New Castle Products: X

[Pdelcast]

First units shipped Friday!!!

More shipping today!

[nitrostarter]

Patrick will these new units be making into the RTR vehicles from Traxxas? I'm sure they would love to advertise the brushless Maxx and Revo as waterproof.

[ruudxd]

They already do that, they have the MMM2 in but then in a blue case:

https://traxxas.com/products/models/...less?t=details

[Pdelcast]

Originally Posted by nitrostarter

Patrick will these new units be making into the RTR vehicles from Traxxas? I'm sure they would love to advertise the brushless Maxx and Revo as waterproof.

I'd love to get the X series into Traxxas vehicles, but I can't get any response from Traxxas.

I've been trying to get someone at Traxxas to return phone calls/emails for weeks. /shrug

[nitrostarter]

Never mind... I'm behind the times.

[Kcaz25]

That's so crazy! I am sorry to hear this.

[mwe-maxxowner]

I'm so excited about this esc. I tend to do different things with my vehicle periodically, for example sct to truggy to monster truck to trail truck to speed demon to bored to something else.

So, when I purchase an esc, I love for it to be capable of anything. I've wanted a sensored mamba monster for some time. I have a g force 2250 sensored motor I tried to run in a telluride off of a mmp, but it drew too many amps. Now I'll have a sensored option that already works with all the castle link stuff I have.

I am also hoping the telemetry stuff can work with traxxas stuff and the tqi linked to my phone?

[Lizard]

There is some logged data on the brand new ESC already. Is that some kind of testrun on a bench? Looks interesting.

[Dragonfueled]

Hi just got to play with my monster x and have a few questions.

I did the kv test on my 2650 and it came up as 3250. Wouldn't that make the motor a 1600 kv motor? That was with no pinion just the motor spinning. It's a new castle 2650.

Does it matter what I set torque control to on the castle link when I assign the aux wire to torque control?
Or does setting the aux wire ser to torque control overide Whatever I have it set on the castle link.

On the aux wire it seems to work from neutral to full negative travel. Does positive travel do anything? Like is neutral basically torque control disabled and full negative travel full torque control?

[Thomas Porfert]

What you are seeing is the testing done to the controller during the production process. After the board is populated and the wires attached it goes to "first test". We run the motor in reverse with no load and then forward on a 50 amp load for at least 5 seconds.

After the case and labels are attached and the ESC is potted (waterproofed) it goes in for "second test". We apply 20 then 30 volts and then run the same power test as before.

The last test is the low voltage cut-off test. You can see in the 3rd session where the voltage slowly steps down and then cuts off.

This is done to every single ESC that we manufacture.

Thomas Porfert
Tech Support
Castle Creations

Originally Posted by Lizard

There is some logged data on the brand new ESC already. Is that some kind of testrun on a bench? Looks interesting.

[Lizard]

This is what the help text in the CastleLink software says:

Torque Control Adjustment
The controller's torque limit is controlled by the AUX wire signal. The torque control is scaled from 0.1 at 1.1ms signal received on the AUX wire to 5.0 at 1.9ms. Torque control is disabled when the input exceeds 1.9ms. If the AUX wire becomes disconnected, the controller will use the torque limit set in Castle Link.

It depends on your radio make and model what the 3rd channel does. And of course how it is configured. The range for "servo signals" is usually from around 1.0ms to 2.0ms (depends on make and model, there is no real standard). E.g. the throttle channel gives 1.0ms at full brake, 1.5ms at neutral and 2.0ms at full throttle.

This box can read out the signal from the receiver channels and show the ms values, makes it a lot easier, sometimes it's hard to tell from the manual what the extra channels do exactly.
http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/s...ogram_Box.html



Here is the log already on the Monster X:

[Dragonfueled]

Ahh ok so I guess .2 to 5.0 is the common settings for torque control. I'll set mine at like 8 in the castle link to give me a nice range if I want less torque control by disconnecting the wire. And I'm using a 4pls futaba

Anyone do a kv test and get weird numbers like me?

[Dr_T]

Originally Posted by Lizard

Here is the log already on the Monster X:

Cool you got yours already! Will try and pick mine up at Customs next week. Looking forward to your first impressions.

I remember my XL2 had some bench log on it too. What's interesting is that yours shows max Voltage 32.3V?

[Dragonfueled]

Maybe it's me but wow the start up is really smooth. My old monsters would kinda leap forward from a start. This one has a nice slow almost sensored like start.
Torque control works better to. Old monster had a weird delay in power where this one is consistent . So far I really like the small improvements Over the old monster.

Is there a way to know what number torque control I'm using when using the aux wire to control it? will the controller remember what setting it was on when I plug into my laptop?

[Lizard]

What firmware where you running on the old Mamba Monster, dragonfueled?

From my experience, v1.24 is quite smooth, between 1.24 and 1.45 it was cogging pretty bad, from 1.45 on it got a lot better but still not as smooth as the v1.24. If it's as smooth as the old v1.24 that would be really cool.


Dr.T: Yeah, it arrived pretty quickly.
Have also seen the 32V in the log and hoped for 7s. But there is no throttle applied during that time, maybe that is for a reason.

Really cool that Castle seems to do a benchtest on every ESC before selling it.