VXL3s Tekin 17.5

[Toyman]

Will the traxxas VXL3s run a tekin 17.5 brushless motor, the sensor wire thing has me wondering, I've never ran sensored before, got me scratchin my head. Thanks in advance Steve

[suicideneil]

You dont have to have the sensor harness plugged in, the esc ( sensorless ones of any sort ) will just run the motor in sensorless mode; a sensored only esc has to run sensored motors though ( like the novak stuff ), it cant run sensorless motors.

The tekins ( I think ) and mmpro are hybrid sensored and sensorless escs though, best of both worlds.

i tried to run it before, low kv sensored motors do not like to start up when ran sensorless, the vxl does have a sensor port tho, so it might work good, might not, after all it is a traxxas

[rootar]

i run a 17.5 nemisis motor with the vxl esc (with sensor wire hooked up) and it works great! very surprising actaully.

I run a Novak 8.5 sensored and it works very good. I see no reason why it wouldn't work.

[fastbaja5b]

I find the VXL3s is a great ESC, very robust, waterproof and happy to run sensored or sensorless.