Closer look at Losi Xcelorin 1:8 esc

[snellemin]

I too was impressed in how the Losi ESC was put together. Now other ESC's have copied the same concept.
Mine ran strong until a firmware update and poof it went.

[MindThoughts]

I'm going to be giving this Xcelorin 1/8th scale esc another run. Is anyone still running their Xcelorin 1/8th scale esc? And if so- are you having any trouble with this model esc to date?

I've deactivated the reverse, and I plan to run this esc with minimal brake setting- I'm not certain of the excact percentage I'll set the brakes to, I'll have to test this setting at the track.

PS. If anyone has been running this model esc without any problems- please post your experience and settings onto this thread. Thank you in advance.

Note: I sent my Mamba Monster ESC to Castle Creation because the case seperated(from now on I'll run a zip tie around the case holding the top and bottom of the case together- castle recemmends) and pulled the wires out of the bottom of the cercuite board- and in the meantime- I thought to give the Excelorin esc some track time.

Note: The last time I saw Jeremy Kortz(a few weeks ago) 1/8th scale Ofna Hyper 9E, Jeremy was still running the Xcelorin 1/8th scale Electronic Speed Control- with the 1700kv Excelorin Motor and the Losi 4cell 25c LiPo(Hard Case) battery. I did not ask Jeremy Kortz if he has had any trouble with the Excelorin esc, but hope to ask this question if and when I see Jeremy again. In fact, the main reason I'm willing to give this esc another run is seeing how well the motor and esc work in Jeremy Kortz races at West Coast RC Raceway(Indoor Clay Track in La Mirada, CA), Though I'm very interested to know if Jeremy has had to have this model speed control serviced- and if so- how often.

I had bad luck with both of mine, which is a shame since it was nice when it worked.

Got the 2100 combo a year ago, put it in my E-XXL, and got 10-15 minutes of driving out of it before it would just stutter when starting from a stand still.

Six weeks later It came back(new ESC same motor), and it now worked for about 5 months of little use(winter season). Finally during the first race of the season back in February the new one stopped working. The internal BEC would shut down after 4 minutes, and as I tried to localize the problem, the the period of time between failures kept going down. In the end it would power up, and all LED's would go on when applying throttle/brake, but no movement from motor.


Eight weeks after that I was given a full refund, and now have a 80A xerun ESC.

[MindThoughts]

Thank you for the information CarstenL. I very much appreciate it.

PS. If anyone else has had either good or bad experiences with their Xcelorin esc, please talk about what happen- and what you did to resolve the problems- if any.

Note: The Losi Xcelorin 1/8th scale esc is still one of the best looking esc's made, and I'm very curious if Losi/Horizon will re-release a newer version of this electronic speed control at some point in time. I do hope Losi is working on a new improved 1/8th scale esc- and if it looks similar to this first model- that would be quite nice indeed.