Hi All,

Being a tight english man - I've decided to build my own ESCs for my second heli (Dragonfly), how difficult could it be?

Anyway a bit of research found quite a few DIY ESC sites:
Brushed
http://www.webx.dk/rc/ecs2b.htm
http://jaichi.virtualave.net/minireg2-e.htm
http://jaichi.virtualave.net/speedy3-e.htm
http://jaichi.virtualave.net/spdy1684-e.htm

BrushLess
http://jaichi.virtualave.net/speedybl-e.htm

Personally when I saw the simple design and price of Thomas Scherrer's kit (first link), I thought why bother designing the pcb etc.
I have emailled the guy and await confirmation of my order. Imagine having an ESC that you can upgrade by just adding more FETs!!

Hi

If you have all the equipments and component ready, I don't think it is difficult. Just solder properly and u ready to go.

The difficult part is designing your own ESC but now since u have the schematics, I don't think it is difficult.... provided you can find all the electronics part needed to.

Super-Hornet

Yep,

Soldering isn't an issue (Qualified TV Service Eng.) and I also have a PIC programmer from my Sat Hack days - the only part was (like you say) the design. Building it from the scematic is no problem.

Just thought I'd share my findings.

Steve.

Humm... where do you buy all the part for this...?and is it cheaper?

Helifreak,

I have just ordered two kits from the web site direct email [email protected] in Denmark.
The cost for two 1 FET kits was 21 euros including postage (as cheap as one GWS ESC)

Steve

This is tough...

tell us how you get on pleaese
also i live in england iswell and the prices are not cheap i can tell you that

No problem Zeeshan,

I will post my finding, just waiting for the money to upload at the moment (21 euros = £14.23 = $25) for two 10Amp ESC's!

Steve

thats wiked by the way can you explain to me what a esc is i just want to make sure is it the three in one board for a helicopter or is it the speed controller
thank you

where to order the kit for the brushlless esc?

Zeeshan,
It's the speed controller on it's own. (Not 3 in 1 receiver, ESC & mixer)


Helifreak,
http://jaichi.virtualave.net/speedybl-e.htm
Click on dowload partlist and read the word document in the zip file.

Steve