Castle - Make A Special Edition Monster

[Arct1k]

Jeff - Basically a 5s MM with cross drill heatsink and fan mount and switching BEC in favour of built in USB...

[jhautz]

Originally Posted by Arct1k

Jeff - Basically MM with cross drill heatsink and fan mount and switching BEC in favour of built in USB...

Yea. But with 5s support. The current MM is a bit hit or miss on running 5s with a fully charged pack. Some will start and work perfectly, others will not, and yet others will work on 5s if you turn them off and on enough times to just get the peak off of the pack and then they work perfectly on 5s. Just want to see it work on 5s properly all the time.

[Pdelcast]

Originally Posted by jhautz

Yea. But with 5s support. The current MM is a bit hit or miss on running 5s with a fully charged pack. Some will start and work perfectly, others will not, and yet others will work on 5s if you turn them off and on enough times to just get the peak off of the pack and then they work perfectly on 5s. Just want to see it work on 5s properly all the time.

The MM isn't made to handle 5S - -the back-EMF resistors and sense resistors are wrong, plus the linears are overloaded at 5S...

I'll look into making a 5s capable control board for the MM -- if you think that will be sufficient.

Thanx!

[jhautz]

Originally Posted by Pdelcast

The MM isn't made to handle 5S - -the back-EMF resistors and sense resistors are wrong, plus the linears are overloaded at 5S...

I'll look into making a 5s capable control board for the MM -- if you think that will be sufficient.

Thanx!

I'm tellin ya. I'd buy 2 right now. The MM power board with a heat sink that has a 25mm fan mount and switching BEC and the proper control board for 5s and Rx plug/CastleLink programaing. Thats a winner in my book and all I would ever need for my 1/8 track buggy.

Call it the Lil'Monster or something. Or the MM De'Lux. Or maybe the Sidewinder Monster instead of Mamba Monster

[RC-Monster Mike]

Originally Posted by Pdelcast

The MM isn't made to handle 5S - -the back-EMF resistors and sense resistors are wrong, plus the linears are overloaded at 5S...

I'll look into making a 5s capable control board for the MM -- if you think that will be sufficient.

Thanx!

Add a switching BEC and true 5s capability to the mm controller and you have a winner imo. The size is much more ideal(particularly for buggies) vs. the monster and the controller with a fan is plenty capable with some sense. I have a few of these MM controllers in buggies and truggies - running 4s and 5s. With a fan, they have never thermalled or even gotten above 130F even in hard use. I do have to discharge my 5s packs a bit to get them to work well (about 20.6 volts or so).
In reality, I think the 1/8 use less current on average vs. a comp level 1/10 touring car in race conditions - less traction and more voltage. The spikes are higher, but the average current is lower. :)

[jhautz]

I'm on board. MM, 5s capable and Switching BEC. Same footprint as MM.

Patrick, If you build it they will come.

[jhautz]

Or how about a RC-Monster - Special Edition MM with these specs. I kinda like the sound of that.

[RC-Monster Mike]

I actually spoke with Lee and one of the Castle engineers about OEMing just such a controller at the RCX show - they suggested the mamba pro was just this(except I would prefer an additional lead for link programming and fan power - easier to unplug the fan for programming vs. messing with the rx) - they didn't mention a lower current limit, though(I agree with the sentiment that this lower power handling is a bit of a disappointment). :)

[Arct1k]

Originally Posted by Pdelcast

I'll look into making a 5s capable control board for the MM -- if you think that will be sufficient.

Would be perfect for CRT .5's & buggies - To be honest all my vehicles.... x1cr, 2 crt.5's, hyper st, g3r

[SunnyHouTX]

Originally Posted by Pdelcast

The MM isn't made to handle 5S - -the back-EMF resistors and sense resistors are wrong, plus the linears are overloaded at 5S...

I'll look into making a 5s capable control board for the MM -- if you think that will be sufficient.

Thanx!

Please do! And give me enough advance notice so I can sell off all my current MMs to be replaced 1:1 with 5S MMs.