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FG101C · 03:58 PM

Wow, scroll to the bottom of the page. Hell of a deal for any former or active duty military people. Full conversion combo plus two pinions $485.04 shipped.

Any chance for a 30% off flash sale say tonight for like an hour for non military?

http://www.bagramrcclub.com/

Pdelcast · 01.15.2011, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by FG101C

Wow, scroll to the bottom of the page. Hell of a deal for any former or active duty military people. Full conversion combo plus two pinions $485.04 shipped.

Any chance for a 30% off flash sale say tonight for like an hour for non military?

http://www.bagramrcclub.com/

It's a great deal for active-duty and former military. If you have an ID card, or a DD-214, you qualify.

SGT, USAF, Patrick "RADAR" del Castillo
(honorably discharged, June 1991)

outlaw · 06:30 PM

I tested my Mamba XL on Friday on our Indoor Track.
I put the Mamba XL in my RC8 to SC10 4x4 conversion

First of all, this is just a great ESC !
I love the way, how the logging setup works and how to get the data.

My "normal" setup is

RC8
Castle Creation Mamba Max Pro
Tenshock 2240/5 3100KV
Gearing 44/14
3S Lipo 6250 mAh +60C

Track: Indoor high traction carpet track @ RC-Glashaus.de

I guess, i use the MMP close to the edge...

It's a 2KW Racer

George16 · 07:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Pdelcast

It's a great deal for active-duty and former military. If you have an ID card, or a DD-214, you qualify.

SGT, USAF, Patrick "RADAR" del Castillo
(honorably discharged, June 1991)

Patrick, I just realized you were discharged from active duty as I was coming in

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5 more months and I'll hit 20 years.

Anyway, thank you very much for the discount

brushlessboy16 · 01.16.2011, 11:39 AM

What about Others serving? Firefighters, emt's etc..

Just throwing it out there, My older sister is a firefighter.

Also, patrick- you have a pm! :)

Kirkinsb · 01.17.2011, 07:37 PM

Patrick, I contacted you about an issue I had. Your staff already has replacements in the mail to me today. I just got the Tracking number. Please tell Bernie in Tech Support thanks for his technical advice on Lipos...Tell Charles in Repair thanks for replying back to me and assuring me Castle would take care of me. You guys are absolutely TOP NOTCH. I would never considering buying any other brushless system. Castle....I am so impressed! Patrick...Thanks! -Kirk Hayes

01.18.2011, 09:00 AM

i got my MMMXL today, to tell you the truth i am a tiny bit disappointed.

It didn't come with any of the MMMXL logo'ish stickers

. just some of the yellow mamba's.

Other than that i love it so far. It is HUGE, in a good way, and the length of the wires is ridiculous. Well seeing as it is made for the baja i guess they would have to be big.

DrKnow65 · 01.18.2011, 10:09 AM

Only thing I'm not real happy with the XL I received so far is that the plastic end pieces are help in place only by the stickers on the XL, both of which are not very well stuck on....

I was happy of course to get a look inside the XL without having to separate the heat sinks

but I think I see in the layout that some of the fets are not contacting the sinks? I'll take another look in a year or so when the warranty has gone

At this point there is no real reason as the highest temp I've registered so far was 111'f

and that was with longer than average periods of pulling 3220watts

(speed runs), it will never see that kind of use running around a track.

01.18.2011, 12:02 PM

Patrick, do you have any idea about when the new Mamba XL will be available also on Hobby stores (including, for sure, RC Monster.com Store) other than on Your site ?

I'm asking this because I have to buy additional products (not Castle, sorry...) and I do prefer to make just one order to keep shipping cost as low as it possible.

Thanks in advance, Andrea.

Pdelcast · 01.18.2011, 02:01 PM

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Originally Posted by andreazinno

Patrick, do you have any idea about when the new Mamba XL will be available also on Hobby stores (including, for sure, RC Monster.com Store) other than on Your site ?

I'm asking this because I have to buy additional products (not Castle, sorry...) and I do prefer to make just one order to keep shipping cost as low as it possible.

Thanks in advance, Andrea.

Andrea,

We are working on it ... the distributors are not sure how to handle this item because it is unique -- nobody has a competing product. So they are a little wary about numbers, and are waiting for orders from dealers.

We are pushing them to take some units to test the market.

Thanx!

Patrick

outlaw · 01.18.2011, 02:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Pdelcast

So they are a little wary about numbers
Patrick

How can they worried ?
I bet, if you fill up one shop here in germany, the stock will be empty within a day

Worth a try... Send a truckload to Jakspeed-Racing.de

Since i got told, HorizonHobby have/will drop the distribution of Castle products... I hope not !

01.18.2011, 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Pdelcast

Andrea,

We are working on it ... the distributors are not sure how to handle this item because it is unique -- nobody has a competing product. So they are a little wary about numbers, and are waiting for orders from dealers.

We are pushing them to take some units to test the market.

Thanx!

Patrick

Well, quite strange position (that of distributors)....if they don't make an initial stock, they probably will not have any idea about potential sale volume of the XL (unless the buyers place many backorders on this - very unlikely to happen )...its a catch 22

Well, I'll wait some weeks more and then I'll decide...

Bye, Andrea.

Riko · 01.18.2011, 03:36 PM

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looking forward to this ;)
We already indeed see some websites adding the products at their salesoffers
http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXAPNT

They seem to stock the ESC at tower

01.18.2011, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Riko

They seem to stock the ESC at tower

Got it

Riko, a big thanks to You ! I had checked TH just half an hour ago and the Mamba XL status was "On Order"...

Bye, Andrea.

Shonen · 01.18.2011, 04:01 PM

oh yes, Tower has it in stock in limited quantities, and it's Free Shipping! (but as always, not to Hawaii

) I just placed my order, get yours before it's out of stock! If you add anything else over 1c to your shopping cart you can use the $50 off $300 coupon too, use 014CY...used to be $60 in 2010, oh well.