Fighter Cat Racing, 16S 150A :D

Damn, what a nice esc. :great:

Is this the boat or the car version? The car is 16S 200A.

Did you pick up a programmer too?

I think this might be his V2 but yeh, it's the car version. It says 150A on the bottom of the ESC and it says 3S-17S too. I got the USB link from him and a turnigy BEC as well. I downloaded the software to program it but haven't had a chance to bring the truck in to sit it on my desk. You need the motor hooked up to hear chimes while programming.

Have you tested the Fightercat yet?

funny thing is I was going to order one and that same day I got my notification that CC shipped my XL2. :surprised:

It is a car version and 200amp. Fighter Cat Brandon ran out of 200amp stickers and used 150amp stickers. Both versions can handle 17s, but he markets the car version as 16s for some head room.

Be careful on your first run, don't gear it too high. Check out this thread. These esc's may not be as good as we hoped.
http://www.hpibajaforum.com/forum/sh...=117438&page=2

I don't mean to offend that guy in the vids too much but IMO he is a bit of a meat head. What he was doing with his E-Baja was pretty stupid and would be in almost any other car. Constant jabs of full throttle on high traction surfaces is going to send the amp draw through the roof and build heat very quickly. Also spinning the wheels at full throttle on dirt and then crossing over to the bitumen is just insane. In a heavy car like that with no slipper clutch again current spikes would be huge. That ESC was working overtime.

I hate people that drive electric RC's like that. They treat the throttle like an ON/OFF switch with nothing in between. Stupid IMO. While you can get away with doing some of that in a smaller scale I doubt any ESC would last long in a large scale car with that kind of treatment.

At least he has fitted a slipper clutch now so that might help but that guy really needs to change his driving style. Jabbing the full throttle like that constantly he is going to go through ESC's fast.

Well, I guess you hate me, because I drive just like that. With my brushless baja. With all of my r/c's. I am a basher, and a power junkie. I have gone through 3 sets of rear tires crossing over from dirt to bitumen and my MambaXL (not XL2, I never sent either of mine in) has stayed cool calm and collected. It was designed to be driven by idiots, and that's how I drive mine- like an idiot.

I bash all my r/c's this way. With a properly geared setup the esc will handle any torture you throw at it. That's why we check temps often with a fresh build, and adjust accordingly.

It wasn't his driving that killed the esc, it was a bad esc, and the manufacturer suspects a bad batch of capacitors is to blame.

Well I am glad you said it.

Ha! There is no shame in my game:lol:

My point was that Castle bashes on their esc's in testing because they know most consumers will. (I have Castle in mine, and realize he was running a fighter cat)

I make sure of a proper cool running setup and do have some common sense.

I seriously doubt his driving style had anything to do with the failure as you suggested. If it did, it is a very poor esc.

Anymore updates to this truck?

Thinking the same thing. I want to go out and bash them...

Looking at the dimensions of the stock purple spacer:

8mm x 12mm x 14mm (length)

Do you have any dimensions you can provide for your spacer? I am guessing that it may be 16mm or 18mm on the outer diameter

In a pinch, could you use say two spacers or bearings in say the following dimensions:

8mm x 22mm x 7mm

and come close to accomplishing the same thing that you did in your opinion?

Guess he had to much fun driving to post anymore? Lol

Thats what happens to all of us!