New ZRP Diablo Green Lantern with Screw Loose Hardware

[Budhatrain]

I have been wanting to do a build with my son, he is super smart and I think the time is right. When we were out at rc4wd's East Cost Scale Competition I noticed that he has driving down pretty good. As a dad I want one-on-one time, and even though a project will take longer, it's valuable time for both of you. So we took the plunge.

With the upcoming racing season right around the corner, I thought building a novice truck would be good. Jon from ZRP let me pic up some special edition Diablo plates, the rest of the truck is my torn down nightwing truck. We are going to run stock silver can motors and use stock tires. My son or daughter will be coming up with me to the MI monthly races and this will be the truck they drive.



You will notice that for this truck I will be using SCREW LOOSE HEX HEAD HARDWARE (click to see hardware offer). With the special carbon fiber and the stainless steel hardware this chassis pops. Something I have noticed with the black hardware, is that from time sitting in my garage the screws start to rust. I anticipate that will not be a problem with the SS.



So this was a cool way to teach the "lefty loosey, righty tighty" of screws. He picked it up really good and screwing into machined links made it real easy. But he was stubborn he wanted to do all the links. I have to admit I was getting a little anxious just waiting but I caught myself and enjoyed the time.






After he went to bed I finished everything else except for the wheels. He really wanted to put the wheels on. But man I am like the blacked out links with the carbon fiber and stainless steel hardware. This truck looks boss!

 

[Budhatrain]

Sunday night's are like Friday night for me, I get to stay up real late. Got everything wrapped up so we could start on the wheels in the morning.




After I pulled my son from his video game we assembled the wheels.







I am not one for aluminum axles tubes but this truck came together real easy and looks awesome!!! I love the low profile of the Green Lantern body, blacked out links and tires, and then the stainless steel and aluminum bling.

So now I need to wire it up, I have a couple of ESC's laying around. I plan on running just one battery. Which ESC should I use? I think in the future I would like to add the option of faster modified motors so I am leaning toward the orange evx-2. I know the blue one will work. I am not worried about LVC because I have an alarm to hook up. I have no idea what the other orange esc is. I prefer to run castle because of adjust-ability on the computer.

SO- how do I make the orange evx-2 work? How do I know which battery lead to jump (if I need to)?

If I was going to run the castle- could I run two stock motors on this ESC? If there a special way to wire it?



Let me know your thoughts!!!

 

[ZRP_Racing]

Jee and I run two sillver cans off one SV2 escs in our kid's trucks. Just use the black and red wire. Nothing for the white wire.

 

[HawnMT]

If you use the EVX then you just have make a jumper for the "extra" battery wire. The way to find out which on that is is by plugging in a battery to one battery plug at a time and power on the esc. The one that can power the esc up in the main battery the other is the extra. From there you can either cut the plug off and splice the wires together or you can make a jumper plug(basically a plug that has the positive and negative leads connected by a wire). My only thing about the orange version of the EVX is that the BEC is really weak, 5V @ 1amp, where the blue version is 6V. That blue XL-5 has the 6V BEC and it's what I use to run my stock motored trucks, even the ones geared with 22t pinions.

 

[TXT-2.0]

looks great Mike hes a lucky boy thats so awesome hes wrenching on it ....mine just started to work on his Stampede and its great to watch him

 

[william g]

Jee and I run two sillver cans off one SV2 escs in our kid's trucks. Just use the black and red wire. Nothing for the white wire.

I like, and have used the Castle ESC's with silvercans, and really liked putting 3s to that setup.

 

[Budhatrain]

Jee and I run two sillver cans off one SV2 escs in our kid's trucks. Just use the black and red wire. Nothing for the white wire.

You two are my inspiration!!! HAHA

I can't wait to see Derrick race against the big kids.

If you use the EVX then you just have make a jumper for the "extra" battery wire. The way to find out which on that is is by plugging in a battery to one battery plug at a time and power on the esc. The one that can power the esc up in the main battery the other is the extra. From there you can either cut the plug off and splice the wires together or you can make a jumper plug(basically a plug that has the positive and negative leads connected by a wire). My only thing about the orange version of the EVX is that the BEC is really weak, 5V @ 1amp, where the blue version is 6V. That blue XL-5 has the 6V BEC and it's what I use to run my stock motored trucks, even the ones geared with 22t pinions.

Thanks for the info and thanks for the heads up on the low voltage BEC

looks great Mike hes a lucky boy thats so awesome hes wrenching on it ....mine just started to work on his Stampede and its great to watch him

Kids are great, for sure! I am hoping to get it running here before he goes to bed.

I like, and have used the Castle ESC's with silvercans, and really liked putting 3s to that setup.

3s I didn't know that...

 

[Budhatrain]

I went with the Castle system and got everything wired. It scoots pretty good, just ordered up some servo savers for the boy. I am pumped, this truck is planted--stable and capable. It just looks so cool. I am thinking some kind of green lighting on the inside. Need to look up how to wire up LEDs HAHA

I will post a vid of this truck!!! It's tight..

 

[ZRP_Racing]

I connect my LED headlights to a servo lead and plug it into the 3rd channel of the receiver. No extra batteries and they turn on and off with the ESC switch.

 

[northerngames]

nice looking build.

good to see a little one involved too and getting a head start.

stuff like that will stick with them forever at that age esp when it is something they can really get into and has their full attention/interest

 

[monsterjamman24]

You'll like the aluminum tubes when the truck hits something hard and stationery . I can't tell you how nice is is to not have to worry about breaking those.

 

[Supreme Reign]

Nice truck and that's a great way to spend time and bond with the kids. Those will be great memories.