I was able to guide the Wraith down into the sandy bottom and start working my way up the main path of the wash, looking for smaller rocks to climb over. This wash was fairly small, being only six feet deep and a few hundred yards long, and nicely adorned with interesting looking rocks and sloping, jagged dirt walls which twisted their way along the length of the wash. I cruised around the torn-up dirt, getting a feel for the Wraith, which actually surprised me with its speed and handling.Īfter a half-hour or so of this, I moved off into the desert and found a narrow slit of a wash near by. My first couple of trips out and about consisted of visits to a local construction site, and this was right on the edge of the desert where a new development was going up. My point here is don't think you need to toss this aside and purchase a new transmitter this is a nice RTR package from Axial. While I do have a nicer transmitter for my Nomad and SCT truck, I have yet to be crawling and think that if I had a better transmitter, I would have climbed that rock better. That said, for me the Tactic did quite well and I'm still using it as of this date. Often times people refer to these transmitters as "throw away" units due to their limited tuning options, or that they prefer their own transmitter of choice due to more functionality or style. The supplied transmitter is the Tactic TTX300, which is part of the RTR kit, and actually does just fine for its intended use. I purchased a pair of Spektrum 2s 5000 mAh / 7.4v / 30 C batteries ( SPMX50002S30H5 ) for the truck and added the required AA batteries to the transmitter. Slow and steady was the plan.īefore I launched into changing the Wraith, my first interest was to see how it performed in the factory configuration.
I had no intention of using this as a rock racer, so most modifications I had in mind where going to be oriented in developing its crawling ability. I went with the Wraith Spawn RTR based on the visual appeal, and it being a great starting point for my first crawler. I had about six runs on the battery before I made that mistake. Poof, $50 gone, and this was 100% my fault for being lazy. I did this one day by leaving my Spektrum 2s battery plugged in overnight after crawling for about an hour, thus it was slowly drained overnight beyond the point where my charger would see both lipo cells in the pack. The Wraith Spawn does not have an on/off switch, and you must unplug your battery after running, or it will slowly drain the battery and ruin it. The other currently offered version of this vehicle is the Wraith, which has a different body on the outside and a slightly different setup on electronics and a few other features such as lights ( don't care ) and a power switch ( do care ).
There are a few variants on the Wraith, including their 1.9" "scaler" trucks which are designed to look as real as possible, as well as their now discontinued version called the Poison Spyder which has a different outer body. I purchased this Axial RTR from RC Planet for $369.00 (AXIAX90045). Axial's excellent RC rock crawler / rock racer, the Wraith Spawn, is a robustly built 2.2 vehicle offer in a Ready to Run ( RTR ) platform.įor the most part, the description "RTR," is a widely accepted industry standard meaning that the vehicle has all required electronics and fully assembled, only requiring the owner to purchase separately a battery for the vehicle and provided transmitter.
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