Outrunner Information Thread

[Shonen]

I never really understood the outrunner until I seen the right 3D animation.

This one isn't very good, but worth a look

I've seen that animation before, and I must say it is quite informative. I can stare at it forever it helped when I looked at it frame-by-frame as well.

Adding sensors manually seems to help the startup a lot. Would be nice if there were some sensored outrunners available.

I have been wating a few sensored outrunners for a while. They would be great to have for many direct to diff/wheel applications as well as being great for crawling. Imagine a moa rig with a pair of 22 series sensored outrunners run by a pair of mmpro escs on 6s. Unstopable!

It does seem to work very well for low-speed control, I will read up more on sensored outrunners.

Looks like Holmes Hobbies is getting close to releasing one.

John Rob is a regular here.

Perhaps he could join in here and shed some light on this.

I would buy if they were large enough.

I wonder what sizes are going to be offered?

I hope he sees this thread, cause the one on RCC has been dead since January...

As for the DIY sensor projects, it seems to be viable since apparently sensored RC outrunners are quite rare. I wonder if it's due to the higher pole count? Or maybe just because outrunners were typically air-type motors, and startup was not as important due to the small loading vs. ground startup?