Nitride?
 

Has anyone gotten their hands on the Elceram Nitride yet? How useful is the screen in practice, and how's reliability and overall feel?

I don't have one but a few of my fellow racers do. So far no complaints about reliability and it feels really smooth. Screen seems to be a bit of a gimmick so far, the telemetry graphs aren't useful on such a small screen. The biggest complaint I've heard so far is limited access to the solder pads for changing the capacitor.

The advancement in cooling technology of course.

I have been running one for two months now and other than finding the telemetry very small and only accessible after a run before you turn it off, this is the smoothest esc I have driven in some time. The foot print is about an 1/8" more than the standard HW 10pro. I really like how simple it is to just go in the screen and change boost and turbo settings with out any other device to connect or link up. If you are interested in all the telemetry then you will be disappointed because the screen size is just to small to make it useful. Another impressive thing it does is this self diagnosis when you turn it on. I had a sensor wire failure before a race and as soon as i powered it up on the main screen in red it displayed "Sensor" letting me know that the sensor wire had failed. I plan to buy the 1/8th scale version when it comes out.

I was hoping to bump this to the top to get some more real world feedback, anyone have anything to say about their Elceram products?

Elceram make the finest esc’s on the market in my opinion, quality is beyond anything else on the market…you really need to hold one in your hand to appreciate them, and use and programming is so convenient with everything being on board. Sure they are expensive to buy, but you don’t need additional program devices to get the most out of them.

I might get one when they make it smaller and add soldering posts.

Smaller? I ran the Nitride in a TC and definitely not an issue with size. Unless you are swapping and changing from car to car the cables as they are not really an issue.

The size is an issue if you're running mod and need an ESC fan.

Cables can easily be an issue even if you're not swapping between cars. Cables can get damaged. And sometimes people want to change the gauge of wire, there's a trade off between resistance and weight.

Curious what settings people are using on this for blinky. Glenn ran one in 21.5 at WA State Titles and it was like he had a 17.5 in there, absolute rocket.