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Old 25-03-2019
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So I am dragging my Schumacher Cat 2000 up to date on the electrics.
Can anyone suggest a Brushless ESC & speed controller? I currently run either a 13x2 or 14x2 brushed motor, so I am after a brushless that will give me a similar speed. (Don't want to go to fast spare parts are hard to find )
I am also running 5000nimh batteries at the moment so I would like an ESC that runs nimh and lipo as will probably buy Lipo later in the year or next. I have been advised that I should be looking at sensor motors as they are better than sensorless.

Any help / advice would be much appreciated.
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Old 25-03-2019
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17.5T brushless is around the old 27t brushed and 13.5T brushless about the old 19t brushed. So you are probably looking around the 9.5T-10.5T range for those motors.
Brushless work better with Lipos and most brushless ESCs work with Lipos.

Yes run sensored.

10.5T or 13.5T brushless may be better as some vintage classes have motor limits and you may want to race it
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Old 26-03-2019
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Nice one thanks for the reply.
I run at Bury think its a 10.5T limit on the vintage cards so will look into that.
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Old 26-03-2019
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Yep 10.5 limit at bury for vintage.
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Old 28-03-2019
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So thinking about buying this ESC & motor what are peoples thoughts?

ESC
https://www.modelsport.co.uk/index.p...duct_id=425021

Motor
https://www.modelsport.co.uk/skyrc-a...roducts/437077
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Old 29-03-2019
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Can’t comment on the motor but that esc is a bargin, good solid and reliable. Only difference between that and the Hobbywing v2.1 that I can tell it the lack of adjustability as it has no ‘turbo’ feature in the firmware but it may be possible to flash it with a different firmware if needed. I ran these in my kids cars for ages with zero issues and still have them as spares.
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Old 29-03-2019
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Cool, today is pay day so might have to treat myself to a brushless set up.
The game has definitely changed since 2001 when I last raced properly lol, was none of this firmware, or turbo on speed controllers. What does the turbo feature do? Does this let the motor run faster than its suppose to for a short while or something?
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Old 29-03-2019
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With a sensored brushless motor, the timing can be altered on the fly by the esc.

Boost - increases the timing over the entire rev range, amount adjustable.

Turbo - increases the timing only at when certain criteria are met - normally when full throttle is applied for a certain amount of time. Useful for long straights.

You can use a combination of both so say boost set to 5 degrees advance over the entire rev range, and 10 degrees advance turbo after full throttle has been applied for more than 0.3 of a second.

there's a few more tweaking options too but that is it in a nutshell.

I also ran one of those Quicruns for a year in a 4WD with an 8.5, 7.5 and 6.5 with zero issues either.
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Old 29-03-2019
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Nice one, cheers for explaining.
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