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Old 12-23-2021 | 03:36 PM
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Default NOT ZTW...

After inspection and initial setup, including removal of fan/heatsink for application of better thermal paste, this ESC has the same FETs and PCB layout as my Hobbywing XR10 Pro LEGACY model ESC. The ZTW is longer, the ZTW has Caps mounted onboard the PCB and the ZTW's PCB layout is entirely different from the Hobbywing and SurpassHobby ESCs. I am an computer+electrical engineer...I'm not just visually matching products. Also I have used and verified that the Hobbywing LCD Program Card does NOT work with this Surpass TS160v2 Pro ESC.
BTW, everyone should stop the "who makes this or that?" when it comes to Chinese made parts. China does NOT use Company Names, Model numbers or upc codes. They are NOT a free market system and when you see these makes and models they are ONLY for the free trade world and China conforming to our systems of market. That said if you look into where these "brands" come from you will see it's all from Shenzhen China. The manufacturing plant is massive and products made in Shenzhen are usually made in varying degrees of quality and where we get our different brands and different qualities. Sometimes this is done purposely and other times it's done by a product "failing" quality control and simply marketed as a cheaper product under yet another "brand name" marketed to the free world. Surpass, HobbyQueen, HobbyWing, GoolRC, etc are all made in the same plant, sometimes spilntering off at some point of assembly to be branded either as a higher quality or lower quality product.
Shenzhen, not a brand or model, "Shenzhen Tech Co., LTD.".

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