Anyone have experience with cheap 12s ESCs?

[lincpimp]

Here is my take on it.

You need a good radio, something like a m11 with alot of adjustments for the throttle channel. M11 is also good cause it has a permanently slaved 4th channel for mech brakes.

You need a pistix to convert the throttle signal.

Of course you need mech brakes. Given the avialability of the MMM I see the application for these escs for 5th scale stuff. So you should have mech brakes that will stop properly already. With the baja and other 5th scales you can get mech front brakes too. Reverse is not an option, unless you have a mech reverse setup, which I have not seen for 5th scale.

With the radio adjustments, you can get great startup. My old savage that I ran a 60amp hv esc with a 14xl on 8s I used some expo adjustments to get the startup nice and smooth.

I had a pair of those k force escs that I had planned to use with a pair of neu 1521 motors in a baja 5b. Never got around to doing the conversion so I sold it all.

What options do we have for 5th scale motors these days? Other than the big CC motor, and the 22 series neus...