Mid West Regional Magic Smoke spotted
 

for those of you who saw it and had a laugh:( this was the result..

wires look awfull close to the drive shaft,

they are but the cells never move an inch so its never a problem , you would see the marks on the drive shaft if they did..

Ouch, you think a fan (not the cheering kind) would have helped?

i dont know to be honest Bathy, i had one on the motor as it was..
sending off to Horizon anyway, have put in there for a replacement TC version ;) (no harm in asking)

Paul

You may be in for a 'little wait'! I've just had my replacement LRP Sphere back from horizon hobbies after waiting 5 weeks! :o

Seams the same with Nosram/Mirarge. Just sent my Matrix off and they too out of stock with a delivery expected mid to end may, but unsure as to how far I am down the list weather I get one from that batch!:confused:

There seams to be a lot of 'magic smoke' in the air!:D

Ive had worse, one of my old KO's back in the 90's imploded, there was just a big hole through the middle :D

Imploded? Cooooool!

I've sent my motor back to horizon, and they informed me that they had no stock to fix it, so i reckon it's gonna be a long wait as well.

Out of curiosity, has anyone had a Novak motor pack in?

Strange My LRP Motor Melted down (pattern forming here) at tivvy 3 weeks ago and got a replacement next day from Horizon so im surprised your having to wait...
be interested if anyone has had problems with Novak Speedos also ..
or is the problem with LRP & Nosram ???

yeah mate, they replaced it the first time after a day, but they hadn't actually fixed it, just replaced the rotor. it was still faulty though, so when i sent it back, they had no replacements.

might get a novak system to be honest

I had two Novak GTB's (2wd and 4wd) both for some reason gave my car major glitching/interferance (using KO 40meg). To the point my car was driving it's self at Coventry. Repoistioned my electrics but could not solve the problem.

Changed speedo's to Nosram 2wd and LRP 4wd (both with Novak motors) and solved the glitching, but my car now leaves a smoke trail like a red arrow and comes to holt with marshalls running for cover!:rolleyes:

how many people have tried using novak motors with LRP/Nosram speedos? cos the sensor wire does fit! just a bit reluctant to try it, in case the magic blue smoke shows itself

im sure Alex springer had that combo in his s4 at tivy. not sure how he got on with it

neeeeeed to know:o

poor wraggster, did it damage your S4?

Looks mankey, like a little shriveled (but metallic blue ) raisin.

no S4 was unharmed totallly.. just a nice aromatic smell to it at the moment ...:eh?:

I hate that smell, its awful.

novak motors run fine on lrp or nosram even says so on lrp forum

Yup, had a velociti 6.5 hooked up to a matrix evo since last year in the bj4 nae probs so far, touch wood. Runs fairly cool as well.

I've run Novak Motors in both LRP and Nosram speedos, and both speedo's have blown.:eh?:

Paul.
Have you got the speedo sorted yet and have you got in for Kiddy Yet?

no the speedo is still at horizon but had email saying warranty stock being sent from LRP this week sometime , but still 7th & 4th res so to be honest mark cant see me getting in ...:(

Anyone tried orion /peak brushless motors with lrp speedos

i was gna ask, has anyone tried orion/peak brushless motors at all?? [part from ash, who i know does]

also, whilst we're on the subject of magic smoke, my friend used to run an mTroniks Cirrus, and once, we switched it on and suddenly BANG! and the speed control set on fire and the car started running round and round in circles, like a chicken with no head, all over the road. :D

[the control] had a HUGE hole in the side and back of it and was surrounded by magic smoke and guey remains :p

haha!

sorry about the lil story lol.

i run a novak gtb with lrp motors and also a lrp speedo with novak 4.5 motors all with no probs . (yet;) )

Fantastic service again by Horizon .. i now have a brand new replacement Speedo from them turn up today ..:) ..

Good to here that paul.

A

ooo, wonder if my motor's turned up then...

Yeah thats very good.

I sent my LRP Stealth 2 charger back once, and it was replaced with a brand new one withing 1 week.

Not bad when postage will have taken up alot of that time :)

That said, I did end up buying a Team Orion Advantage 2 charger, for liPO charging.

alecs setup didnt even wrk....lol

has it shorted on the carbon, thats what it looks like

I had a LRP/Nosram blow up in my XXX4 when the speedo moved

It shouldn't have JP as the graphite chassis is non conductive, it would only blow on a carbon fiber chassis