Motor timing and gear reductions

[Thorsteenster]

When in doubt, just set the timing to 0. Pullers rarely if ever run backwards but in your truck you might want to reverse once in awhile which 0 timing is better.
If the gear reduction reverses rotation at the output though, don't worry about it as long as the motor is going forwards. From crawling it seems a general rule of thumb is to set timing at 0. My feeling is if you need to futz with timing, you should have gotten a hotter motor.

[fhhhstix]

Timing is directly related to efficiency you generally won’t need the power in reverse but in forward is were it counts the more efficient the motor runs it will result in longer run time and overall power. 0 timing in a crawler is right you don’t want to sacrifice one direction for another where as in a semi it may be beneficial. Just my thoughts.

Travis