Here is an excerpt from an email exchange I was having with tech support at CC. I was inquiring about the MM that died on me moments after plugging it in for the very first time. They inquired about the motor I was trying to run, and told me that the MM was not set up for other motors. Just the MM motors. I then questioned why this was not documented anywhere and why they were selling the ESCs as stand alone units if this was the case. Apparently they are not recommending using any motors other than theirs until the next software update. But, they cant tell me when that will be.
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I also agree that we should be informing customers that the Mamba Max ESC is tuned to the Max motor and might not work well with other motors. On the aircraft side of your business we pride ourselves in the fact that our Phoenix line of controllers will work with almost all motors out there, and work better than a same brand controller will work with a same brand motor.
But with the Max controller our engineer's fine tuned the ESC to pull every last bit of power and efficiency out of our motor. This tuning involved compensating for a specific motor's inductance and resistance and well as setting a specific dynamic timing range and tuning for our two pole slotless motor. All motors had different characteristics.
My prior statement about specific tuning was general; in fact a Lehner is close in design to our motor and will work much better with our ESC the way it is than say a Plettenberg or Neu motor. But it will not be optimized. We will be coming out with a software release that compensates for a motors specifics like our aircraft controllers do which will allow our Mamba Max ESC to work well with motors other than our own.
Bernie Wolfard
Product Support Supervisor
Castle Creations
235 S Kansas Ave
Olathe, KS 66061
913-390-6939 Ext 123
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