ESC's, motors, FCB's, and transmitters.

Chuck

Chuck

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Everything that I've read here and have been told elsewhere, implies that toy-grade quads, bodies not withstanding, are in compatible with the hobby-grade hardware such as trandmitters, FCB's, and ESC's. Yet looking on Hobby King's website just now, I'm seeing ESC's specifically intended for brushed motors. Are there hobby-grade quads out there flying with brushed motors? If so, who is still making them? The fact that ESC's designed for brushed motors are even available, on the face suggests that a toy-grade quad like a Syma X8 can be upgraded to hobby-grade performance, despite the naysayers that look down their noses at them. After all. The Brits and Yanks prevailed with Lancasters and Flying Fortresses, long before jet-propelled bombers became a reality.
 
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The one that I'm looking at is the Turnigy 30A Brushed ESC. Presumably, this will make brushed motors in quads compatible with Turnigy hardware and software "upstream". Including a transmitter.
 
of course the fallacy is in classification. people who believe in stuff are always amazed when the beliefs go but the stuff is still there.

eg. in audio the line was "respectably" breached decades ago when "the cool people" started "circuit bending" electronic "toys" to make unique electronic instruments, the classic example being the texas instruments speak n spell, which you'll probably find on ebay more modded than stock.

as consumers want a "toy" microquad that goes fast, like the one they saw someone do on youtube ("whoop" or "doinker" or god knows what else) then the manufacturing lines blur to compensate for new markets. i've seen a half dozen micro classes with brushless motors, and really what are you gonna do with them. too expensive for aspirants and too bloody useless except for saying "look what i've got" as if 2mph faster or 3mm smaller is going to increase the size of someone's donkey.
 
Watch this vid.


So he gets 796 + 560 = 1356 grams of thrust divided by 4 = 339 grams per motor.

These are the exact ~<$6 motors and props I use on my tricopter.

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They have worked well, I do keep the bearings oiled. Even with only 3 motors it runs circles around my X8 at a lot less throttle.
 
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