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Papabash's Team BWD 'Low-Pro' Wedge Build

EverettY said:
How much would you seriously want?
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Honestly, my son and I run 3 different classes locally (1.9, 2.2, scalers) and just keeping the 7 or so rigs going that we use for that takes enough of my time. Even if I did tune your rig like mine, your driving style may be totally different, and it wouldn't work for you. I've given you basically everything you need to know to make yours just like mine. It's just a matter of taking the time to test-n-tune your rig to your particular driving style. Just make small changes each time, and only change 1 thing at a time and pretty soon you'll have it dialed in. "thumbsup"
 
EverettY said:
OK you got any tips for driving in the rain? Cause it's supposed to rain on Sunday....
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Yeah, don't. :mrgreen:







Seriously, I don't have any advice, I've never driven one of my comp rigs in the rain. They aren't waterproofed like our scalers.
 
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Every now and then someone PM's me with a question about servo size (torque) and BEC's. This is to help those who may still have questions:

I have mentioned in various threads that it has been my experience that with a Hitec 5645mg or smaller a BEC is not needed, but anything above a 5645mg a BEC is a necessity even on 2S.
When I give this advice I am assuming that the person is relatively new to crawling and will be hooking the servo up in the "normal" way, that is with all the receiver plug wires in place. However, I do not run a BEC on my rigs even with the high torque (403 oz) Hitec 7954SH that I run. The reason for this is that I run my servos directly off the battery instead of through the receiver. In this way I ensure that my servo gets the full 7.4V that it is designed to handle without the glitching that is common with running a high torque servo off of the receiver without a BEC. My son and I just replaced the 5645mg in his Mini Wedge with a Hitec 7954SH last night, but in our hurry to get it done, I forgot and plugged it in to the receiver. After a couple of minutes on the rocks in our garage, he kept complaining about the rig glitching and stalling. After about 10 minutes, it finally hit me what we had done and we took the rig to the shop, soldered the servo leads to the battery and presto, no more glitching! "thumbsup"

Just thought I'd share in hopes of clarifying some of my previous posts.
 
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I've got a BEC in the loop on my Mini Wedge but am interested in taking it out of the equation and running my HS5955TG off a 2S.

So, I separate the red wire out and solder that to the positive lead from my esc to the battery and the brown out and solder that to the negative lead from my esc to battery and keep the yellow wire in the plug and plugged into the receiver as normal ?

Please tell me if I have this right before I spark up the soldering iron
 
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neiloid1 said:
So, I separate the red wire out and solder that to the positive lead from my esc to the battery and the brown out and solder that to the negative lead from my esc to battery and keep the yellow wire in the plug and plugged into the receiver as normal ?
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Yes, you have it right. What I like to do is use a short servo extension and plug the servo into it first, then cut the positive and negative wires on the other end of the extension and solder them to the ESC's battery leads. This way if you have to change the servo later, you simply unplug the old one from the extension and plug the new one in, without having to re-solder.
 
Another win for the Low-Pro today, it's now 8 for 8. "thumbsup"
The knuckle weights and rear weights seemed to do the trick and made an already super-stable rig even more stable and easy to drive. I'm very happy with the modifications at this point. Here are a few shots from today's comp:

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Thanks, we tried out a new place yesterday, it was a lot of fun, but it was relatively flat so we had to get creative with our gate placement to make it challenging. That last gate turned out to be a booger, but I got through it without a penalty. :mrgreen:
 
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hillbillyrc said:
nice, i have to say that last pic is my favorite.
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Here's a little video of how close I came to screwing things up on that gate. It was one of those that looked really easy but ended up being a bit tricky if you weren't paying attention. :oops: It's about as close as I care to come to a gate marker, but somehow I managed to squeak by without touching it. :mrgreen:
There are 2 gates set up by each other in the video, the lower markers are for a previous gate going up, the left and upper markers are for the finish gate. It gets a little shaky because my son is filming the course for me and is laughing pretty hard watching me sweat through this one. :ror:

Almost An Oops! - YouTube


 
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