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hey what's up guys JC sense here did things a little differently today we're gonna review a piece here from Traxxas that was actually sent over by my friends over at mass drop because they just launched their new Arcee page where they're doing group by discount pricing on our see stuff and they've also got a Corvette page to can they have done like maybe something JDM or whatever anyway we're gonna take a look today at the slash 4x4 and since it's raining outside so poorly I figure we can also give a little bit of test to their claim of being waterproof so I guess go ahead and check that out that'll be fun right okay so obviously this isn't my set I am at my buddy Rob's house I'm gonna give a huge thanks to him because you know we all have that friend that knows something more than you about a certain subject and he's like my RC guru friend and not to mention he's also got more space over there we can get in the dirt so I want to get a thanks to him for letting me use his garage here but when it comes to the specs here this is a brushless motor it's got their VX l3 waterproof electronic speed control which is one of the reasons why we're checking that today it's got a seven cell nickel metal hydride battery which I think is kind of disappointment number one I think with how cheap lipo is getting I would have liked to have seen tracks to send this with lipo straight out of the box as with all things RC one of the easiest ways to get more power out of your RC is either through gearing or through more cells but this is a seven cell 8.4 volt so it should have some pretty good get-up-and-go it does have their what they call their ID technology so it's basically a smart battery it's going to communicate well with the receiver or the transmitter as well as an app that you can download from Trax's if you guys can see my breath it's actually cold here in California where it's like 48 degrees right now we're not used to the but you can download the app and you can see some telemetry when it comes to your car your remaining voltage speed I mean all sorts of stuff is that's one of the reasons why we're doing this video today is the fact that you can buy the optional module and see a lot about what's going on with the car that's something new but anyway it does also feature a 2.4 gigahertz radio which is pretty much standard these days but it is a ready to run out of the box which is kind of nice because you can get yourself a kit but then you've got to add your own radio your own electronics and then you're left trying to figure all that stuff out but this thing does come out of the box ready to run now this is also the or Mike Jenkins edition can I wish a go with Leroy Jenkins but whatever I'm assuming that's gonna be what the library is based on here but if we go ahead and take off the four pins for the body you'll see one of the reasons why I like electric cars I used to do nitro but nitro was a bigger pain in the ass to deal with and I know that's gonna piss some people off if you like nitro great I had a rivo that was fully built I just didn't like having to clean it out it's as you can see there's not a whole lot going in here and if we compare this here to the original slash which you got here and you can see this has paddles on it you can tell he likes to go to the sand everything appears to be pretty much the same so I think the only thing that's really going to be different here is looks like the ESC is a little different if you zoom in on that ESC you can see the new one there's got some capacitors there same basic design for the heatsink the power buttons in the same spot that seems to be the only visible visible difference is the capacitor sticking out of the new ESC there suspension here this is a this is a four wheel drive the suspension here you can see it has helper springs so theoretically you could jump this it's got a pretty decent amount of travel on the suspension here it feels pretty good but I mean most of the time first thing people do when they get their RC cars they put better Springs and Federer shocks the shock body is on there one of the first things I did with my Revo as well as my twin hammers but you know it's not a whole lot to say about it really I've had the battery charging now and that's gonna be my biggest complaint about this particular kit from Traxxas is the fact that the battery that they send with this now I know that the battery chargers that come with these kits are always bottom shelf they're cheap ease expect you to probably buy some sort of a special you know custom electronic charger whether it's what I use with my twin hammers actually it's a auto-sensing it automatically sets itself up but this one here only comes with a cigarette lighter charger so if you want to play with it at home the only way you can charge it is take it to your car plug it into the cigarette lighter which is kind of weird because any other RC car I've ever had has come with at least a wall adapter an alligator clip so you have the flexibility to charge it out wherever you might be playing with the car but if you want to be using it at home then you have to charge it in your car which is what we're actually doing right now and one thing I want to point out with the charger here is that I'm charging