KW_Counter

Thanks for the info. As Iresearched further, apparently there is a BEC incorporated into the ESC. I haven't been able to determine what BEC stands for, but I believe it is a voltage regulator and stepdowns/regulates the voltage for the receiver and servos. I noticed they have ESC's with of without BEC's built into them. The ones without the built in BEC obviously need an external BEC. I have also seen them referrred to as UBEC and I think the U might stand for "micro".

I think I am going to get a lost model alarm, although I'm a neebie, I did fly many many years ago (about 50) and watched a model fly off into the sunset, never to be seen again. Not a good feeling. To give you an ideal of how long ago that was, my transmitter had TUBES in it !!