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Originally Posted by pipeous
The Hercules was designed and produced by a buddy of mine. He was my heli trainer actually. We worked together on a few things. I test and help with a few of their products. Jimmy likes to blow stuff up. He ragged me hard for having a castle bec in my buggy. He was telling me how easy it was to make them fail, but I only run a 94359 and it has been good.
The Hercules is a killer bec http://www.western-robotics.com/RCproducts.html
I was going to do all the soldering for them at one point (anything that doesn't go in the oven). I still remember when we started selling bec's and failsafes and the boards were hand cut and drilled LOL. man it's come a long way since then. He has about the same setup in his 2 car garage as does castle in their shop pics they showed a while back..... and he does stuff for Honda, Toyota and Sherline mills as well now.... all this from a guy that used to program robotics stuff and I talked him into making rc gear because he's a bloody genius |
Don't get me wrong, I really like their products too. I have their ultra high V BEC and
it tested very well. And it doesn't look chintzy either. It's just that the CC BEC is a really good BEC for the money (high output, efficient, and programmable)...
if it doesn't fail. That's the only "gotcha" really; if it fails, it takes out your servos and receiver. At least you know what the problem is if the CC BEC fails -It's hard to miss smoking receiver and servos!
