brushless mammoth st help

[Finnster]

You need something called a PiStix adapter to use plane escs generally. The thr signals are different from car radios vs air.

But honestly, if this is your first BL, I would say not to try and go too cheap and make things way to complicated and possibly unreliable. Buy cheap=buy twice.

I highly recommend just getting a Castle 2200kv combo and running that on 4 to 6S. IDK how big/hvy the truck is, but if its really heavy you may want to use a Neu 1521 instead.
The 2200 should be fine tho. Best off is the great warrantee, powerful software, and awesome service. IDK where you live, but do you really want to send a $100 esc halfway around the world for service BC you bought some knockoff esc from China?

ESC brakes are great, plus you get reverse. Reverse is really nice to have. You can get mech brakes, Ive done that, but its not worth a lot of trouble, esp if you are just bashing about.

You don't need a 2spd. A center diff is nicer to have and a BL motor does not more gears to be fast. RCM's slipperential is really nice, plus it gives a little low end slip plus some protection to the drivetrain from the low end TQ an elec motor has. If you can swing this, I would. It should fit about anywhere a std CD does.

[florianz]

Originally Posted by Finnster

You need something called a PiStix adapter to use plane escs generally. The thr signals are different from car radios vs air.

nope, never needed a pistix for those plane esc's, running them with my 40mhz fm acoms Hayabusa.

and again, the "suppo-style" esc's I had were very rugged. they all say, they're not reliable, their acceleration is bad etc. I have never experienced something like that. The breaks are just on/off, like an anchor. So that should be killing the esc when breaking, but it didn't. start-up on 1 deg. timing with the losi 4-pole is smoother then sae-car-esc I've testet recently (but I think they just did an updat on the software). with 7 deg. timing no cogging at all.

On the other hand: I used to have a "scorpion Commander 6s120a", and when changing the settings (after the first 3 batteries), it smoked, just during programming. And it's supposed to be a "quality brand". some folks here in Germany smoked MGM controllers (obsiosly used them right), and waited months for a replacement. but it's a "quality brand". We see, Marketing can do a lot...

Mech. & "electronic" Breaks have their pro's and con's, so U have to find out what is important for you. A con for mechanical breaks is for example the extra weight. on the other hand, most of the 1/5, 1/6 conversions work like that.

anyways, I don't want to hype these cheap plane esc's.

but just because it's cheap doesn't mean it's crap.