Drive motor options

[Daniel]

Found the Trackstar 80A instruction manual. There's a few things that arn't actually listed on the hobbyking webiste such as it is rated for motors < 2300kv. Also the controller can be reprogramed for brushed motors but I don't know how well that works. Here are the 9 programing options and what I chose:

1) Brake/Reverse type - 1. Reverse Lockout - Allows reverse only after 2 second pause at neutral throttle
. 2. Forward/Brake Only
. 3. Forward/Brake/Reverse - What I chose. Reverses as soon as motors brakes to zero rpm.
2) Brake Amount - I set this at 100%
3) Reverse Amount - You can chose 25%, 50%, 75% or 100%. 50% was default, so I changed to 100% or I'll drive in circles.
4) Punch Control - Basically has settings for acceleration - High, Medium, Low, Lowest or disabled. I think I had it disabled.
5) Drag Brake - How much braking when the motor coasts. I might have screwed up and set one motor at the highest, 40%, and the other at 0%. Didn't effect driving much.
6) Throttle Dead Band - The largest is 0.1500ms, default is 0.1000ms and the smallest is 0.0250ms. I left it at default because I didn't quite understand what would happen if I changed it and it seems to work as is. The largest would give more kick to start the motor but lower gives more control.
7) Voltage Cutoff - I left this default at Auto-Lipo, for obvious resons.
8 ) Motor Timing - You can select lowest for efficiency, highest for increased power, normal as default. I think I left it at default.
9) Motor Type - Brushless, Brushed Reversing or Brushed high power. I left this as brushless.

So it seems that for one of the controllers I only changed setting 1) reversing, 2) max braking and 3) 100% reversing. Took a bit to understand how to program it with a pistol radio, but wasn't hard once I understood the instruction's chinglish