to check the motor. The rotor color was uneven and there was a metal strip on the rotor but i have no idea

[shctexas]

Thats what fried my motor. It never went into thermal...which was caused by the rubber cooling jacket leaking......and on and on.

[Panama Jack]

Here is my video of my ESC.

I was driving the boat on 6S, the boat just stoped in the middle of the lake, when I got the boat back the motor would just move the prop side to side slowly. I took it home and when I plugged the stock batteries back in they heated up fast and the ESC burnt.

This ones for you (Peter)

http://www.youtube.com/user/epardo1025?feature=mhum#p/u

[millzee]

I noticed when you were showing the over heated batteries that one of the solder of the ec5 was loose, did this become unsoldered due to the heat just in that short time?

[JPriami]

Can you smell what tha spartan is cooking!



I think it stinks a little

[Humphrey]

Dont let that stuffed shirt peter come over here and try to bye time. come on guys! keep signing up with new names to troll on the t*****s NAZI (thanks jpriami!) forum! Once they no we are a huge anti t*****s h8 site the will be to scared to come here and spy. replace all your pictures there with nasty pics too! they lied about everything on purpus they just wanted to make a quik buk at our xpense and now they want to bury r results and all the truth we post here!!! if it was not for ose t*****s wood not no the albatross has any issues or that we have already solved them all! the t*****s forum would only have nice posts. GeoVW72 you r the best! you act all caring and concernd on the t*****s forum and post the truth here!!! i luv this forum!!!

[shctexas]

Here is my video of my ESC.

I was driving the boat on 6S, the boat just stoped in the middle of the lake, when I got the boat back the motor would just move the prop side to side slowly. I took it home and when I plugged the stock batteries back in they heated up fast and the ESC burnt.

This ones for you (Peter)


http://www.youtube.com/user/epardo1025?feature=mhum#p/u

Nope, nothing to see here people. Move along. Another "toast " product courtesy of T*****s!

[Brushless55]

I think I know why Tower has not Spartans in stock
maybe traxxas has asked for the motors and speed controls out of them to ship to people who have burnt theirs up???

[Shaun78]

LOL, I needed a laugh. I have owned my boat for over a month but actually had good working parts for about 1.5 weeks.

[Diesel6401]

Here is my video of my ESC.

I was driving the boat on 6S, the boat just stoped in the middle of the lake, when I got the boat back the motor would just move the prop side to side slowly. I took it home and when I plugged the stock batteries back in they heated up fast and the ESC burnt.

This ones for you (Peter)


http://www.youtube.com/user/epardo1025?feature=mhum#p/u

I see you changed to ec5 connectors. I think I read somewhere that Traxxas won't warranty your esc if you change the connectors on it.