Recent content by gavinseim

I am looking for an equivalent to this motor for $50 or less, preferably sold by a US Company. Anyone know of any?

Thanks for all the info. I don't quite understand the how the lamp would help. I must be missing something? Also, does anyone have experience with rctimer escs? I need about a fifty amp, minimum that doesn't cost a fortune. Thoughts?

Anyone ever tried putting a fuse in to prevent fried escs?

Thanks everyone. The escs are rated to handle up to seventy amps and up to 70 amps at 22.2 volts. I have around 45-50 at 18.5 volts (5s lipo), I am going to try to redo the wiring and rctimer seems to be open to replacing the problem parts.

The ESCs are opto, so they have no built in BEC. Also the bec and board seem to be working fine.

So I am building a multi-rotor, an octo. It has 8 RC Hobbies ESC 70A Brushless Motor Speed Controller and 8 RC Hobbies ESC 70A Brushless Motor Speed Controller, both from rctimer. I wired everything up but when I put power to it, one of the ESCs began smoking. At first I assumed I must have had...