Coasting with the Hobbywing AXE R2. Bit dissapointed.

[MizuNoLorien]

Sensored esc motor combo from spektrum is announced.

http://bit.ly/SmartSensored

It seems a rebranded axe r2, but no Bluetooth mentioned and in the manual I don’t see the “basher” mode in the programming options. It might be a version 1 axe combo, but the sensored cable plug seems the new one.
The smart stuff is nice, and with the latest upgrade all the smart ESCs can be programmed directly from the radio.

 

[redemon]

So exocaged on Youtube took a R2 and used the basher mode fine. Hauls the mail.

 

[MizuNoLorien]

So exocaged on Youtube took a R2 and used the basher mode fine. Hauls the mail.

Can you link the video?

 

[redemon]

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[PFongemie]

So, in the end I bought that Castle Mamba X Combo with the 3800kV motor on eBay. Got lucky and it oinly took 5 days to get to the UK from the US. Installed and tried it out tonight. Bear in mind first impressions are with all settings at default (still waiting for the USB link thingy to program the ESC).

First observations on default settings:

1. Its very smooth across the mid and high power range. Far nicer to drive than the HW AXE R2 was in F/B/R mode when you are hooning about
2. After a 10 min blast about the motor and ESC were stone cold
3. Wee bit more punch or maybe imediacy than the HW (on default settings).
4. Not quite as smooth as the HW at very low speeds
5. Not able to run quite as slowly as the HW was able to with the same gearing so not as good for crawling (at least with my Wendigo's gearing, 11T pinion down from stock 17T). In an actual crawler it would be fine.
6. In common with everfy other brushless setup aside form the HW, it's a bit noisy. The relative silence of the HW AXE is very nice.

All told, it will suit my purposes better than the AXE R2 setup but I'll miss that super low speed control.

Hope that is helpful for someone.

Once you get the usb link (or the Bluetooth link) you can adjust your throttle curve and achieve a nice smooth slow crawl.
Also if your running a 2 speed trans you can attach the extra white wire to the 2 speed servo and you’ll get the auto drag brake. Low gear = 100% drag brake, high gear = whatever setting you set the drag brake to. So when your trailing in high gear you can let off the throttle and coast.