I’m in the market to buy all new speed controls for my rides, which includes 1/10 2wd and 4wd buggy, and potentially truck if I decide to pick one up. I’m looking at the various high-end escs on the market. I notice that Sanwa makes escs, and they’ve got the super vortex gen2. I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with these, and if so, how are they? How would you rate them in terms of performance, durability, and ease of programming? How do they stack up against other brands? I notice I never see anyone at the track with them, but that might just be because Sanwa is not really known for escs.

If not the Sanwa, what other brands/models should be high on my list?

Thanks!

No, I specifically did my own thread so I could attract responses from a wider range of people, instead of posting in that thread where there are likely tons of questions being asked at the same time and mine gets ignored, and the quantity and quality of responses is compromised.

Not that I have a ton of experience with other ESC’s but i did use a Tekin rspro before I used the SVgen2’s. The Tekin was great the software was decent it it felt old. not that I care about how it looks because it did what it was promised to do.

The SV seems to be as smooth and controllable. Its pretty robust considering i had some intermittent shorts to the motor for a while and the driver section survived. Being able to change the esc parameters on the fly from the radio is very convenient. Motor/esc temperature, speed, and voltage over telemetry with no sensors or wiring is awesome.

something that I havent heard anyone talk about is the maste/slave curves you can create in the radio to create ratios between any parameter is very helpful. You can ratio steering to esc or im betting boost to rpm with very finite points. an example for master slave of esc to servo. My car developed tweak one day in practice. Every time i accelerated hard it would pull to one side. I created an electronic gear ratio between the servo and esc so that every time im above 5000 rpm the steering servo would go slight left to counteract the car shooting to the right. It worked and takes literally 1 minute to adjust.

I also setup a 3 wire pwm fan to go from low to high speed based on the motor temperature based on a second master slave. I think the ESCs are as good as any ESC but they are one piece of the system that can do some really complicated stuff as a whole.

Does anyone have any experience with these? https://hobbyking.com/en_us/hobbykin...___store=en_us
Just wondering if they’re worth their salt in terms of performance and durability. How dio they stack up against the highend name brand escs?

I got a SVZ and love the programming through my MT-44 and decided to get the Vortex Gen 2 and now I am stuck on upgrading the codes 10 firmware on my MT-44.

What are you stuck on? Hold the button down on sv to enable read/write from the transmitter

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I need to update the codes 10 firmware on my MT-44.
SANWA
Having problem downloading the firmware to my TX.

i dont have an mt44 but based on the same functionality in the m12 the directions you are posting are for templates. templates are like a saved game that someone else created for text descriptions and hardware combinations. firmware is the actual game,

im sure somewhere under system is a program or about option and once you unpack the firmware to the sd you can enable the load new firmware. Get the real firmware file and look for directions where you got them. More than likely the firmware will be a zip file or something that you unzip. Probably a bin file and a txt file. the txt is your directions.

Thanks for the info, will give it a try again.