it right now my 370z which you know is a push-button start and what I thought was really strange was the moment it plugged the charger into the cigarette lighter and then plugged the battery in without touching the key or the button the accessory turned on in the car the radio turned on in my laser and radar scanner started beeping low voltage at me okay so here's the charger we're in the car you can see show the radio here nothing's on nothing's doing anything but watch what happens the second I plug this thing in see my scanner showing low volt and it turns on the stereo so going to show that show the starett show the stereo and the battery here now watch let's do that again that's weird some of the things that they send here obviously they send you some spare parts you've got your wheel nut right are your wheel wrench right here you've also got a wrench on here so you can adjust your shocks you also have some spare parts of things that will commonly break extra body clips looks we've got some extra hubs wait Rob what are these yeah shot that's my bow shock spacers here so you can do some tuning of the shocks and then you have also got right here more body clips so the foam piece for would use this foam piece for okay so yeah so this is to take up space on the if you go with a higher output but smaller cell see this is why we go to someone who knows more so that you can sound smart but really just repeat what he's saying something else that's included in here which is kind of cool it's out of the box this thing is rated 40 miles per hour and that's fun and that's quick but we like to go fast right and they know that you guys want to go fast but they also include a high speed gear in here as well which looks like it attaches to the pinion and this is actually gonna turn it into a 60 mile-per-hour truck out of the box with the same cell that it comes with now one thing they do recommend is that you only use this on hard surfaces and that you don't use it on start conmen start stop start stop because they say that this gear will overheat the motor if you do that because as use accelerating that's the most output and torque the motors going to give and so it can actually build up a lot of heat in there so you definitely want to keep that in mind but anyway yeah let's go ahead and wait for that battery to charge I'm gonna see how long it took I timed when I started so we'll see if it's a quick charging battery like it promises and then we'll see how much runtime we can get out of that battery in this cold condition because as you guys know the harder the electronics get and harder the ESC gets the more power draw so it can actually kill your battery faster in a hotter condition now it's really cold today so I guess this would be more of a best-case scenario but anyway it's got some fun a few moments later oh this is a four-wheel drive unit here as you can see I guess we're definitely testing the water resistance portion of it I think it's up and moves even in the mud Mickey Thompson baby hope there's no cars coming that was a bad idea we're obeying the speed limit obeying the speed limit coming back up that's pretty stable I don't even found a little jump right there so far that's full lock on the turns it's not rolling whoa right as I say that oh no that's not cool at all as soon as I say that it makes me a liar I'll be honest I don't even feel like I want the high-speed here especially if we're in the dirt I mean I know it says not to this is so much fun as it is already whoa two wheels the suspension seems to be pretty well sorted out for the dirt it's kind of got that rear squat going on if you'll think it's got a really good balance of both on and off road that's kind of cool if I flip this up around automatically every time I get away from that spot that's a terrible thing now it's one thing important to point out too is you might have you may have known that may not have heard it right there these are not locking diffs so of course the powers going to transfer to the wheel that has the least amount of traction so that's one thing to keep in mind that's why with my rock crawler I had to put in locks diff that way we could actually climb up things without getting the wheel with the least weight on it spinning and nothing happening so that was what was happening right there and is getting up on two wheels the right side wheels are turning with nothing happening I think for an out-of-the-box ready to run racer given they're not they're not too expensive I mean RC hobbies not cheap any hobby really isn't cheap I'm standing here in the rain with the radio no problems hopefully my mic isn't failing in the rain that's more expensive to this truck and I'm having a lot of fun see we can see we get coconut monkey wet here joke's on me though if I do because it's my camera we're not turning it right anymore though oh that's cuz I've got ya it's time to clean out the undercarriage you got some stuff stuck in there okay so I had some twigs and branches and stuff stuck up here in the steering mechanism which was what was keeping it from turning but what's nice about this and it's something I forgot to mention was that this does have servo sabers on it so if this thing got jammed up like it was and you're sitting there trying to turn it and turn it this is gonna keep you