Sidewinder SC
 

Can anyone from Castle say when will the Sidewinder SC be available?

Tower has it marked for "late october". Can you confirm this and/or provide a more accurate prediction?

Avner.

Hi Avner!

Late October is correct. The ESCs are in production right now, and the 1410 motors are in transit. They should ship to Hobbico the week of Oct 25th.

Thanx!

Patrick

Thanks Patrick,

I'm waiting to get my hands on this system...

Avner.

$110!!!!:surprised:


for the combo!!!!@

http://www.amainhobbies.com/product_...Package-3800kV

including a blower too! What a deal!

Wired directly to the controller... So if the ESC or Motor goes bad; do you need to send the whole combo in for repair, or can you cut them apart and send the defective component?

Just a thought... :wink:

On the castle website the diagrams showed bullets on the esc and motor. Maybe a prototype photo on a-main?

:neutral:

Damn maybee it is. Thought I saw bullets on the cc site, oh well. I prefer no connectors myself but bullets do make swaps more convinient/quick since the soldering iron hides in my pitbox since the nickel batteries disapeared off my table.

Just checked the castle site and it's listed w/4mm bullets???

Don't know how accurate the a-main description is I have never heard of cnc rated bearings either.

The sidewinder SCT will have 4mm bullets ...

We thought early on that they would be too expensive, but decided it would be best to include them.

Patrick,
will the systems really be shipping next week?

Avner.

Maybe some were already shipped. I got a notice from Tower regarding order payment and the order status is now "being picked and packed in the warehouse."

On another subject, one of the spec points on the Castle site regarding how many cells can be used says:

"Controller and motor max 2S. Controller alone with motor of lower KV max = 3S."

So the controller is good to 3S like we suspected.

But what about the motor? If a 4600 is good to 3S when using with a Mamba Max or Pro, shouldn't the 1410 1Y motor be usable on 3S with a controller that has higher current handling capability, like a MMP or Monster?

Not sure if anyone saw, but on the sidewinder sct page CC have made a list of motors, and then made suggestions after each with what esc to use. The 9000kv motor has OMGWTFBBQ in the comments section, just thought that was really funny!

yep looks like a great deal to me, im sure i will buy one

Maybe the limit is not because of current handling but because of a switching speed limitation.

I think that with a 4 pole motor the ESC needs to switch power to the winding twice as many times per rev compared to a 2 pole motor.

If that is correct, then running a 4800KV 4 pole motor on 3 cells would require the same switching speed as running a 2 pole 9600KV on 3 cells or a 2 pole 4800KV on 6 cells.

Maybe Patrick could enlighten us.

Avner.