Castle - Make A Special Edition Monster

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Originally Posted by lutach

I even went as far as contacting and sending 1500 MOSFETs to a company in China to make me a 15S car controller and they never did one so you know the problems they are facing. All they make is Airplane and Helicopter controllers. I know they are using the Atmel's ATMEGA8L-16AU MCU and some car controllers that I have uses the same MCU. My guess is they are still having trouble with the software.

If they are using the Atmel part, they are likely using either stolen Jeti software, or stolen Schultze software. Both companies had their software compromised and copied in China. Both companies have tried unsuccessfully to stop imports of controllers with their stolen software. (I can't imagine how much money it would take to go after these companies... they setup shop and only do business out of Hong Kong where they are shielded by the Chinese government.)

So it's unlikely that they have any resources to modify the software for RC car use.

It's funny, most of the controller coming out of China identify themselves as a Jeti-18 (regardless of the type/size of the controller) when connected to Jeti's field programmer. Several others ID themselves as Schultze. I've yet to see a Chinese or Taiwanese controller that has decent software that was not stolen from another company.