Team Tekin Q&A

[Lowie]

well, I will be participating next weekend on the Belgian E.I.R. (Euro Indoor Race), Indoor 1/8 and 1/10 electro off-road.
It will be a track made with all new astroturf (so i guess tons of grip) and huge jumps, whoops, table ...
My car is a Pred and is equipped with an RS Pro and LRP 6.5 BL-motor.
But I'm rather inexperienced so I would like to start with a non-critical car, smooth on the throttle, ... and maybe later put a bit more juice into it if I can handle it better.
I plan to drive on safe at first, as "to win you have to finish first" ... but I will focus more on the finishing part

Should i play with lower settings on the Current Limit, Timing Advance, Throttle Profile?

Also, I understand Drag Brake and Push Control are opposite settings. The first applying brake when the throttle is in neutral while the second applies extra throttle. Why and when would you use those ... and by curiosity ... is itpossible to use both at the same time and why would you?

thx in adavance

[DCM]

right, a good starting point for general racing on the RS Pro with a 6.5

NW - 10
TP - 3
Lm - 90
Timing - 80
DB - 10
PC - 0

You would use a little drag brake on a sintered mod motor, a lot more on a bonded rotor mod motor. You would use push control on the stock ans super stock motors, to keep the speed up during the corner.

Ask Kev Lee at what he gears his 6.5 in his Pred.

[Cooper]

same question but for a 7.5 in an X6 please ;-)

Thanks !

[DCM]

only thing I would change, would be the limitir and timing, I might drop them both down 5% and go from there. If traction is plenty, go up a little.

[KevLee]

Originally Posted by DCM

right, a good starting point for general racing on the RS Pro with a 6.5

NW - 10
TP - 3
Lm - 90
Timing - 80
DB - 10
PC - 0

You would use a little drag brake on a sintered mod motor, a lot more on a bonded rotor mod motor. You would use push control on the stock ans super stock motors, to keep the speed up during the corner.

Ask Kev Lee at what he gears his 6.5 in his Pred.

I run 22/72 on a 6.5 in the Pred. My speedo setting are very similar to DCMs just i use TP4 and have LM Off.

[Stu]

Very impressed with the reliability of the Tekin ESC on the EBOR24 car.

Over the 24hr period it was accidentally shorted out across the motor wires on two occasions (smoke & sparks), it just carried on going without problems.

The electrics, like the car, did not miss a beat for the full duration.

[Lowie]

Originally Posted by Stu

Very impressed with the reliability of the Tekin ESC on the EBOR24 car.

Over the 24hr period it was accidentally shorted out across the motor wires on two occasions (smoke & sparks), it just carried on going without problems.

The electrics, like the car, did not miss a beat for the full duration.

What car and Motor were you running, Stu?

[Randy p]

Ask 'em here , ask 'em there, ask 'em anywhere!

Seriously, posting them here is just fine. Along with DCM I'm confident we can work out any of your problems or questions.

So just ask!

[niggs98]

Originally Posted by Lowie

What car and Motor were you running, Stu?

was a pred x11-08 with a tekin rs pro and a tekin redline 10.5. geared on 23/72, with the long run times we were aiming at we had a tp of 1 and a timing of 40. ran the full 24 hours without an issue other than when we shorted it across the prop twice and even then it didnt miss a beat

as for setups i will help you with yours at belgium m8 and we will tune it through the meeting to what you want. i have a hot wire and all the software you will need

[Lowie]

ok, we'll get into the hotwire-setting-upping with a Duvel in our hand then.

[geerno]

I have the RS Pro, just running it without the hotwire.

Is the hotwire software PC only. I have a Mac so most software is not written for Mac. I want to use this hotwire as I will be stepping up my motor soon.

Would look at the Tekin website, but it wont load up right now.

Cheers

[markwilliamson2001]

Get a copy of Parallels mate, for Mac, well worth it.

You can then use any PC-only software.

HTH
Mark

[DCM]

it is written for Windows based systems, as it uses the .Net framework, I believe.

[Lowie]

I'm no expert but I know that the Linux-community is making (or has made) a .net-alike envirement.
And as the latest Mac-OS has been based on UNIX, maybe there could be made a Mac-version of the Tekin-soft .. or made able to run the Tekin-soft on a Mac-os

[geerno]

Originally Posted by markwilliamson2001

Get a copy of Parallels mate, for Mac, well worth it.

You can then use any PC-only software.

HTH
Mark

Yeah, someone mentioned parallels for another issue with using non mac software that came with my camcorder. It looks like the only option until apple bring out the iEsc for RC Cars.

Do I need to get a Windows OS as well as the Parallels?

Cheers

[samd]

I hope someone that knows can help me with this.
I want to run a 5.5 in dual mode with a timing advance of 0deg.
On the RS pro I have read that in sensored mode the timing is endell timing + 'secret' 15deg so to keep timing the same when the RS Pro switches to sensorless mode does timing on the hotwire need to be set at 50?
So motor runs 0deg+15deg in sensored then 15deg(50 on hotwire) in sensorless to keep it the same?
Hope this make sense and someone knows! TA

[DCM]

what are you trying to acheive Sam?

[Fabs]

You don't wanna run anything less than 70% anyway mate in dual mode. Mine's set to 100, even though I run in sensored only.

[KevLee]

Originally Posted by samd

I hope someone that knows can help me with this.
I want to run a 5.5 in dual mode with a timing advance of 0deg.
On the RS pro I have read that in sensored mode the timing is endell timing + 'secret' 15deg so to keep timing the same when the RS Pro switches to sensorless mode does timing on the hotwire need to be set at 50?
So motor runs 0deg+15deg in sensored then 15deg(50 on hotwire) in sensorless to keep it the same?
Hope this make sense and someone knows! TA

I think i know what you are asking but i'm not sure why you want to do that? Its not a bad thing to have different timing at a different stage in the motors rev range. If you want grunt off the line low timing will help that, but if you want it to rev higher at the end of the straight the high timing on the sensorless mode will help.

I think Randy may be able to confirm your figures above but i think they are right.

As Fabs said you want you dual mode timing up higher than 50%, i run 80% (standard timing on motor) and never change it now.

[samd]

What i want to do is just keep the timing the same but run in dual mode. I am just trying to understand the relationship between the timing setting of the two modes.
Im running a LRP 5.5 X12 with 0deg recommended timing and im happy with the speed and motor temps but want to run dual instead of sensored only. Thanks for the quick response guys!