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Originally Posted by JackWood
Hi,
First post, but been lurking here for a while.
I also just bought my first RC car in 20 years from Marc at MK. And guess what, it was a Cat SX.
Amazing car to build. Got the car as a Christmas present to myself. Spent the week before Christmas building it, on the proviso from the wife that I couldn't drive it until Christmas day.
Loved building it. It is a work of art. I too couldn't wait to drive it, so ran it with clear shells. Not that bothered myself about the shell.
Unfortunately the Losi Xceleron only ran for about 10 minutes max before it had a major melt down. Marc has been great and the whole unit has been replaced under warranty. I should have the replacement back on Monday. Hopefully this one will work a little better.
I will get some pics as soon as I have it back together, but I'm running an LRP Lipo, and used some of the advice here to attach velcro to the battery strap to stop it sliding. The humps on the battery have to sit perfectly between the 2 pulleys at the front end, next to the servo. But with a bit of wire shortening, you can get a really neat set-up between the motor, ESC and Lipo.
Cassponk, what pinion size did you go for? Marc only had a 17T when I had mine delivered, but I have a larger one on the way with the new controller/motor.
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Glad I'm not the only one spending too much on a bit of a whim!
I've got a 22T pinion on advice from here. 17T seems quite a long way off? That would give you a lot of torque but slow accel right?
Putting 2 & 2 together, I think Marc mentoned your controller when I was asking about reliability having been warned off the controller by a few on here. Great service from the distributor! I've just updated the firmware on mine and had no probs. I like how they are configurable from software and all the cables etc are included. Some of the other controllers seem to requre morse code button presses to set things and that sucks!