ESC and Motor Advice

[BKMacC]

I'm currently looking into brushed and brushless systems to run in a Cyclone D4. But being a complete novice I'm not really sure what I should be looking at. I don't want to go overboard with the expense.

Any advice?

[ianhaye]

to start of with whats your budject? brusless is the only way to go really, there are no points in where brushed is better.

[BKMacC]

I was hoping to go no further than £100. Bearing in mind that I won't be racing, not at this point anyway. Really just for my own pleasure.

If I was to go brushless would this then mean I have to go down the route of LiPo's or could I still go with NiMH batteries?

[stox217]

you could still use nimh's with brushless

[BKMacC]

What would be a reasonable combo to go for?

[Si Coe]

When I first got my D4 I ran an Ezrun system (5.5t) which I got off Ebay. It was pretty much perfect for the car - fits nicely under the shell, good turn of speed but not wildly uncontrollable.
It works best with Lipos, but can be used with NiMH's if thats what you have. You'll want pinions in the 18/1920 region, depends on tyres, terrain, batts etc as to which is best, so get all three!
Don't be worried about the buy over ebay and from Hong Kong bits - delivery is normally about a week, and failures on EZruns are incredibly rare.