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I mean I suppose you could hack it to receive PPM signals from the receiver if you know what you're doing, but I'd guess that the characteristics of drill ESCs aren't really what you want for a fighting robot. The same way we don't use brushed drill ESCs for robots, they're adequate for controlling the drill, but not much else.
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Having read this lot we've figured out a way that we're going to try and put it all together. We know that our Brushless ESC's with the motors alright so what we'll try to do is take the motors out and set up some kind of system for holding them using the upper body of the drill in the faint hope that it works!
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Hi fellas, sorry to drag up an old thread but the last year or so brushless drills power to weight and size ratio has gotten seriously too good to ignore lol. The gearboxes on some of these new high end drills are incredible. Wondered if anyone has managed it yet?
I’ve brought one to tinker with. Was going to hook it up to a brushless bb80 with simonK on and see If it would work without the sensor.
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While RC hobby technology has advanced and access to Asian manufactures has improved since 2017, the price of brushless motors in commercial products has so far commanded a premium price.
Its my opinion the cost of a brushless drill set up by time you've made modifications does not outweigh the simplicity in terms of maintenance and repair or the robustness of a simple gear drive or off the shelf planetary gearbox with a hobby motor.
With brushless drills your also paying for a battery technology usually Li-Ion which is not widely used in the hobby and heavier than LiPo's. Then onto the electronics again not something that can be used in a robot, usually these are fully potted and not as easy to interface with RC gear like an inexpensive and infinitely more programable VESC.
I feel we have advanced on from drill motors like we have moved on from windscreen wiper motors. A standard BRUSHED drill set-up is still a good way to get started and learn from for a really low cost but people that use them do generally move onto more tried and tested brushless setups using parts designed for robot combat.