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10-21-2014, 12:20 AM | #21 (permalink) |
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Thanks for the reassurance guys..I feel totally comfortable going with CC
How do you determine how much headroom your esc should have over your motors max current? I'm planning on an Xnova 4025 560 motor and specs say it has a max continuous current of 68. I assume the Edge HV 80 would be sufficient or are there any benefits on stepping up to the 120 for this bird. Does giving yourself more headroom provide a "safer" setup? Do any other factors play into this other than motor current? I'm not looking to future proof myself for later builds just want the best for this one. Thanks again |
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10-21-2014, 01:58 PM | #22 (permalink) |
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I run the Edge 80HV in my Compass 6HVU with an Xnova 4030 470kv, 12S, 2100-2200RPM headspeed. Average current is 20-30A with max spikes 80-100A. The ESC is barely warm after the flight.
My flight style is fairly mild right now but I do hammer on it a bit. I have no doubt the 80HV could handle more as my flying progresses. I think it is plenty capable for a majority of 570-600 setups and flying styles. As far as headroom, it's hard to say. First of all the numbers can be misleading and inflated, just like lipos. A 4025 motor is unlikely to ever see 68A for a continuous amount of time. At the same time it could spike to 200A+ if overloaded with improper gearing or setup. Most of the time you should be pretty safe following mfgr recommendations for motor/ESC size and gearing/headspeed. With datalogging then you can easily monitor how the setup is performing and make adjustments from there. |
11-22-2014, 08:25 PM | #23 (permalink) |
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Trust me you can still explode a Castle Edge 120. Of coarse you need to run it so tight to the main gear that it sheds fuss after every flight and run it at about 65% rpms.
After about 30 flights it exploded on the ground before takeoff. Burned up all of the electronics in the Align 700 DFC Pro. New Frame and all of the mechanics were ok. Dumb mistakes on my part don't blame Castle. Regards Denwag
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12-22-2014, 06:15 AM | #24 (permalink) | |
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My ESC is going to be the Edge 160 with the fan because of fuselage. My 600 and 550 are running LiFe works like a charm.
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01-11-2015, 02:14 AM | #25 (permalink) |
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++ To Castle.
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05-03-2015, 07:59 AM | #26 (permalink) |
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That's great but what about the $$$$ in electronics that were fried by a faulty BEC. It would be great if only the BEC failed but 99% of the time it takes out all of the electronics as well.
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05-03-2015, 06:17 PM | #27 (permalink) | |
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So far I have seen no company out here that will replace your heli if an bec burns them up and all becs have had one at least fail. I don't care whos they are.
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05-06-2015, 11:44 AM | #28 (permalink) |
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Well, all CC products have worked great for many years and all without exception have had cases of failure. I have an ICE 100 on a Trex 500 that has never given me a problem and a BEC 10A, that burned yesterday in the moment I connected the battery. Fortunately I was away from home and it decided to suicide on the ground.
This same BEC have been installed for about 4-5 years and have endured at around 400 battery connections, for flights, test and adjustments. That been said the 10A BEC is a pure hype. The company policy of presenting marketing details is well know and that doesn't help to improve their popularity. The 10A BEC is not capable of 10A 'peak' if used with 6s LiPo, continuous only 5A, so it can even be a false statement. And with 2s LiPo it only delivers 7A continuous, thats only 70% of what you see labeled on the product. Indeed 10A looks better than 5A, doesn´t it... |
05-17-2015, 04:24 PM | #29 (permalink) |
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BEC Failures
I have had 1 10 amp bec fail, and it failed while the FBL controller initialized. For tail servo had locked up internally overloading the BEC. Any short or overload and the BEC will be the first thing to go
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05-17-2015, 06:30 PM | #30 (permalink) |
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HI Smackit, I've been running an ICE2 HV 80 in my 570 for 200 plus flights and it is fine. I also run a castle bec pro on the heli wired to the low 6s pack 'cells 1-6' so I can power up the fbl unit etc before plugging second high 6s pack 'cells 7-12s' in to arm esc. Works great for me
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05-17-2015, 07:29 PM | #31 (permalink) |
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I have been running castle esc only since the past 4 years , never had a problem, I have 7 castle esc, no problems! CC are great esc
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05-17-2015, 11:35 PM | #32 (permalink) |
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I have 3 Castles currently, all 3 of them are bulletproof. A guy I fly with has some funky thing going on, his logs show spikes of 370 amps on his 160 HVF and its never cut out, its not even that hot but it lands with the beeps warning of over current. In our club I've seen many helis fall out of the sky due to power related glitches in the last year and none of them I saw were a castle failure. I think its underrated product and you shouldn't hold a grudge that people that diss it for being a fire starter. Any company can have a problem but it seems like they tried to fix it. Look how many reports of YGE's burning up lately. And they're almost double the money so ??
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05-18-2015, 06:57 AM | #33 (permalink) |
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I have CC esc and bec where applicable in all my my choppers ranging from 450's, Synergy E5, 2 goblin 500 and goblin 700c. I've never had an issue, not once. Years ago they had issues and immediately fixed the problem. You have haters on HF. But for the money with data logging capabilities you can't beat it.
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