ERBE Upgrades

[quagman9000]

I think I want an entirely separate crawling system so I guess brushed is the way to go. The MMM can handle brushed motors right?

[87 GN]

idb so...........

[quagman9000]

this might be a dumb question but I couldn't find out what idb means. could you tell me?

Thanks

[87 GN]

I
Do
Belive


all good here is a few more, IDK all them either................hahahhaaaa

Terms:


BEC: Battery Eliminator Circuit

UBEC: Ultimate (or universal) Battery Eliminator Circuit

ESC: Electronic Speed Control

BL: Brushless

COG or CG: Center of Gravity. "Cog" could also mean motor cogging, but the letters are not usually all capitalized.

CD: Center Differential

MM: Mamba Max

MMM: Mamba Monster (Max)

MMP or MMPro: Mamba Max Pro

RPM: Revolutions per Minute or the RPM company

KV: RPM per volt motor constant

Y or Wye or Asterisk or Star: A brushless motor coil configuration. Looks like the letter Y.

D or Delta or Triangle: A brushless motor coil configuration. Looks like a triangle.

CC/CV: Refers to the Constant Current/Constant Voltage threshold for lipo charging.

CC: Castle Creations company.

LMT: Lehner Motoren Technik brand of brushless motor, commonly shortened to simply Lehner.

S, L, XL: Refers to the motor can length when talking about Feigao/Wanderer/Nemesis brushless motors.

S&T: Sky and Technology company - makes the Quark ESCs.

MGM: ESC brand.

AC: Alternating Current

DC: Direct Current

PWM: Pulse Width Modulation. Refers to the method ESCs use to send partial power to a motor. Highly efficient. Can also refer to the signal from a radio receiver to servos/speed controllers.

Rx: Receiver.

Tx: Transmitter.

RCM: RC Monster. Can refer to the main site, the forum site, or "the man" Mike.

LVC: Low Voltage Cut-off device to protect the lipo cells from being discharged bellow 3V per cell

HV: High Voltage

FET: Field-Effect Transistor. High current devices used in speed controllers that channel battery current to the motor.

MOSFET: Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor. Other less common versions: Metal-Oxide Silicon Field-Effect Transistor, and Metal-Oxide Substrate Field-Effect Transistor.

NiMH: Nickel Metal Hydride Battery

NiCD: Nickel Cadmium Battery

Lipo: Lithium Polymer Battery

Cap: Actually not an acronym, but an abbreviation for capacitor.

A: Amps. Electrical term for current.

V: Volts. Electrical term for voltage.

W: Watts. Electrical term for wattage or power. 1 horsepower = 745.7 watts.

mAh: milliamp-hours. Battery capacity rating. How many milliamps a battery can deliver for one hour. There are 1,000 milliamps (mA) in one amp. So 1000mAh is the same as 1Ah.

WOT: Wide Open Throttle


Forum "shorthand" acronyms:


IIRC: If I Remember Correctly

ATM: At The Moment

IMO: In My Opinion

IMHO: In My Honest (or Humble) Opinion

BTW: By The Way

OTOH: On The Other Hand

AFAIK: As Far As I Know

FWIW: For What It's Worth

FYI: For Your Information

ATB: All The Best

FTW: For the Win

IDK: I Don't Know

IDB: I Do Belive

GL2U: Good Luck To You



PM : Personal Message



MP : Market Place

[quagman9000]

Thats a lot more than I expected.

Thanks

[quagman9000]

So from all of this I have come up with:

-Long travel rockers
-Spring loaded wheelie bar
-Lipos
-4 channel radio with the docking base
-2 speed transmission
-Telemetry censors
-Plasti dip the servos
-Water proof the MMM
-TVR/Summit drive shafts
-T lock diffs (maybe I can find/make a metal locker)
-Chassis brace
-Tape the tires
-Extended summit rear A arms (do they fit all around without looking funny?)
-A motor mount mod
-A brushed motor for crawling
-Summit bulkheads
-The XO-1 1717 motor
-The Mamba XL (can it run brushed?)
-An aluminum slipper clutch


These things aren't in any order yet so please give some input.

Just curios if it would make a difference to remotely operate the wing. I probably wont do it (not enough channels) unless I can find a way to link the position of the wing to the speed of the car.

As I replace bearings should I upgrade to ceramic or stick with the stock ones.

Any recommendations are appreciated. Thanks.

[87 GN]

As I replace bearings should I upgrade to ceramic or stick with the stock ones.


no, not for what they want for a set, jmo, but you can run them it's up to you.....

[quagman9000]

Just thought of this, what if I used a gyro on the wing to control it so when the back end goes down the wing compensates to bring it up again and vise versa or would I still need another channel to plug it all into?

Really what I should be asking is if its necessary?

Thanks.

[87 GN]

Ive got nothing to really add
will be interesting & not real sure why you need it, first crash it might be all for not..

then again this is a hobby...lets see what you come up with...gl2u

[quagman9000]

So I just went to the ERBE page (for some unknown reason) and I noticed a price change, does anyone know why?

http://traxxas.com/forums/showthread...des-for-racing
In post two it says something about variable damping pistons, can someone give me some more information? Also in post four I think those chassis are pretty cool but would they be week or let a lot of dirt in? If not than I think it might be on the list.

Thanks.

[MITCH316]

Here mate...read post #32. I have a pic in that post so you can see what it looks like. It comes with a valve flap that you can instal on the top or bottom depending what you want from your truck. Mine is on the bottom for bashing .

[quagman9000]

No more comments or ideas on the price change, chassis or wing?