ElectricGuy007

I just got an e-mail from A-main hobbies, Trinity is coming out with the speed gems series in brushless form!
And the best thing about it they are only 59.99 each!!
They are gonna have them in 5.5(4wd buggy), 8.5(Mod Truck), 12.5(super stock), and 15.5(stock)

I like A-main, but I'll wait til tower has thier preorders for them. I'm defintly getting the 8.5 and 5.5.

This is my second favorite motor series whenever I ran brushed, now only time will tell before Team Checkpoint comes out with thier brushless version.

From the picture it seems like they are sensored also.

redfisher1974

Cool....

Budget Monty

I used to love the speed gem motors, my first real motor back in the day was a 17T "Saphire", I had only ever had stock 27T silver can mabuchi motors before that on my tamiya monster beetle, I was very happy to say the least! Unfortunately I probably won't be buying one of these because I dont understand the rating system, and most manufacturers dont make it clear. I prefer the KV rating system for brushless motors, it is an actual number that means something I understand. It's the reason I bought a Mamba max combo over the associated system I initially wanted. Prices look good though!

Willystylz

was in Chapters today looking thru some RC mags and saw a bunch of Trinity SpeedGems ads.........the outside of the can looks pretty nifty, hopefully the performance matches the marketing!

86waterpumper

Are these based on the pulse motor cans or on the duo or what? They are having several issues with the pulse line of motors...it will be interesting to see people's feedback about these. The rating system does make it a bit harder to find brushed equivalents, but usually, 21 or 21.5 turn is used for something slow like crawlers, 17.5 is usually equivalent to a good 27 turn brushed racing type motor, a 12.5-13.5 would be equivalent to a good 17-19 turn, a 8.5 is probably close to a 12-14 turn, and a 5.5 should be really fast probably equivalent to a 6 or 7 turn or close to a 7700 castle etc. Novak and Trinity gives you a chart btw that shows the kv of it's motors so I guess trinity is trying to rate theirs the same way. Here is what my rc mag says on the trinity speed gem ad:

Amber 15.5 - kv2700, rpm 19,980
Titanite 12.5 - kv3200, rpm 23,680
Chromium 8.5 -kv4700, rpm 34,780
Nitronite 5.5 - kv7200, rpm 53,280

racerj3

Looking at the can its DUO based.

twogear

I am looking at getting the titanite (12.5) for my SC10. I just hope it works well with the Havoc 3S. I have loved the the low cost modified motors from Trinty since the "Buggy Master " Speedworks motor I put in my Monster Beetle.

jermpool

I was just thinking the same thing, about the titanite for my sc10. When you get it let me know how you like it.

twogear

Will do jerm. I have a bunch of pinions to test with it also. I will post what I find when mine comes in. Looking at about a week.