Wildcat1971

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This is my personal experience. Dont hate if you disagree.

1-Year warranty
2- As smoother or smoother than any other brands. The throttle and braking feel can be adjusted via PWN changes
3- All alum chassis, for better cooling
4- Small form factor. Really nice for todays tiny chassis space.
5- "My" versions have pre mounted caps on top of the esc and dont require taping them down to the chassis. again, more free chassis space
6- Hand held LCD programmer about the size of a credit card
7- 8 prebuilt profiles that you can customize to whatever and quickly load track side via a single button
8- Never had an issue with them.
9- Strong customer service presence on these boards.
10- BEC up to 7v and never had a brown out
11-shuts itself of from 1-10 minutes if not input. configurable and can be disabled


Dislikes:
1- the color orange
2- sensored ONLY. if a sensor wire break mid race your done. The HW and Orion series esc's will keep going, but cog.
3- cant run a 4x4 sct with the vtx10. Not really a huge deal, but nice to have a smallish esc to run all of your 10th scale cars. Thar sais, I used a speed passion gt2.0 pro in my scte, but sold my scte and the esc it really tight in the 22 or b5 series cars.
4) if you need a fan...maybe wheeler class ( I didnt), the viper fan system is just silly. But I have never needed a fan, so meh.






My second favorite esc's are the HW v2.1 and 3.1 class of esc's. very smooth and robust, but its size, weight and the firmware swapping are annoying. But given enough chassis space, these are pimp esc's and soooooooo under rated my most people. If you only running stock 17.5, you really cant go wrong with the HW Justock for $49.99 shipped to your door

dmatter

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Wild Cherry is a very knowledgeable racer that knows alot about Team Associated Race Cars. I have been reading his posts and talked to him a lot over the years. He is one of the best contributors to this website. I am always glad to read his posts.

Dax

dmatter

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I run a Justock with my Thunderpower 8.5 and it works fine. Put the punch on level 2 24/78 and it rips. For 48.00 bucks cant beat it with a bat.

TheBlueKnight

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Very good to know. I have two justock esc's I picked up used here on rctech for $40 each for my two crawlers. I wasn't sure if they were up to snuff to run a 10.5 or 8.5 motor in something like a 1/10 SCT or buggy 2wd.

Cridd

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I have run LRP and I like the lights and ease of use for me. I am looking at new Reedy when it comes out but not even a blurb of news on it so far. Viper is cool, have one and the cap is cool space saver. Don't love Orange, BE editions are nice looking.

Maifield has never liked the gull wing arms, I think he changed them out on his SC and T4.2's right away.

Exotek weight compared to FT carbon strap would be nice to know. Like FT look better.

B5m with 2mm trailing is great for me with standard Ackerman. Love the car, can't wait to get more track time next week.

Cridd

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[QUOTE=mugenhatchie;13115781]All other things aside, I am running the V2 mainly due to weight:

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Are those the high torque pads in the V2 slipper, how do you like?

Cridd

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B5m came in at 1590, Lunsford screw kit, shorty, V2 slipper. Got FT carbon strap coming.

Any other tips on dropping weight for stock?

vr6cj

iTrader: (124)

pucks system, alum screws and alum topshaft.

xTotalghost

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Mine all stock lunsford turnbuckles. 1613

Tradin Paint

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Low pro servo

vr6cj

iTrader: (124)

Yep, that too. Mine is at 1552. Stock mine was 1610. With shorty. When pucks comes out should be close to 1500

SilentHunter

Do you guys know the weight difference between the vented v2 and the regular v2 slipper? If there is any? The holes are pretty small

the incubus

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Well I have a reedy saddle pack that cost waaaay more than I should've spent and just 5 months later THIS happened:




Approximately 30 cycles maybe because I usually run my Trak Power saddles for qualifiers) and practice and use these for mains but 10-12 cycles in and these would lose their punch a little over a minute into a run. Did several charge and discharge cycles and it remedied the issue for a few charge cycles but then began dumping again. I decided to run them for practice and setup, but today I go to work on my 410 and saw this.

You best believe I'm calling up reedy first thing in the morning!!!

Jaz406

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I have not had an Associated car since 2007. I liked the new design features of the B5 so I bought one. Its a smooth car so far. I have noticed some play in the front trailing inserts and steering blocks after 4 nights of racing but the car still feels tight and drives crisply.

Thanks for the advice below on the slipper actually causing a pushy car. I will double check mine as I have thrown 5 different oil and spring packages at the
car without a change for the better.

SilentHunter

Try adding the set screws that the kit suggests but doesn't come with. They help lock down the inserts.