Brakemanbobsmith
Active Member
Well after my Radier ESC burst into flames on me the the other day I went to the hobby shop ESC shopping.
Heard good things about the Castle line and settled on there Sidewinder 3 ECS/ 4600kv motor combo. Sales guy tells me that's a good combo And it's sensored too whick makes it even better!
Mind you this is a combo pack with ESC and motor packaged together as one unit.
Get home install motor, plug in sensor harness route wires up to ESC mounting spot pull ESC out of box and start plugging up wires from motor to the ESC.
I can't find anywhere on the ESC to connect the sensor harness?
I go over the little generic wiring diagram that was included that showed harness plugging into ECS! So I look over ESC again and again and again! Nope not seeing it anywhere!
Then I pick up the sleeve that the separate motor box and ESC box were slid into and shrink wrapped together in!
And right there on the package it says! "Now includes censored motor"
The a space down from this!
Are you ready for this?
It says censored motor will not work with this ESC! WTF???
Why would you package a sensored motor ESC combo together advertising it including a sensored motor an then not include a ESC that would work with it?
Don't make sense to me?
And being that I already opened it my hobby shop won't take it back by there store policy.
At least I can run it non sensored anyway!
But in the end no one to blame but myself for not reading the package completely myself I guess?
Still don't get packaging an sensored motor and a non sensor capable ESC together as a combo though?
Heard good things about the Castle line and settled on there Sidewinder 3 ECS/ 4600kv motor combo. Sales guy tells me that's a good combo And it's sensored too whick makes it even better!
Mind you this is a combo pack with ESC and motor packaged together as one unit.
Get home install motor, plug in sensor harness route wires up to ESC mounting spot pull ESC out of box and start plugging up wires from motor to the ESC.
I can't find anywhere on the ESC to connect the sensor harness?
I go over the little generic wiring diagram that was included that showed harness plugging into ECS! So I look over ESC again and again and again! Nope not seeing it anywhere!
Then I pick up the sleeve that the separate motor box and ESC box were slid into and shrink wrapped together in!
And right there on the package it says! "Now includes censored motor"
The a space down from this!
Are you ready for this?
It says censored motor will not work with this ESC! WTF???
Why would you package a sensored motor ESC combo together advertising it including a sensored motor an then not include a ESC that would work with it?
Don't make sense to me?
And being that I already opened it my hobby shop won't take it back by there store policy.
At least I can run it non sensored anyway!
But in the end no one to blame but myself for not reading the package completely myself I guess?
Still don't get packaging an sensored motor and a non sensor capable ESC together as a combo though?