Your shortest RC run?

[wolfdogstinkus]

Blitzer beetle. 9T 4300Kv and 3s lipo,

Managed to do about 2 packs, in the whole time I had it without breaking anything,

Head in a straight line, slowly reach half throttle, blip full throttle, wheelie onto roof, and slide down the street at 40mph on it's roof, which is usually ok, it's the cartwheels that killed it.

[Mad Ax]

2.4ghz seems to mitigate this somewhat.

It's been a very long time since I've had any vehicle shoot off on its own, I don't think I've ever had this on 2.4Ghz.

That said, I'm pretty sure I have one speedo that goes into program mode if you turn the speedo on without having the transmitter switched on. Switch it on and leave it and it will cycle thru its different battery cutoff settings (2s, 3s, auto, and off). The problem is, I can't remember which speedo has this "feature" and I don't want to have to check every time that the cutoff is set properly.

[Gruntfuggly]

I think it was definitely a problem with MSC's back in the day. Modern ESC's + BEC Rx's don't seem to suffer the same problem - at least I've not suffered myself...

[moffman]

I had a very short bash over the park a fair few years ago!, me and a friend (who I haven't seen in years) since that day actually! But he had a fixation on wanting to see how far a RC truck would go before it ran out of range (I don't know why what an idiot!) But he never shut up about it I would say to him "its not something you ever want or need to find out" especially when his truck was a team associated MGT 5.0!!! Long story short is one day over the park I was dolling around my then savage he switched his MGT on blasted it in a straight line off in the distance it went 10 second's later in the woods over the other side a massive bang truck was totally destroyed he went home with his tail between his legs because a guy came over and had a right good go at him because it almost to the poor fella out and I've never seen that friend since that day (and that was about 5 years ago!)

[Dojo Dave]

When I was a kid my mother presented me with a hobby shop built WW circa 1983.... bought out of Leisure world in Belfast. I had to have it because I saw it in the catalog. So my good ol mum bought her very spoiled boy this creature we knew little about.. Now in those days nice things were a fairly new concept in our house as my mum had after the big D just got her business off the ground. So long story short the WW was turned on prior to the transmitter and shot across the living room into the brand new mahogany TV cabinet and took a chunk of the wood off. Needless to say that I was quickly instructed to" take that thing to your room and only play outside with it"... lesson learned. 4 months anticipation 4 seconds of wheels spinning, three weeks of waiting to try again. And I never heard the end of the TV cabinet damage.

[volvotech]

Plugged my battery in backwards once. The end. Saddle pack batteries and bullet connectors made it really easy to start a fire.

Fried a castle MMP esc and learned a very expensive lesson that day.

[NobbySideways]

I think this is an ideal place to pop my TC forum Cherry...

DT03 Neo Fighter, went brushless and Lipo. First time out didn't realise (partially due to the totally missing HobbyKing instructions) that there was a built in failsafe on the brushless speed controller. The failsafe was programmed by default to be one end or the other of the throttle range. Guess which one it was?

Turned the radio on, turned the car on. Drove about 20 feet. Accidentally knocked the power switch on the controller. Car defaults to full throttle....

Drove right across the park, over the pavement, into a parked car. Hit it square in the middle of its wheel trim, which shattered. Snapped my DT chassis right behind the nose body pin, exploded hubcap everywhere. Cue 36 year old man knocking on random houses trying to find out whose car I had hit because "my toy car went out of control".... Finally found the guy and it turned out he owned a garage and the car was the courtesy car, so didn't even want money for the replacement of the hubcap. Handy, because I then needed to buy a new DT03 chassis...

[Gruntfuggly]

Kudos for being honest. Most people these days would have just quietly walked away...

[NobbySideways]

Kudos for being honest. Most people these days would have just quietly walked away...

I can't run fast enough to be dishonest.

[Ian_Gsi16V]

Last night...

My Blitzer Beetle is in the middle of a gearbox tear down so decided to give my Monster Beetle a run as the wooded area we where heading to isn't really a high speed type place but perfect for the Monster Beetle. Pull it down off the shelf, battery in and give it a quick blip of the throttle and all good. Pack the MB and my nephews Lunchbox in the boot and get to our destination, Lunchbox goes in, its a mini jump and keeps going, MB goes in, hits a mini jump and the cracked motor mount finally gives up and motor is hanging out, switch it off and stick it back in the car

Will try again this weekend once the new part has arrived

[Darat76]

I had a HSP brand nitro truggy, been spending hours on this thing to get it run in and tuned, took it over to the athletics club behind the flat I was in, got it started, got it warmed up, it was running good, decided to do a speed run, so pointed it roughly down the straight of the running track, watching the truck, realize that's a solid metal pole firmly planted in the ground just as the truck collides with it, broken front wheel hub, c-hub, and lower arm, bent uni shaft, S shaped hinge pin, shortened and flattened tuned pipe, and later after parts replaced found 3 teeth missing from the spur gear of the center diff, spent more hrs tuning the motor and then sold it.

closest i've come since then was with my brand new just built serpent 1/8th scale truggy ($950 nzd) with a tekin rx8 gen 2 combo ($450 nzd lucky bargain) and running 2 brand new 8000 mah 100c 2s lipos ($150 nzd each), all plugged in, radio on, then truggy, place it on the pit lane at the local club track, go to get on the drivers stand and I hear the car start moving, turn around to see a red streak aiming for 1 of the 3 picnic tables at the track, pushing the trigger for brakes nothing happens for a couple more seconds, and it stops about a yard short of the table leg, radio is on 2.4g, rx is getting dodgy, changed over rx's before I lost control and the truggy in one go.

[Mad Ax]

Well that's a new one

Yesterday I put my 1:16 e-revo and my Blitzer in the car so I could go to my local bashing area for a lunchtime play. But the road that leads past it is closed, and the only way to get there is via a huge complicated diversion that would have taken far too long with only an hour to spare.

So this time I didn't even put a battery in before my run ended!

[Thirteen30]

10 hour drive to a camping spot, pull out the gf's t1 wheelie Van, totally forgot to bring the adapter to run deans to whatever the blue ones are lol we were pretty upset lol

[bullitt]

My brother had given me his Wild One in '89 after the gearbox stripped out. After reading about someone in RC Car Action strapping a Estes model rocket engine to their Kyosho Plazma pan car, I had a brilliant idea. I pulled the gearbox out and put a piece of PVC pipe in the back of the buggy and held it together with a hose clamp. I stuck the motor in the tube and found myself a long strip. I pushed the ignition and watched that lightweight buggy turn about 10 donuts in about 1.5 seconds. I tried it again later, but this time with a battery pack for additional weight. Again, 1.5 seconds, but this time it went about 100 feet.

Harry