Brushed Versus Brushless

[sherbs]

I run brushless in my pan cars and offroad vehicles but I run Holmes brushed in my 2 crawlers. I am getting ready to do a crawler kit and was thinking of doing a brushless system in this one. What are the advantages to a brushlees system in a crawler besides the maintenance required on a brushed motor?

[Browneye]

Speed and power. If you wanna go-fast too, and pull, it's the ticket.
For technical rock crawling there isn't any, at least compared to a quality motor and esc. HH and HW comes to mind.

BLX is becoming quit popular with the hardcore element of this sport. (And bashers and trail-r's) The rest of us mere mortals use them in the go-fast buggies and such. I have a mambax blx in a Bomber and it is a killer setup. But I would say way overkill for any of my crawlers. Some of the guys really run them hard though.

[Voodoobrew]

You can get a higher max rpm from a brushless motor. Almost double. So you can gear them down some to get the same low end speeds, more low end torque, and more top end speed. They general run longer per charge as well.

I still mostly just run brushed 550 trailmaster 21t motors on a hw 1080 though. Can't beat the cost vs performance of that setup.