The C50 14.4 Hacker motors are nice. Pops wheelies like nothing in my crt.5. Plenty of fun in my Rustler.
Having played with the C50 L Hacker and Plettenberg motor, I have to say that both are near identical in my GTP. The Tekno neu's that I have used have uber chassis twisting torque, but spools up a bit slower.

Just wanted to let some people know. I saw a brand new Lehner 2250 Hi-amp motor on ebay today. Not sure what turn it is.
hope this helps.. :)

as mentioned in my previous post i had a hacker that i hadnt tried yet that i finally got put in my buggy and i am very impressed. much more so that the lehner i tried.

i am wondering though. i have been hearing that if the load is too light that a motor will run hot. could it be that the reason my lehner ran hot was becuase the load was too small? i mean, i was running a lehner 2250 in a truggy. i thought this would be fine but i dont know. any thoughts?

Ryu, I'd say the 2240 was not loaded properly if it ran hot. Those motors work well in 1/5, so a 1/8 truggy, unless you're doing speed runs, is a little on the light side. If you can get your hands on a 1950, with an appropriate kV, that would work much better. I had a Basic XL 2800 kV in my aluminum Rustler and it ran hot on 4s, even geared for 80mph. I didn't want to go any faster, though. :smile:

Definately, especially if it was a Hi Amp like yours... Have you ever measured the amp draw from your setup... Ryu James, I had tried your 2250 in a 5th scale on 6S and the motor was not hot at all.. only the batteries and ESC were... Only reason I knew this was my first 2280 Hi-Amp I had it in an E-maxx, and I couldn't figure out why it was getting hot so fast.. but after some reading and testing, I know that the Hi-Amp motors are just amazing. If you had gotten the regular 2250, you're setup probably would've been cool.. Had a 1950-7-HA in a Cen Matrix Truggy, and it was great.. no heat issues at all...

Back in the day I had a 1930-5/ 9 wind... Had it soldered for 9 Wind and ran 18 cells on it... it had no heat issues powering a 15Lb Maxx back then...

yeah, it must have been just the setup. i didnt even realize it was the hi amp version either. i didnt know there was a hi amp and a regular at the time i bought it. i did like the build of the motor though. how where the wires extrude it is sealed off tight, unlike the neus. however, i wish they used a universal mounting pattern that was like the neus. anyway, i will have to try another lehner when i come across a good deal. i am always checking ebay.

Check eBay.de, sometimes they've got deals over there. http://modellbau.shop.ebay.de/RC-Mod...=p3286.c0.m282
Just mail them if they want to ship to the US or whereever you live...

I just picked up a 2280-13 non Hi-Amp version... and power was nothing comparable to the 2280-6 HiAmp... Also just arrived are 2 neus, 1515 1.5Y 1500KV & a 1509 2.5D 2700KV.. this time the shafts looked good, and one had the flat spot on it already.. but both were missing the bushing for the wires again, but I just put my own nylon tubing on there.. edges are sharp... I have yet to try these two...

I check out the Ebay germany all the time... I'm still watching that 2250 motor...

I can't find any 2250 motor? Only a 2240...

Cr*p.. I missed it... only went for $225 hi amp version too... and brand new..

http://cgi.ebay.com/MIP-New-Lehner-B...d=p3286.c0.m14

OMG!! I can't really afford it and I don't even need it, but I would've bought that... :lol: That's like 60% off.........

I put in a bid, would have loved that motor for my 8s savage, but really didn't want to be out 225 no matter how good a deal that was. :cry:

$225 would've been peanuts for that motor... :) oh well, there are always deals..

I know I know. 225 for basically a 1527 motor. Would have been perfect kv too. I'm trying to divest some of my rc gear as it is, and I just threw a some cash into converting my Sav to BL in the first place, and I need to sell off the nitro stuff, and some RCs I don't use anymore. The other thing was that the mounting diameter is different, so I would need another mount.

OH well, the 80mm medusa has been working well, but the support for the Neus is a lot better, so that might be a better option. What an awesome motor tho.

as previously posted i run neu in all my setups but have recently tried both lehner and hacker motors. i didnt really like the lehner (but may have been due to setup) and i loved the hacker motor....until 2 nights ago. during race night i was 4 minutes into my first race and i felt something really binding on my car so i pulled off the track and inspected things. it appeared to be in the center diff. but when i removed the motor it was apparent that the motor had failed. it would not rotate smoothly and had a grinding and notchy feel. i was compeltely pissed. needless to say i will only be buying Neu motors from now on. not sure what happened with the hacker. it ran cool, the load and gearing seemed good. i really loved it until it failed. i have put my Neus through much more abuse than this hacker saw and have never had a Neu have a single issue. anyway, just thought i would share.

My Hacker experience was the same, but my endbell came off as the bearings failed so rather than put it back together I shot it and bought a Neu. Been running the Neu for several months now and it's been incredible! No problems what-so-ever.

IDk, it can happen to the best of them. MY 1515 had its rotor seperate only after a few hrs of use. OTOH, it was easy and cheap to send to Neu, they fixed it for free and I had i back in two weeks. HArd to beat that service.

That Lehner would have been awesome, but a 1527 is not that much more than the BIN of $225 that the 2250 went for. However, if something ever did go wrong, the price diff would get eaten up quickly. I have a LMT 1920 that failed a yr ago I have to send back. Between customs, expensive shipping and no guarantees on the repair costs, I am having a hard time spending $20 to ship it to Ger just to find it needs $70 worth of repair. F' it, the medusa I replaced it with cost less than that. ('course they are out of business too now..... :( )

Great talks of Customer service is what made me buy the Neus I have as well... I'm sure if Lehner's were based here, their customer services would just be as good as Neu... Just too bad they're way across the Ocean..