Went with the open diff (one wheel drive) .. works fine as long as I drive it on a level surface, which I plan to anyway
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2 ESCs on one receiver.
- Thread starter JoeConti
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Went with the open diff (one wheel drive) .. works fine as long as I drive it on a level surface, which I plan to anyway
Late or not, its always good info .. thank you .. maybe a future project, but I do have leftover quadcopter ESC, but it is brushless. It is new and I have had it for about 6 years now, sealed, and yesterday I opened the bag to see if I can use it. It's a brushless ESC and not sure if it can handle a brushed motor, I know some can but am not sure about this one. However, I found some small crawler ESCs for 1/18 scale crawlers that hopefully will do the trick. Gonna have to wait for them to get here first
Voodoobrew
I wanna be Dave
I was thinking the mini 380 revolver would be great for the forks. Not sure what size the motors are originally.
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The motors that come with it are the ones I had in my Scalextric layout when I was a kid haha like so:
<img border="0" src="http://www.joecontirc.com/rc-social/users/%7B00000002-0000-0000-0000-000000000000%7D/c8197.jpg" width="589" height="332">
Is the revolver the one that makes that whining noise?
Voodoobrew
I wanna be Dave
Yes, but it will kinda sound like a hydraulic pump I think. lots of smooth power for the size. I think the 380 might be to big though looking at this motor, just a guess.
Interesting. You have a good point, but sadly the gearbox/axle housing is one piece of plastic which, if I cut up to fit that motor, there no way it will all fit back ... if this was an SCX10 style chassis we'd be having a different conversation!!
fyrstormer
RCC Addict
Why not just replace the locked diff with an unlocked diff?
I have a strong feeling I will not find replacement parts for this let alone optional add-on parts
But as I said earlier, I made the forklift one wheel drive and it is functioning well as it is, especially since I will only be driving it on a flat surface this thread is completely lacking in pictures no pics than it dident happen
hahaha - got a build blog if you want a link - I didn't share it because it's like I'm trying to pull people from here to my blog.
robert@castle
Quarry Creeper
This is the problem with the internet.... I have way too many projects right now, but reading this thread makes me want to buy a toy r/c forklift off of Amazon for $80 and try to convert it to use brushless hub motors. I need to finish other projects first, but I am really tempted to buy the stuff to do it.
fyrstormer
RCC Addict
You don't need parts for this vehicle, you can modify a differential for a different vehicle to make it fit.I have a strong feeling I will not find replacement parts for this let alone optional add-on parts
Done now!
fyrstormer
RCC Addict
Yes, I understand you finished the project. I'm saying there are ways you could further improve it.
No the project is not finished. Waiting on ESCs but as for the drive train part I'm done and when tested I found it to fit my needs. Some more work needed on the steering though!