sensorless vs sensored?

[theloudone]

what's the difference between sensored and sensorless?

 

[rc2008]

sensored offers smooth acceleration which is very nice when crawling at low speeds and light throttle. sensorless is not as smooth and can be a little jumpy....im sure someone else can give you a better answer.

 

[ghtpdm5]

to answer completely, the sensored systems have a hall effect sensor in the can to detect the position and direction of the rotor, and sends that back to the esc to get a smooth pattern fire with no cogging. a sensorless system does not have this, and the esc basically guesses rotor direction and position. in low speed, this produces the cogging effect due to the esc firing an incorrect pattern for where the rotor is and how it is rotating. for crawlers, sensored is a must, but on mine, i run in hybrid mode, where it runs as sensored at low speed, and at higher speeds it goes to sensorless mode. just runs smoother with this setting.

 

[theloudone]

okay, thanks guys. i understand now