Hello Everybody, I am a newb to this forum however I am most certainly not a newb to using RC grade equipment on custom or completely home made rides. I have been doing this for about 4 years now, my first project was a small pocket bike powered by a 63-74 outrunner with a way over sized Monster 2000 - 200A controller. Now I have a self re-wound 80-100 outrunner, the turnigy 120-70 outrunner, a fatboy 300 V2 ESC and a 420A 24S ESC by aliens as everyone seems to be so curious about. Now I was skeptical of this 420A 100V controller at first as I'm sure many of you are. I started with the 80-100 in a pocket dirtbike but recently over the winter made a very large stand up scooter. I have a 12s x 20Ah lipo pack inside and my 80-100 running a 12 inch wheel on a 1:6 ratio. when I started test rides I was using the Fatboy 300 V2 and I was loving it. top speed is around 65 km/h and it boots up there in about 3-3.5 seconds. The only thing I didn't like about the fatboy was that it would loose synk with my motor and stall if I hit the throttle too hard which which is only about all the freaking time. I had to be careful with how i accelerated, then I found alien power systems and i am a true believer. I programmed the alien ESC, threw it in my scooter and gave 'er a try and sdhflasjdhfiluSDFIUhswdfiuhasdfiul it was sooooooo much better!!!!!!! This thing has a bit more initial kick starting up the motor but it keeps sync amazingly, accelerates way faster, its easier to program, more programming parameters, handles more power in a smaller package and makes more efficient use of the power! first time i got onto a gravel pathway i gunned it and this thing did a huge burnout! I didnt think my motor was capable of this but turns out it was my crap fatboy. now my 0-65 times are in the 2-2.5 range, its got way faster acceleration then most average cars and believe me, ive been racing all my friends
My scooter peaks around 8KW but i have easily done 2-3 minute long full throttle runs averaging 3-4KW continuous and the ESC was nice and warm but not as hot as ive felt other ESC's thats for sure. This ESC blew away every expectation i had for it and then laughed in my face, and as if that wasn't enough, the sellers communication was better then any seller anywhere ive had to deal with on the internet, he is the best of the best! i know he is a very busy guy but i almost always got a reply answering the 10 questions i would ask in my one email within 1-6 hours. the shipping was super fast and i am still in contact with this guy showing him all the stuff im making. I made a custom brushless 125 pit bike from the 120-70 outrunner i have and it is crazy! outperforms the origional 125cc 4 speed it had in it not to mention being 15 lb lighter! the only problem with it is that is has taken the lives of 2 fatboy 300 speed controllers, one original and one V2. thats when i had enough and bought the alien but after using it in my scooter i want to leave it there and get another one! im going to use my current fatboy in my pitbike and let it kill that too so i have an excuse to get another alien! I have posted a link to a youtube vid my friend put together of us riding around. im on my old pocket bike and he is on his custom brushless mountain board. it is not the best video however you can see what we do. it was filmed from an iphone which is hard to hold while riding, we have new videos from a go-pro helmet cam and are in the process of uploading a new video maybe by mid summer. i will post pictures of our stuff sometime if people would like to see!
I guess what im really trying to say with all of this is BUY AN ALIEN ESC!!!! im sure you will love it as much as i do!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ97uzfwP3U
