Kinetic/Ballistic Systems

[NovakTwo]

Originally Posted by lutach

Castle's and Tekin's are publicly posted in this and another forum. Their rating is more realistic and I like to use it as a max continuous that the ESC will handle. We all know there's no way a ESC so small can provide a full continuous 100A+ load. I mainly use it to determine a safe and reliable full throttle of the line rating. Now, depending on the application, a ESC will push a bit more AMPs, but it'll be for a couple of seconds or less. Example, one of the ESCs I have here is rated for 100A and I've used it in my dragster and saw a burst AMP of 170A+ for less then a second. The same ESC I used in 12th scale racing in a small track and saw an avg. of 15A during a 5 minute heat.

Links, please

[lutach]

Originally Posted by NovakTwo

Links, please

Here's a link for the Castle products:

http://www.castlespecialprojects.com...ntrollers.html

Now the rating for the MM Pro might be with the older FETs they had or it might be just a safer rating to avoid people going over what the ESC is actually rated for.

This is what I found for Tekin, but Jim has said the specs in rc-monster or rctech, but I'll search for it and post it.

SPECS: Controls: Forward/Brake/Reverse
ON Resistance: 0.00005 Ohms (brushed fwd mode)
0.00015 Ohms (brushless mode)
0.00015 Ohms (brushed fwd/rev mode)
Input Voltage: 4 - 9 Cells, 2 - 3S Lipo
BEC 6.0 V / 3.0 A
Motor Limit: Brushed and Brushless, no limit
Throttle Profiles: 1-7
Max Current: Brushed Forward, 312amps / 624amps (R1 / R1 Pro)
Brushless per Phase: 104amps / 208amps (R1 / R1 Pro)

One thing that I was thinking is to see if Novak, Castle and Tekin to form some sort of standard rating based on data from in-house testing and race pace with some sort of data logger available on the market (Novak and Eagle Tree for example). Either make a website or post it in various forums and hopefully others will join in and end the higher ratings. Even though they are your competitors, it would be nice to join together to form the first hobby industry standard system of ratings. The some one will have to figure out how to do the same for lipos .

[JERRY2KONE]

Now thats what I am talking about. Sure there may be some resistance in cooperating with competitors, but in the long run it is better for the industry to have some kind of standard to work and choose from when shopping for these items. Great suggestion Lutach. There needs to be some level of trust built up between to MFR and the customer base. Besides its not like you are sharing secrets or anything like that. You are merely sharing a standard measuring platform that we can all understand and use for comparison. Why not?? This is great stuff guys.