Motor brakes or mechanical?

[E-Revonut]

I don't want to start a war here but I just checked ShaunJohnson's profile. He is 16 and by the looks of it the only thing he has with BL is a VXL Rustler and he only joined the forum in November. Most likely he has missed a lot of the technical information that has been provided by Patrick and doesn't have to much experience with high powered BL systems. Of course this is all speculation on my part but as I already stated I will take patrick's word that regenative braking is used. Also I'm sure that a prius uses regenative braking as well. I built DC motors for 5 years, 5"-11" armature diameter brushed motors. The company I worked for was pretty small at about 12 employees so I was pretty well kept in the loop about what was going on ( I was one of the first few employees that helped get the company going) We also dealt with controllers for these motors, most of what we did was for golf carts and neighborhood electric cars such as GEM cars and all of them used regenative braking!

Sorry for hijacking the thread, sort of! But essentially ESC brakes should give longer runtimes because braking puts some energy back into the battery. No matter how small this amount is it is still better than a servo that will take energy to brake.