Hi all, I just bought an E-FLITE 20 amp speed controller and was wondering if this is a good choise for a 3D fomie. the reason I ask is because it does not say anything about programing for soft or hard starts. The only thing I see about programing is for brake on/off. This is my first electric so I know nothing about these things. Here is my setup...E-FLITE QQ yak...park 370 brushless...E-FLITE 20 amp esc Thank you Marc

I have a couple of friends that did similar set ups, and liked them.

I had a 40 amper on my Katana 35 ES from Accel, and hated the thing. Spool up was drastically slower than the same set up on a CC P-25. Flying indoors this winter, I crashed the plane, as I simply could not control the plane with the motor spooling up WAY behind other stick commands. It takes all 4 channels in coordination to flya good size plane in a confined space. With the CC, I had no problem keeping the plane flying in the gym.

A friend of mine also had a small scale twin military plane (C-160, I think) that crashed due to an E-Flite 40 amp ESC that failed.

The E-Flite only has brake settings accessible to the user. I like the hard start too, and think that was the difference in the CC performing well, and the E-Flite not.

Again, the 20 seemed to do well. Those guys flew them in Shocky sized planes and up to 16 ouncers. Your set up looks OK, just be warned about the spool up, if you fly in a confined space.

Has anybody else had trouble with throttle response? I've been doing 3D with glow planes and I know how important good throttle response is. What does hard/soft start mean? Does a CC speed controller cost alot more than the E-flite esc? I really want to get a good setup to begin with so any more opinions/advise would be greatly appretiated.


Thanks, Marc.

Soft start slows the controllers response to the throttle stick command. It's like expo on the throttle. On a geared set up, this can allow your gears to live longer. I started to use the hard start on outrunners, and then liked it so much, I tried it on my geared set ups too.

the CC is quite a bit more expensive, unless you find a real good deal online. To me, the E-Flite ESC isn't an option again.

I'm now experimenting with the Jeti ESC, and have high hopes.