Sky & Technology Quark 80A

[Coolice]

Hey All,

Thought I'd show you a picture of the new Sky & Technology Quark 80B speed controller that just landed through my door. Needless to say I am impressed by the look of the unit and it's nice packaging.

The ESC itself is in a fairly substantial metal case/heatsink with all the main wires pre-soldered to the unit. There is ferrite rings over the main power cables into the ESC & the Rx. connections coming out of it.

As is the norm for Quark there appears to be the coloured lights for setting up purposes and a nice sized button for accessing/accepting settings.

I'm looking forward to trying it out :D

I shall be fitting this ESC asap to my Swift after some events here in the UK, as I plan on going up to 6s for a little extra power and trying these much talked about Emoli cells.
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[mike the snake]

I have the Quark 65 controller, it is very nice, and easy to set up.
Mine's in a QJ8 and it's set up in AIR mode not heli mode, so no governor.
I have a v-curve for throttle, but I am interested in trying out the governor feature.
Please post your observations however you set it up as i am very interested.
Apparently they stuff the 85 in the same case as the 65 as my 65 is identical..

[Laurens]

How much lipo's can it handle?

[Coolice]

Hey Mike,

Will do as soon as I try the ESC out. It looks very well made & I know the smaller Quark23A in my 3D PRO goes well and I expect this 80A to be the same.

Hey Laurens,

Up to 6s, 22.2 volt LiPo mate.
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[mike the snake]

There are many people running 8 cells using the Hacker A30 8XL and the Quark 65.
Both of these are above the max recomendations, (5 cells for the motor and 6 or 8 on the ESC) but I guess as long as the current draw isn't too high it's OK to do.

[rchover]

does this controller have soft start and gov mode or is it a plank only controller ??

[mike the snake]

It will run anything from RC cars to helis (with all the bells and whistles like governor and soft start) to airplanes.
It has many parameters, pretty darn nice.

[Coolice]

Hey Jeremy,

As Mikes said this controller would do everything if you wanted it to, with all the right features for airbourne models.

Check out the specs on the Sky & Technology web site.

http://www.sky-technology.net/home.htm

I haven't as yet wired this into my model as it's running well with the 6s setup I've just switched to, I may see if I can get it reviewed somewhere first so that it gets the recognition it deserves!
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