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Originally Posted by V6Jim
The Trackstar GenII is, in theory, exactly the same, but I had one of them and it failed during calibration. Credit to HobbyKing, they refunded me for it OK.
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Take a look at the Trackstar Gen1, I always used to use these and did reasonably well at club level winning a few finals against guys using branded equipment:
http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/s...dproduct=41121
In fact if you look on RCTech there's an entire thread on this ESC, a lot of guys in the states are raving about them saying on track they can't tell the difference between it and the branded equivalent.
I never tried the GenII in a buggy but I had a 1S Gen II in my GT12, it seemed to work well enough but was very difficult to solder up the power wires as the solder posts just unsoldered themselves from the PCB every time I tried to solder the wires to them. Eventually I just tossed the solder posts and soldered the wires directly to the PCB which didn't cause any issues. In comparison my Gen1s were always a breeze to install; I once replaced one trackside between heats using a borrowed soldering iron.
I must be honest, I did have one or two failures (I had Gen1s fitted in 3 different cars at one time) but no more than people using the more expensive stuff and HK always sorted it quickly.
The Trackstar motors are also very good but if you want a BRCA legal setup i've mated branded motors (Speed Passion etc.) with the Gen1 with no problems.