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Re: Reliable High Discharge Lipos
The astroflight's are about the highest performance brushed motor's available, certainly the best performance to weight for robot use. Back when the weight limit was 12kg and things weren't just too easy to build to we had to work very hard to get robot's in the weight so astroflight's were an excellent choice for drive then. Now, there's not much point spending that sort of money as you can quite easily put heavyweight bosch 750's in a feather for drive and still be within weight.
Because high performance motor's are designed for low stress loading in RC planes etc, then are built lightweight and have brass screws holding them together. It means theyre not that good for slamming between directions and high impacts. The front and rear cases need to be loctited together and really need a brace at the back of the motor. Satans mutt was built in such a rush (7 days) that we never got round to making the rear braces and so eventually the motor cases twist and puts the timing out and they burn up. That will be sorted by going to brushless which for discs is much better. For drive though - I'll still use the astro's, awesome motor's.
They used to be the motor of choice for all the old spinners and good pushers.
The astroflight's are about the highest performance brushed motor's available, certainly the best performance to weight for robot use. Back when the weight limit was 12kg and things weren't just too easy to build to we had to work very hard to get robot's in the weight so astroflight's were an excellent choice for drive then. Now, there's not much point spending that sort of money as you can quite easily put heavyweight bosch 750's in a feather for drive and still be within weight.
Because high performance motor's are designed for low stress loading in RC planes etc, then are built lightweight and have brass screws holding them together. It means theyre not that good for slamming between directions and high impacts. The front and rear cases need to be loctited together and really need a brace at the back of the motor. Satans mutt was built in such a rush (7 days) that we never got round to making the rear braces and so eventually the motor cases twist and puts the timing out and they burn up. That will be sorted by going to brushless which for discs is much better. For drive though - I'll still use the astro's, awesome motor's.
They used to be the motor of choice for all the old spinners and good pushers.
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