New blue castle crawler motors

[calcagno45]

Need the Mamba X and 1406 combo

[robert@castle]

Originally Posted by mikemcE

A 17.5 is 2600kv so why not shoot out with the new 2850 ?
I'm running the 17.5(non rpm) in my wraith, doesn't seem to have lots of torque, although it pulls well.
Would I see any real difference other than can color ?


Hang up and Drive

Every brand 17.5 is slightly different so it's hard to know what the kv is. A quick google shows 17.5 can be between 1900kv and 2600kv.
Turn to Kv conversion 540 2 pole motors / several brands - R/C Tech Forums
This is a good example of why we rate our motors by KV rather than turn count. Turn count can be a very arbitrarily thing that doesn't fully determine how fast a motor spins.

On our motors KV doesn't affect minimum RPM very much. Magnet and stator design do. All of the new motors should spin much slower at startup than any 2 pole motor will.

[robert@castle]

Originally Posted by fr8cture

I;m just curious how someone got blue out of the pictures of the new motor. Clearly a grey color. lol

They do actually have a bit of blue tint to them. It's kinda a grey blue. These instagram shots from one of our testers shows the color a little better than our preview shots.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BR9ZumgD...ocontrolpatrol

[el_Fernando]

I just found my new motor! 2850kv for me

[whitrzac]

Received my tracking ## from castle yesterday

[66Bullfrog]

still waiting for my 1900

[robert@castle]

I saw a stack of them on the dock to ship out yesterday. I saw a bigger stack this morning.

[whitrzac]

I wonder what could be in this box


100,000rpm, challenge accepted.


1st up: They are blue; and they are grey. They look grey from ~5ft away and metallic blue from less.


Time for the nudes




Length comparison vs pro4


I won't have any significant time to do testing until the weekend.

[mikemcE]

Pure Porn !!!!


Hang up and Drive

[robert@castle]

Originally Posted by whitrzac

I wonder what could be in this box

Jackal! Jackal! It's a Jackal! Jackal!(Family Guy reference)

100,000rpm, challenge accepted.

Good luck finding an 11s car controller... Needs 44 volts to hit that RPM.

1st up: They are blue; and they are grey. They look grey from ~5ft away and metallic blue from less.

The real question is, do you like the way it looks and does it look good in your car?

I won't have any significant time to do testing until the weekend.

Looking forward to your results.

[MattySlimz1987]

Thats so awesome.

[Col_Sanders]

I love the color. I'll probably order one when they are available from RPP. I was hoping they would be there this week since I placed 2 orders, but maybe next week.

[84yoda]

Jesus, could the wiring be any longer? Lol.

Im diggin the color, good choice castle.

[robert@castle]

Originally Posted by 84yoda

Jesus, could the wiring be any longer? Lol.

Im diggin the color, good choice castle.

You can unsolder the wire and make it any length you want, better that it is long and can shorten it down than short and have to buy new wire. They are 11" right now.

I don't know why more of our marketing about the motors doesn't mention the solder tabs. Engineering was quite proud of them after examining other brand motors that used PCB's or thin tin plated tabs. We made our tabs gold plated copper that has a larger cross sectional area than the wires that solder to them.

[JatoTheRipper]

Originally Posted by 84yoda

Jesus, could the wiring be any longer? Lol.

Im diggin the color, good choice castle.

Longer is much better than too short! Wires can always be cut. I'm glad Castle did this instead of cutting costs here and making the wires 3" long.

The color is nice - much, much better than the typical Castle green. I am not a fan of green.

[whitrzac]

Originally Posted by JatoTheRipper

Longer is much better than too short! Wires can always be cut. I'm glad Castle did this instead of cutting costs here and making the wires 3" long.

The color is nice - much, much better than the typical Castle green. I am not a fan of green.

*marks date on calendar: Jato said something positive about a Castle Creations product today

[84yoda]

Originally Posted by whitrzac

*marks date on calendar: Jato said something positive about a Castle Creations product today

Priceless!

[JatoTheRipper]

Originally Posted by whitrzac

*marks date on calendar: Jato said something positive about a Castle Creations product today

In the past there wasn't much good to say about Castle. They are changing.

[calcagno45]

He has bragged about the AUX wire and the new rock racer mode...

[robert@castle]

Originally Posted by calcagno45

He has bragged about the AUX wire and the new rock racer mode...

He was the first person to contact me with that idea, but he is also the only person I told on R/C tech that I worked for castle. On my personal account I kept it on the DL, but I contacted him to run some beta software when he was having issues with a firmware version of the Monster X.

So in reality, you could say that it is his fault that I am on here.