from burning out your say your servo especially your steering servo because it does have steering servo saver in it but I just want to kind of open this up now and let you see that I mean not like we could pull any movie magic here and like I know how to do any of that this thing is soaked almost as wet as I am and you guys can take that however you want I guess I came to feel my fingers they're numb we are not worth or used to this weather I'm telling you so there's the inside I got half the lawn in there yeah everything kept working I'd say it lives up to its promises of being water you know it says water-resistant to be fair but I mean you can't go driving this in the pool necessarily and expect the best results this you might be able to for a short amount of time but remember I I smacked the hell out of that phone box out front no damage no bends it's got a huge bumper on the front of this before anything that actually has any sort of mechanical mechanism in the front for steering or drivetrain was affected this absorbed everything there's no cracks no bends I thought I might have cracked this I've done that before no in this truck but on my twin hammers when the first times I hit something whether to just crack the bumper off but yeah everything looks like it's nice and intact to me now my buddy says I can actually get away with doing this and I think we're gonna go ahead and well if we're wrong and it was fun while it lasted the truck oh we need more pressure captain hey my problem is I've got all the grass just gunked-up in here I'm gonna pick that out with my hands I'm inside the body out there I guess now I'm gonna follow this up with showing that it still works huh let's see if it still works all right radios on truck is on all right that lives up to the to the promise there okay so this was a lot of fun as you guys saw cleaning it off was pretty easy make sure you don't let it sit there with water in it turn it upside down blow it off if you have a compressor don't let the water just chill on the electronics that wouldn't be a good thing but let's talk about this real quick if you're a seasoned RC enthusiast this is gonna be kind of no big deal to you it's not the first time you've seen waterproof electronics it's not the first time you've seen a slash in fact you might even think that the slash is not that great of a truck but this is really designed especially the ready to run stuff from Traxxas is designed to appeal to people who want to get into RC stuff not break the bank to do it have something that can really be thrashed on and just hold up you got let me you guys so I was a full throttle frontal impact into that TV pole or that that phone pole which was not or there was a cable box but that was not intentional I'm just really bad at determining where my line is from a side perspective because I don't have a lot of experience with fast-moving trucks like I said I built a rock crawler you would never even know I hit it there's not even a mark on the front of this thing at all so this is really intended for someone who wants to get into the sport but have it ready to run model that's also upgradable because there's lots of upgrades you could do to this it's already got brushless components in here it's already got a pretty decent ESC am i doing a simple lipo or lithium polymer battery lithium polymer right yeah let the in polymer I didn't know exactly the post in it or I just guessed you can you can get more speed out of this you could change that gear running on hard tarmac which honestly me personally I'm gonna leave this gear in here I have more fun with the off-road but it's fast it's fun I had more battery charge left out it in fact we've probably ran it for a solid ten minutes right there and it wasn't fully charged it was 75% charged in about the 40 minutes I had it going and probably the cold weather was attributed to that but this is the sign for someone wanting to get into it not spend a lot of money durable upgradable and you really don't need to do much to it to go have fun which is the point here ready to run out of the box and lots of fun anyway guys thanks for watching today's video the huge thanks once again to mass drop for sending me this guy here again this is part of their new RC page it's opened up where you guys can get some group by and group discounts on RC stuff you can find the link to that down in the description well probably doing some more RC stuff here in the future it's another hobby of mine it's tech related I wish I was able to do the smart component to it where you can connect to the receiver and connect to the car or in the transmitter and control things with the car and see what's happening with the telemetry but that requires an additional piece that I don't have so I'm not able to do that maybe we'll check that out in the future anyway thanks for watching guys let me know if you thought of this if you want to see more RC stuff and if you want to see more RC stuff tell me what you want to see I want to do some aviation I'm thinking some some helicopters not really quad copters but I like to see helicopters planes and even boats maybe we'll get out to the lake but if the boat flips over coconut monkeys going to get it not me alright guys we'll see you in the 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