{"id":1704,"date":"2003-06-15T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2003-06-15T20:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2003\/06\/15\/i-dont-want-a-brushless\/"},"modified":"2003-06-15T12:00:17","modified_gmt":"2003-06-15T20:00:17","slug":"i-dont-want-a-brushless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/15\/i-dont-want-a-brushless\/","title":{"rendered":"I Don&#8217;t Want a Brushless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, the more I stare at speed 400 brushless motors, the less I think I  want one. It basically comes down to:brushed vs. brushless speed 400 motor<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brushless is 20% more efficient (making for potentially 20% longer flights)<\/li>\n<li>Brushless is $200 ($100 motor, $100 ESC), brushed is $40 ($10 motor, $30    ESC)<\/li>\n<li>Brushless provides 2x the thrust per lb of motor (drawing about 1.6x the    amperage&#8230;) (average 400 brushed motor is about 3 oz) giving me the    opportunity to push the throttle such that I&#8217;ll use up the battery really darn    quick.<\/li>\n<li>top level flight speed goes from about 50 mph to about 70 mph<\/li>\n<li>Brushless improves powered handling considerably<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m not into electrics for super vertical performance. I&#8217;d switch to .90cc  glow engines for that. So I&#8217;ve been looking around and I&#8217;ve got a lot of other  options besides plunking down $200&#8230; \u00a0 I could switch to a high performance  speed 480 motor, an 8&#8243; x 4.5&#8243; prop and get 3\/4 of the way toward a  brushless for under $20. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hobby-lobby.com\/speed600.htm\">Hobby  Lobby reference<\/a>. Or a Rocket 400&#8230; or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zagi.com\/html\/zagipusher400.html\">new  Zagi Speed 400<\/a> for $10. I&#8217;ve got a lot of options that cost a heck of a lot  less than $200. Hey, $200 would get me a lot of Estes model rocket engines&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve started ripping the old covering off the plane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, the more I stare at speed 400 brushless motors, the less I think I want one. It basically comes down to:brushed vs. brushless speed 400 motor Brushless is 20% more efficient (making for potentially 20% longer flights) Brushless is $200 ($100 motor, $100 ESC), brushed is $40 ($10 motor, $30 ESC) Brushless provides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}