New traxxas castle mamba monster extreme?

[E-Revonut]

It's not a 1717 in disguise, Traxxas says it's a 1717 so I would say the only difference is the black can.

Yes the price tag is high and hopefully it keeps inexperienced people away, but there will always be those rich kids that gotta have the fastest one.

[crazyjr]

Originally Posted by E-Revonut

It's not a 1717 in disguise, Traxxas says it's a 1717 so I would say the only difference is the black can.

Yes the price tag is high and hopefully it keeps inexperienced people away, but there will always be those rich kids that gotta have the fastest one.

That's what i was meaning, the black can. Even if there isn't a rebuild kit, strippers will sell nthe motors for a decent price

[bdebde]

Originally Posted by crazyjr

That's what i was meaning, the black can. Even if there isn't a rebuild kit, strippers will sell nthe motors for a decent price

Strippers huh? I can't wait to see that!

I hope Castle starts selling the 171 again but this time hopefully with lower kv. Something under 1400kv would be awesome so we can run it on 8S.

The ESC seems like an identical unit with just a fancy looking cap bank. I would really like to see Castle make the Mamba Monster sensored and with soldering posts instead of wires and connectors. That would be sweet.

[Pdelcast]

Originally Posted by E-Revonut

It's not a 1717 in disguise, Traxxas says it's a 1717 so I would say the only difference is the black can.

Yes the price tag is high and hopefully it keeps inexperienced people away, but there will always be those rich kids that gotta have the fastest one.

We developed a whole new stator and rotor design for this car -- it uses a shorter and lighter rotor for faster spin-up, and is up to 4% more efficient than the original 1717.

The stator design was optimized for higher maximum currents, and higher saturation currents -- so the efficiency doesn't "brick wall" at extreme currents.

The controller is the newest version of the MMM, with the new Infineon BSC011 extreme MOSFETS, with .0011 ohms / MOSFET. The additional capacitor pack was required to keep the ripple currents at the controller input at a minimum during extremely high (300+ Amp) currents during acceleration.

This is also our first ESC to implement our "Castle Link Live" operating mode, which reports ESC data in real-time to the receiver without using any external wiring. This allows the ESC data (like RPM, temperature, etc.) to be displayed in real-time on the IPhone/Ipod touch application.

Very cool implementation.