Sensibly prices ESC with Brushless and Lipo capability....

[MrBig]

I'm playing around with an old Tamiya TL01 with a view to making a car park drift wagon out of it. I need to swap out the MSC with something a bit more modern. I suspect at some point I will want to go brushless and run a Lipo so no point buying an ESC without that capability.

Can anyone recommend one? (With reverse please.)

Ta

Edit: just realised my autocorrect faux pas in the title. Arse.

[MrBig]

I was thinking of something like this:

http://www.modelsport.co.uk/hobbywing-quicrun-1060...

But I've just seen this.... http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=...
Hardly seems worth bothering with brushed stuff at that money. Unless there's a flaw I've missed?

[iiyama]

Model cars arn't really my thing bud but 3300kv? Whats the gearing in the car?

[MrBig]

Don't know to be honest, but is it not a matter of changing the pinion? What's the relevance of the kV rating? I'm not very familiar with brushless motors!

[defblade]

I've ordered several times with amainhobbies and never been hit with import taxes... just saying

[C0ffin D0dger]

Have a look at HobbyKing, most of their stuff is reasonably priced and works well.

By the way you do know that ESCs are either for brushless or brushed motors, not seen one that'll do both.

[Magic919]

3300kV is 3300 revs per volt. Multiply that by the voltage of your LiPo.

[russy01]

C0ffin D0dger said:

Have a look at HobbyKing, most of their stuff is reasonably priced and works well.

By the way you do know that ESCs are either for brushless or brushed motors, not seen one that'll do both.

They are available. Tamiya do one, TBLE-02, handy piece of kit come as standard with Tamiya assembly kits nowadays.

As for HobbyKing, I have had nothing but bad experience with my very recent dealing with them. Found them arrogant, slow and their products tacky - the only good thing was the price. But I suppose you get what you pay for....

[MrBig]

russy01 said:

They are available. Tamiya do one, TBLE-02, handy piece of kit come as standard with Tamiya assembly kits nowadays.

As for HobbyKing, I have had nothing but bad experience with my very recent dealing with them. Found them arrogant, slow and their products tacky - the only good thing was the price. But I suppose you get what you pay for....

Indeed. My first exposure to the 'new' generation of ESC's is in fact the TBLE-02 in the lunchbox kit I bought from you a few weeks ago. Obviously this is not the norm!

Thanks all for the input, have to do some gearing calculations.

[C.A.R.]

Magic919 said:

3300kV is 3300 revs per volt. Multiply that by the voltage of your LiPo.

Precisely this, 3300kv should be fine in a TL01 with a small pinion.

The best value brushless setup has to be the Speed Passion brushless combo from RCMart. $49 for an ESC and motor. The setup is a non-sensored type but the ESC supports sensored motors too, down to 10.5 turns from memory.

USB programmable, plenty quick and mine have been faultless (I ended up buying a second one). Don't worry about ordering from RCMart either, they're well established and postage is very quick to the uk.

[MrBig]

C.A.R. said:

Precisely this, 3300kv should be fine in a TL01 with a small pinion.

The best value brushless setup has to be the Speed Passion brushless combo from RCMart. $49 for an ESC and motor. The setup is a non-sensored type but the ESC supports sensored motors too, down to 10.5 turns from memory.

USB programmable, plenty quick and mine have been faultless (I ended up buying a second one). Don't worry about ordering from RCMart either, they're well established and postage is very quick to the uk.

Awesome, thank you. What you end up paying for shipping and duty etc.?

[Dgr90]

Hobbyking have been terrible for me - delivery took 3-4 weeks, awful customer service trying to chase orders.

Giant Shark have been great (Though I make/fly foam planes, not cars so dont know what thier stock is like for cars).

[C.A.R.]

I suggested the Speed Passion combo last night but was unable to check availability on my phone. Unfortunately it looks to have sold out at the moment (possibly Christmas rush).

But regarding shipping, that particular item qualifies for free shipping, making it without-doubt the cheapest combo on the market (which is still decent!)

The PC software isn't bad either, better than trying to use the program card anyway.

[hantsxlg]

hobbyking has been fine for me. I think the key is to only order stuff that shows as in stock in the UK warehouse. Otherwise the feedback seems to be it can take forever.