New Castle Mamba X (sucessor of Mamba Max Pro)

[calcagno45]

JRH, what's your ETA on these? and will you be offering these with your sensor cable to replace the adaptor?

[Jeep757]

What's the benefits of this vs the MMX?

[mikemcE]

Size.....


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[svt923]

Originally Posted by Jeep757

What's the benefits of this vs the MMX?

Besides size and weight, the 4mm bullets on the Mamba X makes swapping motors more convenient.

All of my other motors use 4mm bullets, only the motor hooked up to my MMX uses 6.5mm bullets. If I want to run another motor on my MMX, I have to break out the soldering iron.

[SCREAMER]

So did I hear that right, these come with the X series harnes adapter for the sensor wire now? If so that was a smart move for Castle.

[Jeep757]

Originally Posted by svt923

Besides size and weight, the 4mm bullets on the Mamba X makes swapping motors more convenient.

All of my other motors use 4mm bullets, only the motor hooked up to my MMX uses 6.5mm bullets. If I want to run another motor on my MMX, I have to break out the soldering iron.

Ease of motor swapping would be nice, that alone would be at good reason to go with the mamba x.

Thank you

[JohnRobHolmes]

Originally Posted by SCREAMER

So did I hear that right, these come with the X series harnes adapter for the sensor wire now? If so that was a smart move for Castle.

Yes, a teeny little short one.

[fr8cture]

Yes they do. I swapped in a holmes sensor wire right away. The nice thing is there is a piece that bolts on next to the capacitors that keeps all the wires in. I always was worried the sensor wire would fall out on the MMP.

[Jeep757]

Originally Posted by JohnRobHolmes

I'm waiting on our shipment. Have 100 of em on order.

These do come with a little sensor adapter. But no male bullet plugs, if my sample was indicative of production packaging.

When do you think these will be available for order on your site?

Also, are there any plans on making more PP xl 3500kv motors? The last few weeks I've only seen the 2100kv xl available.

[Millsous]

What's the difference between this and the Mamba Monster X?

[magic_yeti]

Originally Posted by svt923

Besides size and weight, the 4mm bullets on the Mamba X makes swapping motors more convenient.

All of my other motors use 4mm bullets, only the motor hooked up to my MMX uses 6.5mm bullets. If I want to run another motor on my MMX, I have to break out the soldering iron.

I made 4mm to 6.5mm adapters to Connect my cc 1410 to the MMX

sent by magic_yeti

[84yoda]

Originally Posted by JohnRobHolmes

About 150 amps. It has 18 fets , compare to the old style mamba pro with 12.

What about the micro and monster X? How many amps and fets?

[robert@castle]

Originally Posted by 84yoda

What about the micro and monster X? How many amps and fets?

MMP and Mamba X actually both have 18 FETs but the Mamba X has copper bus bars on it that lower board resistance and help pull heat out of the FETs. Also the potting and aluminum case help with heat dissipation.

Sidewinder Micro has 6 FETs
Mamba Micro X has 6 FETs
Sidewinder 3 has 12 FETs
Mamba Max Pro has 18 FETs, but no bus bars
Mamba X has 18 FETs
Monster X has 30 FETs
Mamba Monster/Monster 2 has 36 FETs, but no bus bars
Mamba XLX has 48 FETs

[84yoda]

I have no clue what all that equals into amps though. Lol

[Rjohn929]

It means it handles enough.

[Col_Sanders]

I got my Mamba X today. Excellent looking ESC! I really like the finish. The aluminum case does add a bit of weight but it should help dissipate some heat. It does come with the X harness, which I think is a good move on Castle's part. Having to buy that pointless little harness separately was stupid.

Now for the problem....I CAN NOT get this thing to work with my brushed motor. It will go through the calibration just fine with my Futaba 4PLS OR with my stock Tactic TX/RX. It will arm (steady yellow LED) and return to neutral, but when I give any throttle, it will do nothing. No green or red flashy light. I have calibrated it numerous times to both radio setups and I have played with trim, end points, and expo. I have zeroed out the programming on the radio and reflashed the ESC to default and it still does the same thing.

If I change the motor programming to brushless (and dont hook up a motor), it will accept throttle inputs and will flash red or green. Then I can put it back to brushed mode and it will no longer indicate that it is getting throttle with or without a motor.

Everything is hooked up right. It is plugged into CH2 with the plug in the proper orientation. Battery is fully charged (I tried 2 different batteries). Both radio setups are bound properly and were in use before trying on this ESC so I know they are good, and they both show the same symptoms. I'm going to call Castle in the morning, but was hoping to see if anyone else had any experience with something similar.

[Col_Sanders]

Update....Called Castle this morning and they replicated the issue on two brand new Mamba Xs, so they say it is a firmware glitch. They are working on a fix.

I was hoping to run my new ESC and Holmes Hobbies Crawlmaster Pro in our comp tomorrow, but I'm going to end up using my 2300KV Roc 412 until they get the firmware issue resolved.

[Rjohn929]

Out of curiosity, why would you buy this to run brushed when you can run a Holmes BRXL for less? It seems to me that this is really aimed toward brushless applications.

[Col_Sanders]

Waterproof BRXL is $110 plus Waterproof BEC $29. Total price $139. Same price as the Mamba X.

I like being able to disable the drag brake and frankly, I'm sick of having to mess with running external BECs. Its another thing I have to solder, mount, more wires bundled up, and I lose the power switch. If this ESC works out, I'll probably end up selling my other 2 MMPs and putting these in their place.

[Rjohn929]

Fair enough.