MMM V2 Beta Test
 

I would like to thank Patrick and the Castle crew for all their hard work!
It is wonderful someone has finally produced a GREAT 1/8 scale speed controller.

I was one of the luck ones that got to test the Beta Monster version 2. I just received it last Saturday. I had it on the car and running in just a few minutes.

I down loaded all the setting off of my old Monster and applied them to the new Monster V2.

The first thing you will notice is the Monster V2 comes with the female bullets on the ESC. Which I thought I would really like, but it has turned out to be my only complaint. The 6.5mm bullets look really neat, but it just adds another connection and the wires extend up about a 1/4” above the ESC. The body on my car did not fit until I bent the wires really hard. It requires more room. I think soldering directly the bullets on the board is the real answer.

The second thing that scared me is the fan only ran until the ESC initialization was over then it shut off. I first thought it was broke. I decided to run it anyway and after running it, I noticed the fan was running when I took off the car body. This was a brilliant idea to control the fan by the temp. of the ESC. This will make the fans last a lot longer. With my 6s setup the fan hardly ever runs. Good job Castle!

I thought since I transferred my setting the car would run exactly the same, but there must be some changes in the ESC controls because my car seemed to have a little more braking power with the same setting. I just lowered it a little more and it acted about the same.

I ran the car all day Sunday and never had any problems. With over 2 hours of really hard track time, I’m convinced all the problems are solved! Next weekend I have a race and give an update on the Monsters’ performance.

I have been running 1/10 scale electric cars for a long time and I never thought anyone would get a sensorless 1/8 scale ESC to have the same sensitive high resolution control, but Castle Creations has done it!!! It is truly awesome!:yipi:

Thank you,
Earl

Very cool...the update we needed.

I'm jealous. :diablo:

I'm glad everything seems to be good so far. I like that the fan runs during the the ESCs initialization process because it will be easy to tell if the fan's still working. Did you happen to check if the bec voltage was still set at 5.5 volts like the v1 becs?

Thats great to hear that it is working so well. :yes: Only makes me more excited to get mine...

They need to send me one so I can try it in my BPP truggy with the 1521/1Y. I will also wait a bit to get the V2.

Sweet, thanks for posting

Sounds like things are looking up! Thanks for your report!

I can't wait for the e-mail that says my controller is in the mail. I'm sure if this I had a working MMM I wouldn't have 3 new cars now.

I think I remember Patrick saying that you can send the MMM back and get the wires soldered directly to the board.

With the 6.5mm sockets, there's no need to send it back to them inorder to solder it to the board. I'd just do what Sparky said: solder it directly to the sockets. And besides, those connectors will act like an extra heatsink since they'll suck a bit of heat from the board and dissipate it with air flow. I won't be using heat shrink on them for that purpose. Heatsinking will be very limited though and the whole thing is simply one big heatsink in it's own right. :)

I'll be ordering one as soon as it is available....God's willing! :)

i think i`m going to order to combos now !! 2200kv for the LST2 and 2650KV for the revo , GOOD JOB CC :)

You can also solder the wires into the male plugs at 90 degrees to the plug if you take the dremel to the side of the plug.

Good to hear. It almost makes me wish my V1 would go belly up :)

Hi Sparky,

Thank u for the review. I'm patiently waiting for 2 to ship. 1 of them from Mike. When i get it, I will give them their share of torture in hot & humid conditions with ambient temperature in excess of 32 deg C at near 100% humidity. If they survive, then I think we have a winner on our hands.

Having said that, my dead V1 did survive an hour long torture but died silently in the next run no doubt due to the famous gremlin.

Regards,
Joe Ling