Neu 1515/2Y-ICE HV80-8S 1300mah-Hyper10sc Data log
 

Forgot to click the Wattage button, it maxed at ~1100watts. Ripple was 0.76V max.
41 amps peak, 36K rpm, 600mah in 12 minutes, and it got COLDER during the run :party: Truck is right at 6Lbs track ready.
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Thats sweet on 1300mah cells.

I love having 8S 40/80C lipo's that weigh less than a 2S 6500mah battery... and last twice as long (ran the truck against a 2wd slash, he went through two 2S batts).

Efficiency is the name of the game, and I'm able to lay down some serious power.
Its running a 13T pinion now. If I throw a 15 in it'll up the amps, but no 2S rig will keep up.

very cool! I can't wait till HV is more popular and we get small HV ESCs (with data logging hopefully!).

The Phoenix ICE HV 80 for this truck is tiny :-)
And now that I see the numbers I could have gone with an HV 40 which is as small as some of the old brushed ESC's.

and they have brakes?

No they don't

exactly, no brakes yet :( I mean good land based HV ESCs with logging.

Using an air one would be a fun project later on though when I get outta school.

Yup, gotta have mechanical brakes.

I don't get why Castle will put car software on a Phoenix ICE 200 and call it a Mamba XL, but I can't have the same thing with a Phoenix ICE 100...

Oh well, I'll wait. In the mean time I've got an XL in a 1/8th buggy and an ICE HV 80 in my SC truck.

It was more a question about DrKnow's setup, as I'm pretty sure he started with an electric 10sc without mechanical brakes too.

I used all spare parts for the brakes, but I could have just as easily bought a whole transmission complete with brakes off a CRT.5 would swap right in.

I will say that I'm working on an electromagnetic disc brake using a servo-to-pwm converting IC. Both to eliminate the servo and to make the brakes small and light enough to use in my 1/10 4wd buggy.

Is a PiStix converter thingy also needed to use the Ice esc line with a Car TX?

I orininally didnt use a PiStix because with the trim maxed and the subtrim maxed I was able to "fake" the 1.1ms signal the Phoenix needs for a dead stick. Which it needs both to arm and to stop spinning the motor :-)

I ended up putting in a PiStix, just in case I end up doing away with the third channel for mech brakes. With the PiStix I can split the channel #2 for both ESC and brakes without weird trim values.

I hear ya, been there a couple times...