So, this has been bugging me of and on...

[SunnyHouTX]

Who at Castle Creations is the ophidiophile? Patrick? Bernie? Joe? Perhaps its Thomas...

Edit: apologies for the typo in the title. Should be "off" and not "of"

[Bondonutz]

Anyone who owns a "Mamba" I reckon would be ?

[nitrostarter]

Maybe it has to do with the that sexy animated chick loving mamba?

[SunnyHouTX]

Well, and the sidewinder. But to be able to name ESC's after snakes, one has to have a certain level of snake-nerdiness, no?

[nitrostarter]

Is it a fear or fascination?? Thats a good question.

[SunnyHouTX]

It IS the opposite of phobia LOL

[Thomas Porfert]

I don't think it has so much to do with snakes, as so much as we've had a long history of naming our products after animals; sometimes mythical, sometimes real.

With the cars it has always been some type of snake, the Mamba and the Sidewinder. We started with the aircraft line which has the Phoenix, Thunderbird, Griffin, Pixie and Pegasus. And of course our boat controllers are the Hydra and Barracuda.

So I doubt anyone actually has a phobia about snakes, we just love naming our products after creatures and mythic animals :P

Thomas Porfert
Castle Tech Support

[nitrostarter]

Originally Posted by Thomas Porfert

I don't think it has so much to do with snakes, as so much as we've had a long history of naming our products after animals; sometimes mythical, sometimes real.

With the cars it has always been some type of snake, the Mamba and the Sidewinder. We started with the aircraft line which has the Phoenix, Thunderbird, Griffin, Pixie and Pegasus. And of course our boat controllers are the Hydra and Barracuda.

So I doubt anyone actually has a phobia about snakes, we just love naming our products after creatures and mythic animals :P

Thomas Porfert
Castle Tech Support

Well played sir!

[JThiessen]

Originally Posted by nitrostarter

Well played sir!

I can just picture the boys (and ladies) of Castle sitting in their conference room every morning with this forum on the projection screen, and all of them trying to come up with responses to our questions....

[nitrostarter]

Originally Posted by JThiessen

I can just picture the boys (and ladies) of Castle sitting in their conference room every morning with this forum on the projection screen, and all of them trying to come up with responses to our questions....

I think this forums gets their wheels spinning in every direction!

[SunnyHouTX]

Originally Posted by JThiessen

I can just picture the boys (and ladies) of Castle sitting in their conference room every morning with this forum on the projection screen, and all of them trying to come up with responses to our questions....

I can absolutely imagine that being the case

[SunnyHouTX]

Originally Posted by Thomas Porfert

So I doubt anyone actually has a phobia about snakes

Thomas, I'm implying the contrary, which is to say that somebody there has quite an affinity to snakes: ophidioPHILIA, not phobia.

But, I think your answer was directed at the core of my observation in a roundabout way, so it's all good

I found it interesting that snakes were chosen to name the car ESC's over other species, say a rhino (MMM), cheetah (MMP), and wolverine (MM) The boat and air ESCs, i can understand completely.

Discuss...

[BrianG]

The "factory" there is small enough that they could project it on the main shop wall and everyone could see/respond at the same time.

[snellemin]

We use all kind of codenames for our proto products. From islands, planets, composers, animals, cars, designer bags, etc. Drives me freakin' nuts to keep up with all of them.

Why not start off a new line of controllers with Nuts names...Peanut for a 10A ESC, Walnut for a chubby 20A ESC

[Thomas Porfert]

Bust-a-Nut for the 100 amp and What-a-Nut for the 200 amp? Sorry that was wrong :)