Originally Posted by
Wildcat1971
you cant really base much on a sensorless setup. Racing = sensored and bashing = sensorles. At least in my mine. The copperhead was designed as a cost saver. Which is usually bashers. I dont work for Viper and cant say for sure that I am 100% correct. But no one really makes and markets a sensorless setup for racing. They say you can race with it. Does not mean its the best for racing. I think once you run sensored, running sensorless is a very hard thing to do. If they ever get sensorless to the performance of sensored, I am totally in. I had a motors sensor board go out and it killed me esc. I was like wtf. But people told me yeah, that happens often enough, but its normal. Of your sensor cable goes bad mid race and your car stops in the middle of the track. That blows also. HW and maybe tekin over come this with dual mode. HW for sure. I unplugged my sensor after powering it up. and it kept running, but started cogging. It dropped seemed to automatically drop its self to sensorless. I think the tekin might only work in the mode you set it for. So if you set sensored, it wont work if the cable fails. There is no perfect esc and everyone has failures. it is how they handles the failures that maters. So far viper offers me 90% of what I want with a great warranty and support. Tekin only offers me about 60% of what I want, but they also have good support, but 1/2 the warranty. Tekins are ok, but you will never convince me that counting led's and blinking lights is better than a progauge that also acts a servo and lipo checker. The fact you didnt like a sensorless system does not surprise me, but I would not have written off the entire company or product line.
well if i come by a deal on a viper vtx8 or whatever it is, im liable to buy it just from the input that you have on it lol. sounds like a lot better than that crap i had.. also seen where someone once said they love viper but stay away from the copperhead stuff!.. i also agreee with the whole racing/sensor and bashing/sensorless
Originally Posted by
Wildcat1971
the exception might be the sensorless setups. It is pretty common for drivers who driver sensored to hate sensorless after the fact. I have never owned a copper head, but feel free to throw one at me to test and review, lol. If someone local owned one, I would ask to drive their car. One guy has a vtx10r with the viper 4.5 550 in a scte. I would like to drive that. I might ask this weekend.