Upcoming Castle Outrunner Motors

[Sammus]

So what's the advantage of outrunners? It's been said a few times that for their size theyre not as powerful as inrunners... it cant be the kv because you could just wind up an in runner to get super low kv... so what is it then? are they somehow heaps more efficent or something?

Why do people love running them in cars so much? IT seems lik inrunners are much better suited.

[rotary rocket]

It seems to me that if outrunners have a lot of torque you could use it to your advantage and get rid of the center diff. This would save weight and should result in a more efficient overall drive line.

Of course you would pick a much lower RPM motor and you wouldn't have much flexibility in changing your speed if you use it in place of the center diff.

CC, would you be able to make your motors such that the center shaft is sticking out of both ends?

[MetalMan]

Originally Posted by Sammus

So what's the advantage of outrunners? It's been said a few times that for their size theyre not as powerful as inrunners... it cant be the kv because you could just wind up an in runner to get super low kv... so what is it then? are they somehow heaps more efficent or something?

Why do people love running them in cars so much? IT seems lik inrunners are much better suited.

rr did a pretty good job of summing up why the average outrunner user would choose an outrunner over an inrunner.

For me, it's also the uniqueness factor. TBH, I have this weird drive the almost forces me to do things differently. Just as an example, I am presently working on a belt-drive conversion of a truggy... that also will use an outrunner most likely.