Castle Pricing for Non warranty

[Thomas Porfert]

Originally Posted by whitrzac

Non working prototype? There's no caps on it...


Why did you move away from having a USB port on the ESC? I've lost so many castle links over the years.

More expensive to build.
A lot of people hated it because they couldn't hook up the USB cable when it was mounted on the chassis and had to remove the ESC to connect it to the computer. (Present company included)
Nearly impossible to make it waterproof with the USB port.
Difficult to get the driver to work on 64-bit operating systems.

The last reason was the biggest problem. The engineers just couldn't quite get the Castle made driver to work on 64-bit operating systems and it wouldn't work with the Human Interface Device (HID) driver that we currently use on Castle Link adapter.

I understand completely about losing the Castle Link adapters. My desk here at work and my tool box have swallowed up countless adapters over the years. I have started using the Field Programming Card the last few years and love it. I rarely use it to actually program the ESC as a standalone unit. But it's larger than a credit card and bright yellow, so it's a lot harder to misplace.

Thomas Porfert
Tech Support
Castle Creations