Skaldiddog's "Progress"

[Bc Paints]

teaser shot of Joel's scratch art Xciter

[Frankenwheely]

SAWEET!

[SkaldidDog]

That is awesome! Thank Mrs. BC (Beyond Cool) for her generous application of creative skill. I can't wait to see it. Y'all rock!

J

[d-wray]

Joel this was a great idea, I copied yours the best I could & they worked great yesterday at our comp, they were warm to the touch after every course now to just fix my brownout problem

[SkaldidDog]

Originally Posted by d-wray

Joel this was a great idea, I copied yours the best I could & they worked great yesterday at our comp, they were warm to the touch after every course now to just fix my brownout problem

Glad they ran cooler for you. Notice any performance difference (when they were not browned out)?

My machinist called yesterday. Swears my goodies will be ready this week. Fingers crossed.

J

[d-wray]

Originally Posted by SkaldidDog

Glad they ran cooler for you. Notice any performance difference (when they were not browned out)?


My machinist called yesterday. Swears my goodies will be ready this week. Fingers crossed.

J

Yeah they feel consistent, big difference over what I was running before.

I want to see these goodies.

[SkaldidDog]

Originally Posted by d-wray

Yeah they feel consistent, big difference over what I was running before.

I want to see these goodies.

Good to hear.

And yes, I want to see them too. Been a long time coming.

J

[Highlucks]

Joel, Are you just hot gluing the sink to the board?

[Frankenwheely]

Originally Posted by Highlucks

Joel, Are you just hot gluing the sink to the board?

Goop. He has stock in it.

[Bc Paints]

Originally Posted by Bc Paints

teaser shot of Joel's scratch art Xciter

More!

some of Joel's fave foods, sponsor logos and machining references
Designs end approximately at Joel's trim job

[Farmer]

I love it, very fitting
Later,
Farmer

[SkaldidDog]

I love it! Thank you very much for your hard work and creativity. Can't wait to see it in person.
Joel

[TheAxialNut]

Awesome thread.

Love all this streamlining and optimization of power, heat loss. Just a thought about your esc fan idea, i try to run fans on everything motors, esc's, servos even, but not on comp stuff just scale rigs to increase endurance...5000mah runs...scale freak here. lol But here is the idea.

After mounting the esc's FET's to your alum. heat sinks, can you "V" mount them (with the fins of the sink pointed up, and esc's are on bottom), mount the bottom(valley) of the "V" to the skid and the sides could rest on the chassis plates (TVP's) making the angle wide enough to mount a novak fan on top of that "V" to blow down on top of the sinks and esc's, then derive the power to operate the fan from an open channel right above it on the rec. Might have to mount the fan mid way down the V to help with it's COG factor. I figure as long as a majority of the sink sits under the fan, it should be able to keep up with heat.

Just a thought....love to think about this stuff.

[Tgreer]

Would the old brxl's have less of a heat issue than the new smaller footprint ones?

[SkaldidDog]

Originally Posted by TheAxialNut

Awesome thread.

Love all this streamlining and optimization of power, heat loss. Just a thought about your esc fan idea, i try to run fans on everything motors, esc's, servos even, but not on comp stuff just scale rigs to increase endurance...5000mah runs...scale freak here. lol But here is the idea.

After mounting the esc's FET's to your alum. heat sinks, can you "V" mount them (with the fins of the sink pointed up, and esc's are on bottom), mount the bottom(valley) of the "V" to the skid and the sides could rest on the chassis plates (TVP's) making the angle wide enough to mount a novak fan on top of that "V" to blow down on top of the sinks and esc's, then derive the power to operate the fan from an open channel right above it on the rec. Might have to mount the fan mid way down the V to help with it's COG factor. I figure as long as a majority of the sink sits under the fan, it should be able to keep up with heat.

Just a thought....love to think about this stuff.

The visual of an air cooled V8 looking set of brains is cool. I'm not going that route as the overkill sinks keep them cool enough already. Thanks for your suggestion.

Originally Posted by Tgreer

Would the old brxl's have less of a heat issue than the new smaller footprint ones?

The de-cased BRSL's ran cooler for many bigger, overpowered and heavier reasons when run with the same gauge wires all the way around. My minis are lighter even with my sinks and run cooler than the BRSLs did. And the bling factor is way higher.

JRH may chime in with the key differences between a 6S capable ESC and the minis.

J

[JohnRobHolmes]

Thermal mass, and the switching bec are why the decased brxls ran cooler

[sourdojack]

Was hoping to see beer and fruit loops on the new lid haha

[SkaldidDog]

Originally Posted by sourdojack

Was hoping to see beer and fruit loops on the new lid haha

Mmmm that hit the spot. Thanks for posting that up. That was fun...and hot. I gotta remember to bring more food to comps. I had peanut MM's for breakfast on Sat at Nats.

J

[Frankenwheely]

Originally Posted by SkaldidDog

I had peanut MM's for breakfast on Sat at Nats.

J

Breakfast of Champions...literally.
Maybe have some for the May comp.

[House]

Originally Posted by SkaldidDog

I had peanut MM's for breakfast on Sat at Nats.

Well by your results, I am going to have them for breakfast before my next comp too!