Castle Creation Woes

[sjslhill]

Spec Hydro for NAMBA

Hull $235 + $10 for color
Hardware $95.00
Flex cable assembly $24.99
Motor mount $19.99
Motor to flex coupler $9.99
Steering linkage/water boot/various connectors/cooling hose $15.99
Recommended abc prop $21.99
Aquacraft power package $159.99
Hyperion G3 5000 2s packs ($76.95 x2) $153.90
Radio/Reciever/Servo ??

$746.85 + shipping from 3 different vendors.

[Raydee]

I have owned over 24 CC ESC's in the last couple years in all my RC toys and have had a total of three failures and all in boats. none in my cars, heli's or planes. Boats are just hard on ESC's.....all of them!

[johnnyhpr06]

Awsome thread

[scoota]

I have owned over 24 CC ESC's in the last couple years in all my RC toys and have had a total of three failures and all in boats. none in my cars, heli's or planes. Boats are just hard on ESC's.....all of them!

its the same in Australia the car & plane guys swear by them , but i can tell you there are more unhappy Hydra owners on this forum than happy ones , its taken castle this long to start testing a new Hydra line , fingers crossed its BETTER then the current Hydra ....

Enough about Hydras there are better things to do in life , like run my UL1 ,OH i cant cause my CC 240 exploded & made a nice mess of the inside of my boat last weekend & by the time i could get out to my boat the hatch was half melted cause its made of plastic as you all know.........

[DesignerDan]

Just a quick update: I called Castle about the problem and they had another ESC sent out to me that day. It was sent usps priority mail and in a box. In the box was a refurbished esc and a bubble mailer with paid postage to return the other one. I soldered the connectors on and tested it out and it’s working perfectly! I’m no longer mad a Castle, they went above and beyond to get me up and running again. Every company will have some mishap with their products but it’s what they do about it that counts. I highly doubt HK would be this helpful if one of their ESCs went bad. As of right now I’m sticking with Castle.

[Hydromaniac]

Just a quick update: I called Castle about the problem and they had another ESC sent out to me that day. It was sent usps priority mail and in a box. In the box was a refurbished esc and a bubble mailer with paid postage to return the other one. I soldered the connectors on and tested it out and it’s working perfectly! I’m no longer mad a Castle, they went above and beyond to get me up and running again. Every company will have some mishap with their products but it’s what they do about it that counts. I highly doubt HK would be this helpful if one of their ESCs went bad. As of right now I’m sticking with Castle.

Thats why I run Castle , lets see HK do the same

[tsenecal]

I own a total of 18 castle products

13 mamba 25s
2 mamba micro pros
1 thunderbird 18
1 thunderbird 54
1 hydra 120

the current hydra 120 replaced a hydra 120 that melted when the datalogger said it was pullng 70 amps. it took Castle 13 weeks to replace the part that i sent in under warranty.
the hydra 120 replaced a barracuda 85 that melted when i tried to suck 110 amps through it.

the current hydra is not using the internal BEC. it is using a CC BEC. since changing over to an external BEC i have had no more issues with the hydra.

all the other CC products (mambas and thunderbirds) have worked flawlessly. to the point of spending time submerged, and working fine after allowing them to dry out.

only one mamba 25 has died, and that was because it had 65 amps running through it for about 3 minutes before it cooked.

I think CC has issues with high amp designs not working as advertised, because they use linear BECs on devices that should have either no internal BEC, or a switching BEC.

[johnnyhpr06]

Thats why I run Castle , lets see HK do the same

i feel better already thanks

[RCKong]

I talked to the Castle Tech Dept. the end of last week, and I was told they are working with a "design similar to the Ice controller", but had a "couple things they where looking at" that will improve the marine controller line. He also told me they check every controller before it leaves,
( i find that hard to believe) and would personally check my 2nd replacement ESC. Both ESC's failed with fire, after arming and throttle was applied, just testing the setup on the bench. I now have T180's running the same setups flawlessly... I told him that too.

[Fluid]

Hopefully when "testing the setup on the bench" you only blipped the throttle and didn't run it at WOT......

Not everyone has had your luck with the Turnigy180 controllers - in fact there are a lot of complaints with that controller failing just like your Castles did. I'm not taking sides here, I am as frustrated as everyone else with the spotty reliability of so many ESCs.....

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[Rumdog]

I've had Excellent luck with my Castles and my Turnigy/Seakings. Never fried an esc on plug-in. Never used an onboard bec either. Haven't ran a HV Castle controller.

[RCKong]

Nope, know better than that. No "wide open throttle" on the bench, actually it startled the crap out of me because i barely blipped the throttle, next I'm reaching into fire to unplug it.