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Old 12-28-2007 | 05:15 AM
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Matthew007
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Default I plunged and ordered a $100 1:10 Brushless system

Yip..$100 including ship.

The motors specs and can looks exactly like a FEIGAO 540S (Sensorless) (same color, weight, power,amps..etc), except with a 3.17mm = 1/8" shaft and a heatsink in the middle.

The 120A rated ESC was used in the Heng Leng Mad monster with a 3S lipo 11.1V 2100mah battery.
[link=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sUq9f2WGio]The video[/link]

It's pretty big at 70x50mm but that's good for cooling and maybe mounting a $3 cpu fan that TH charges a million dollars for.

The icing of the cake that got me to decide to order was the "program card."
It has a ton of automatic and constant features like temp cut-off, voltage, current control, etc. The manual is here:

http://www.modellfun.com/ebay/MFC_manual_en.pdf

Hopefully it's not the icing of a cake made out of sh **. (Disturbed's David Draiman comment on pop-music heheheh).

Oh yea the link I ordered from:
[link=http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330200319353]Order place to buy the thing link[/link]

The draw backs:
75% motor efficiency (still better than brushed mod motor)
No name-brand = no reliability records and being flamed by major geektrolls.
Replacement part availability
And whatever you guys can add that makes sense.

P.S
This is not an advertisement
Let me be your crash test dummy.
I have a 4 year old Traxxas Bandit rolling chasis that flexes and vibrates I can detroy to test it out until I get my Tamiya F-150 (Ta-01/02) Which will be done probably by 2nd week of January,
Yea the guy who asked those stupid questions from the seller was me.

Also, will a sensorless motor of the same KV rating provide more torque general? I see the traxxas 3500kv sensorless motor is rated as a 10T..or is it literally 10t wound? Confusing. It would be so nice if hobby stores/manufacturers uploaded a torque/current/power/rpm/efficiency curve like Mabuchi does.
But I guess less informed consumers are better for business.