What's your favorite crawler motor?

[Cheetah928]

Looking around for good crawler motors and thought I'd ask you all. What's your favorite crawler motor? Stock? Brushless? Combo? Amazon? All suggestions welcome! I am gonna run a rc 4wd 27t in my trx-4. I like the spectrum stuff too. What do you think?

 

[TeknoJ]

Out of what I have, it would be the Puller Pro from Holmes Hobbies for 1/10 scale stuff. I've also used a Tekin Pro4 in a low Kv, it did exceptionally well. I hear a lot of good things about outrunner motors with AM32 and I look forward to trying that in my current project.

 

[Tunedfrog]

For my 1/24s I run Furitek.
My 1/10s I run both Holmes Hobbies with Hobbywing 1080 esc's.
I do have a brushless Hobbywing motor/esc combo "Quicrun Fusion Pro" but relatively new to me.

 

[Doom!]

I really like the Hobbywing Quickrun Fusion Pro esc/motor combos for 1/10 scale. They run fairly quiet and have great control.
For mini crawlers Furitek still rules the roost but there are some decent competitors

 

[nino]

I have the "cheap" HW Fusion SE in my TRX4 and it's good enough for serious crawling. A buddy went from Mamba X with various motors to Furitek combos (sensored, 10-pole, outrunner) and frankly I preferred my budget setup.

Wouldn't go back to brushed if you paid me.

 

[Chubaka]

Although I want to try the mamba x and hobby wing, my two castle copperheads are amazing.

 

[PewPewChris]

 

[Mrgoodwrench35]

I'll second the Holmes Hobbies puller pro. Probably my favorite motor. The hobbywing axe is my favorite esc with the castle copperhead a close second. The axe is far smoother and I really like the bluetooth esc adjustments on the fly.

 

[xjtorc]

Sequre 1800kv outrunner + Sequre ESCape32 ESC on 3S. I have run everything from Castle to Holmes to Hobbywing and I don’t think I’ll run anything other than this Sequre setup on any of my future rigs.

 

[TeknoJ]

Puller Pros are great motors, these outrunners that are coming out though it's all next level.

 

[Mrgoodwrench35]

Puller Pros are great motors, these outrunners that are coming out though it's all next level.

What's the point/benefit to an outrunner motor?

 

[xjtorc]

What's the point/benefit to an outrunner motor?

Larger rotor [more efficient torque] in a smaller/lighter package plus better cooling.

 

[nino]

And usually a 10+ number of poles which translates to ability to go slooow

 

[TeknoJ]

yup and yup

 

[WickedFog]

Sequre 1800kv outrunner + Sequre ESCape32 ESC on 3S. I have run everything from Castle to Holmes to Hobbywing and I don’t think I’ll run anything other than this Sequre setup on any of my future rigs.

So that is a manufacturer of drone electronics. How does that ESC compare to FOC setups? And what makes it better than the others?

 

[xjtorc]

So that is a manufacturer of drone electronics. How does that ESC compare to FOC setups? And what makes it better than the others?

All silent ESCs (Crawlmaster, SilentAssassin, etc..) are based on some version of the exact same PCB hardware originally designed for drones. They write their own version of firmware, solder on some wires, and upcharge by 50% because of their brand. Sequre is bare bones, it just works, and the guy who wrote the ESCape32 code is an actual member of the open-source community, genuinely concerned with giving people something that works vs trying to make a buck.

What makes it better than other FOC setups:

• It's smoother, slower, and runs cooler than my Crawlmaster with the same motor I have setup in my son's SCX10.
• It's WAY smoother and slower than my HW Fusion Pro and SE 1800kv. I've tested all 3 in my H10 buggy. Not even close in comparison.
• It can take up to 6S lipo and has an internal BEC capable of 12 volts. Mo Powa.
• The Wi-Fi config module allows you to make configuration adjustments from your smartphone via GUI without any additional software downloads required.
• Tiny footprint.

 

[WickedFog]

All silent ESCs (Crawlmaster, SilentAssassin, etc..) are based on some version of the exact same PCB hardware originally designed for drones. They write their own version of firmware, solder on some wires, and upcharge by 50% because of their brand. Segure is bare bones, it just works, and the guy who wrote the ESCape32 code is an actual member of the open-source community, genuinely concerned with giving people something that works vs trying to make a buck.

What makes it better than other FOC setups:

• It's smoother, slower, and runs cooler than my Crawlmaster with the same motor I have setup in my son's SCX10.
• It's WAY smoother and slower than my HW Fusion Pro and SE 1800kv. I've tested all 3 in my H10 buggy. Not even close in comparison.
• It can take up to 6S lipo and has an internal BEC capable of 12 volts. Mo Powa.
• The Wi-Fi config module allows you to make configuration adjustments from your smartphone via GUI without any additional software downloads required.
• Tiny footprint.

Good to know. I would love to see some comparison vids of this compared to some other crawler specific setups.

Oh, this ESCape ESC also allows you to play start up music! The same thing is used on my 3d printers. It plays the Star Wars Imperial March song at the end of a print by manipulating the stepper motors

 

[xjtorc]

Oh, this ESCape ESC also allows you to play start up music! The same thing is used on my 3d printers. It plays the Star Wars Imperial March song at the end of a print by manipulating the stepper motors

Yup!

 

[WickedFog]

Yup!

So you got a demo vid of that system running?

 

[xjtorc]

So you got a demo vid of that system running?

All the videos and shorts of the H10 on my channel are running the Sequre setup.