speedo thermal...

[ben]

Ok if i had a big enough lipo which would be capable of running 45 minutes on a clay track with the the sun shining and an lrp tc spec speedo and a 7.5 motor, would the speedo thermal before the battery died???

Ben

[blitzboy]

depend how hot it was shimage

[ben]

Ok ok ok, so if you just kept running the car round and round is the speedo likely to thermal in 45 minutes?

Or the motor thermal/stop???

[Mike Hudson]

depends what you've geared the motor on dude, amount of grip on track & temp, probably woudn't advise thrashing an esc and motor that long & your tyres would be shagged by then! would like to see one of your cars last that long without breaking!

[blitzboy]

nice one mike lmao

[ben]

Originally Posted by Mike Hudson

depends what you've geared the motor on dude, amount of grip on track & temp, probably woudn't advise thrashing an esc and motor that long & your tyres would be shagged by then! would like to see one of your cars last that long without breaking!

hehe your ssssuch a joker,

But yeh me and a well known F1 driver were having a little banter about this.... he reckons that the speedo, motor would last for 45 minutes. I dont lol, cos i mean speedo's sometimes thermal in a 5 minute run!...

I dont mind if im wrong btw on my opinon, ill be over it soon :P

[Southwell]

I think they hit a temp limit normally so it should be ok. Thermalling normally happens when a car is on the wrong gearing/no air flow.
I ran my xx4 indoors with a 6.5 and the race after Darren used it and had no issues at all, apart from a boiling hot motor, which you would expect with 14 odd minutes of running.

[Richard Lowe]

Ben you're just wrong

If it's geared correctly it will reach thermal equilibrium after a couple if minutes, then it will last as long as the battery lasts. It doesn't keep getting hotter and hotter the longer you run it