Maiden voyage this weekend

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Got everything hooked up. Checked and ready. Got a cool billet cap for the fuel and decided to use that to vent the tank instead of the plastic cap. Looks decent I think.


only thing that kinda upsets me is the fact that at least 1/3 of the chassis allen screws were kinda stripped from the factory. Don't know if Redcat would be willing to send me some to replace them or not? Kinda stuck here. Can't take them out, can't tighten them. Should I just wait for them to fall out? Thinking that's my only option...


waiting on a kill switch. Hooked up the failsafe tonight and testedIit with just the electronics so hoping that'll get me by for the week. Won't be ran much... maybe a couple times for the break in period but that's about all for now
 
Ok. Someone please explain the closed loop plastic key way? Can not find anything about this...

and, break in gas, heard everything from 28 to 1 to 25 to 1 to 20 to 1. What shall I choose?
 
Neff said:
Ok. Someone please explain the closed loop plastic key way? Can not find anything about this...and, break in gas, heard everything from 28 to 1 to 25 to 1 to 20 to 1. What shall I choose?
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I was always told 25:1. One gallon gas and 5oz of oil.
 
the little plastic looking spike that's inline with the failsafe that plugs into channel 3
 
Ahhh, that's the bind cable. You shouldn't need it now but if you ever have a problem getting your transmitter and receiver to "talk" to each other, you may need to bind them.

Here's a video on how it works:

 
yes, correct...

and right now the bind cable is plugged into the failsafe cable and that is plugged into channel 3... inside the receiver box. do I need to take that apart and unplug anything? I assumed that was how it was all ran inline... maybe I was wrong.?
 
hmm, it came that way? Strange.

Yup, I'd pull it all out. Bind cable shouldn't be left in place and your receiver has a built in fail safe but be sure to get a real kill switch soon.
 
Thank you. I will pull the failsafe cable and the bind cable out of the receiver box and just put them in my spare parts bin. Kill switch will be ordered Mon. Killer Bee is what I'm hearing is the preferred. What do you think?... and thanks for the reply. Appreciate it :)
 
I just pulled them both out... now confused if I should leave the failsafe plugged into channel 3 or not???

On a side note, if I have the receiver and Transmitter on, with throttle wide open on the transmitter, then turn the transmitter off, it does kill power to the car and applies brakes so I assume the built in one does work...
 
Throw the external failsafe in the trash. It will cause problems because of the one built in the receiver.

Failsafes do not kill the engine. That is why you need a kill switch. A fail safe only redirects the servos. If you have servo issues it's game over if you don't have a kill switch.
 
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I'm reading this thred, and I'm thinking about something with my setup. I have a kill switch. I'm thinking that my bind thing it plugged in the end of the kill switch. Also, my kill switch only returns my servos to the off/neutral position. IS the kill switch supposed to kill the motor too? I'm super confused now.
 
Kill switch kills motor yes. Fail safe is for your servos. To set your fail safe have turn on your transmitter and receiver hold break full and press and hold lil button on receiver till it blinks. To test just turn off transmitter. Some one correct me if Im wrong.
 
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Sinist3r said:
I'm reading this thred, and I'm thinking about something with my setup. I have a kill switch. I'm thinking that my bind thing it plugged in the end of the kill switch. Also, my kill switch only returns my servos to the off/neutral position. IS the kill switch supposed to kill the motor too? I'm super confused now.
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Sounds like you are talking about an external failsafe. A kill switch does not control servos.

The Redcats still are packaged with a external failsafe it is not to be used with the vehicle. They were needed back in the day when the vehicles came with FM transmitters. Now the 2.4ghz radios have the failsafe built into the receiver.
 
RCDAD said:
Sounds like you are talking about an external failsafe. A kill switch does not control servos. The Redcats still are packaged with a external failsafe it is not to be used with the vehicle. They were needed back in the day when the vehicles came with FM transmitters. Now the 2.4ghz radios have the failsafe built into the receiver.
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You can see what you are referring to as a fail safe in the pictures of my carnage thred. If needed, I will take a better picture. I thought this was a kill switch. If not, looks like I need to get on that right away!
 
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