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@Ellis,
The breaking on one side and not the other you're experiencing with the Electronizes is a feature I've experienced and I believe it's down to the Relays.
On Bitza sometimes when the stick centralises on the Tx it'll swap the motor direction (the relay clicks over), which feels like breaking, only it would only do it on one side.
Why? I don't know, annoying? Yes!
Electronic breaking is good for control, but it'll make your ESCs work hard.
@Dave,
Ah the bedroom workshop, we've all been there.
While we're on the subject of 'Which ESC' I bought a couple of super cheap Chinese ESCs the other day.
£13 each on recommendation from Guileherme, can take up to 14v (18v with a simple mod) and he runs 2 drills on one so plenty of amperage.
Built in BEC, Li-Po prtection etc... Came in just a few days.
I do have an issue though where there is a major delay between fwd and rev if anyone has any insight into why?
Guileherme hasn't experienced this with his.
PJ- it's warmer then the shed lol...
Ellis, I think if you got them you'd find tormenta drives much better... Electronizes are ghetto. Fact.
Lmfao, the robot was made out of wheelbarrow inner-tube and chopping boards, ghetto iz how we do. :wink:
I'll be testing a couple of the Botbitz 25A ESCs in the next couple of weeks on 4 drill motors at 12v, testing them using Cicatrix so will post the results on here soon.
That would be great. Keep us posted. If they work well, they're much closer to reality money-wise for us. We'd be running the drills hard and at 18v, though.
I don't have an 18v battery or any combination of batteries that could produce 18v :( . I was tempted to try them on 19.2v that I run Cicatrix on normally as the XXL can behave a bit strangely sometimes and they would be a nice cheap replacement for it, but they're only rated at 18v. I'll do the 12v test first so I don't kill them then do a 19.2v test if i'm feeling brave.
could you use one of these?
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&gl ... WPzE&mvs=0
wow that's some link.
if you build it into a circuit but they.don't handle that many amps.
When someone told me about people hacking brushless esc's to drive brushed motors I was a bit confused since Castle Creations and Novak 1:8th scale and 1:10th scale ESC's can do that already without any modifications (and probably Tekin ESC's as well but I am not certain about that one).