Novak crawler brushless motor

[Cmarcan167]

I am VERY new to crawlers. Just picked up a wraith kit and am in the process of building it. I am taking my time with it and I am doing basic upgrades right out of the box. It has all metal gears in t-case, and a few other do-dads. I am gearing for very slow moving with a 87/13. I was looking at the Novak 21.5t brushless sensored motor and was wondering if it was worth my while. I am not trying to spend $150 on a tekin ROC of I don't have to. I will be using a 70a dynamite esc and if that doesn't work well I may step up to a mamba max pro. Any thoughts on a high torque brushless crawler motor?

[champ198]

from what I have gathered roaming around the forums here a lot of people say away from Novak elect. if I was going for another motor look at Holmes hobbies. John has some great motors and they are very reasonably priced. also for a lot more info than you can think of go down to the wraith forum and there is a sticky that Harley has on motors and gearing its well worth the read
on my wraith I went with a Holmes hobbies 55t torque master handwound

[Olle P]

The Novak motors seems okay, but for slow crawling use a brushed motor!

[Johnnysplits]

I have a Hobbywing Xerun 21.5T BL sensored motor in mine, however i'm geared lower than yours...93/12 with 43/13's. It crawls great. However, if you want it to wheel like a comp crawler, then you have to go with a brushed motor.

[OSRC]

Timbuk2\13.5\2S in my Wraith currently, has worked fine for me. THe ESC makes a few R2D2 sounds at low RPM but overall feels nice and smooth, and good top end. No issues with the motor at all - feels like my other brushed setups really. I've run other Novak motors with various ESCs in my speedier set-ups without issue.

Ironically, I'm bumping up to a 3100kv ROC motor set-up, but only as I'm looking for a little more speed. the Novak is going over to my SCX actually where I can actually get my fat fingers on the programming buttons.

[Calderwood]

For less than $200 you can have a mmp and a 3656sd.

[Cmarcan167]

OSRC...what gearing are you running and how much run time do you get?

[OSRC]

Unknown on the gearing. Second owner, and know it's converted to 32p but didn't bother to count. Can let you know when I tear it down (tonight most likely, roc's coming tomorrow).

As far as runtime, I've never dumped a battery yet. Run 4000mah packs and have wheeled for 45 minutes without dumping. Slower technical stuff with a few full throttle bursts. Not sure if that helps or not.

[OSRC]

16/54 is what was in there after tearing it down.