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Obviously I have stirred up a hornets nest here, to be clear, I have used heaps of Castle ESC's , I had an E-Savage with a Medusa 36-60-3300 motor and Mamba Max ESC on 3s Lipo, No BEC, and that was the most solid truck, 3 yrs on it's still chiming away flawlessly. I have been vocal about issues I have had with MMM, MMP and Sidewinder SCT speedies, but a lot of that is frustration, the 3900kv Motor I have in my SCRT10 (Shortcourse motor) is a beast, brilliant item. However I don't believe in "blind love" either, if I have an esc with an issue, I'll say so, obviously sometimes a tad too bluntly.

Anyway, hooked up this Toro copy esc, it's big, go to calibrate it, identical calibration sequence to the Castle products (sus?) unlike Castle ESC's where you can adjust the neutral range when some radios won't calibrate, this doesn't, so that gremlin has been copied over as well. It will calibrate with my 4PL, but not my DX3R, and no way to get around it either. At this stage, I'll call this ESC a Castle Clone despite the different body etc. Capability wise, I think it may land short of the MMP, but the large case makes it bigger than the MMM so it's hard to position in the car.

Will be running it in my Hyper 10SC with a Leopard 36-65-2100kv motor on 4s Lipo, so will do back to back tests with this ESC and the MMP both with and without a BEC. Will be focusing on Amp draw and Durability (lots of heavy starts and stops)

Progress Score:

Castle MMP 1, China ESC, 1