Grinding Gears On Our New Custom Traxxas TRX-6 Man-Unimogish RC Crawler - Holmes Hobbies 

Rofl

Now I can do a series on making this thing work well! This is how the last owner was driving it... what he experienced wasn't optimal. Tore into it and fixed the mesh in an upcoming vid.

About the same to a bit less speed.

@@HolmesHobbies Would the hobbywing fusion handle stepping up to a 16 tooth pinion to regain some top speed? With it's FOC ESC I'll still have decent low speed control.

@@HolmesHobbies Or at least a 14t pinion. I just know 16 is the largest I can go with the factory spur. Thanks for your expertise. I'm a bit of a newb. Trying to soak up a little knowledge.

If HolmesHobbies offered a FOC system I would give it consideration. But.......

I dont know about gearing on it. FOC isn't needed to drive like an axe or fusion. The new crawlmaster esc is not FOC but it has rpm lock and ultra low startup.

It is unfortunately but the manual is 9/10 incorrect when it comes to the mesh on smaller pinions. 12T pinion on a 45T spur recommends the D position, but E is much smoother. That’s where mine is

Capen Park. Shade and tons of rock

@@HolmesHobbies right on, it’s been 20 years since I’ve been to Capen. I’ll return the favor; if you ever want to trail ride in Kansas City, look up blue river glades AKA eddy Ballantine hiking trails. There are huge slabs of flat rock tilted at traction-challenging angles.

I'll tell my dude. We shoot in 4k

Solid recommendation.

@@HolmesHobbies yeah and 4k would be even better! But 4k is so much l longer to render and so much more storage it may not be worth it. But 1440 seems to get the picture quality over the hump, while not taking nearly as long to render compared to 4k.

seems the only 6x Dakar trucks I can find are actually RC's. All the 1:1 I find are 4x

In terms of static hold, not at this time. Later this year when some new Holmes ESCs come out, static hold will be equivalent to the axe.

@@HolmesHobbies that's very good news. Really excited. Keep up this amazing work that you're doing for the hobby john. Thanks very much.

Do you think it’s due to the 550 length of the axe that gives it so much hold?

ShivOm SinGh, Mamba X is Good I have several, it doesn't compare to the slow speed crawl of the XERUN FOC R2 & anyone saying it does is nothing more than a Fan boy. I have several esc's from several companies spend 2 minutes running an Axe R2 & a blind man can see & feel the difference. doesn't mean Mamba X's aren't good there just a multi purpose esc not built straight for crawling such as the Xerun plus there obnoxiously noisy, there's nothing wrong with giving other companies (Hobbywing) props when they do it right!! I can't praise Holmes products enough I own many of his combos etc as well but let's be honest when talking about the XERUN as well........ I might upload a video to show the real world difference between Hobbywing R2 & anything else compared to it. it's kinda like cheating its so slow & smooth, makes it borderline not fair to even use in competition...

@@OswaldBeef I don't think so as the 540 axe Motor also does amazing when it comes to drag break. Axe has quite weird technology fir breaking, Try rotating the shaft of the motor, when it stops it will not only stop but also try to go a bit in the opposite direction. That I think is responsible for better drag break. Because the actual rotor and magnets are much more superior in the holmes puller motors while comparing the 540 Axe motor and definitely alot better then stock castle slate motors.

Found out it was limited to 50% speed

Over torqueing the slipper clutch nut will just lock the clutch... It won't make that noise.

Turns out it was running reverse with 50% speed...

The general feedback has been that the 3300kv is not as smooth as lower kv choices.

@@HolmesHobbies what size crawler would you recommend for rock crawler/scrapping up/ more abuse lol

Gonna take some time to sort everything out. Did firmware update, fixed mesh, and next thing will be different radio.

@@HolmesHobbies did you guys do the foc re learn thing? That axe also has the 5mm shaft and requires it to be one hole different than what traxxas says. Iirc it comes with an 11t pinion.

Yeah, did that too. Still a little touchy but it's the v1 axe which might not be great with 3300kv. I hear the v2 is much smoother

@@HolmesHobbies mine is a v1 as well but only 2300kv. It's on par with my 6 shooter. They're very similar imo.

Clearly you've never used one....

@@nj2033 You should watch the John Holmes review of the AXE system. It shows you all you need to know. But you go ahead and support the Chinese worker and their gov't. They will take your job one day too.