Tamiya TBLE-02 Brushed or Brushless ESC came with Midnight Pumpkin

[whale22]

HI All-

I ordered a Midnight Pumpkin "just for fun" and opened it this morning and was somewhat surprised to see it came with the TBLE-02 ESC. The only "upgrades" I was going to add to it were a Sport Tuned and some oil filled dampers. Now I am wondering what the best use (if any) is for this ESC.

The reason why I ask is that I have two other basher buggies: Tamiya Hornet (Stock ESC and Sport Tuned) and a DF-02 Rising Storm (Stock ESC and GT Tuned). Both of the buggies are ball raced and the DF-02 has some aluminum hop-ups including the drive shaft.

I'm 40 and pretty much my RC knowledge stalled in 1991 and that's fine with me

Question: In the spirit of speed and fun would it be worth moving my current ESC and GT Tuned motor from the Rising Storm into the Midnight Pumpkin and using the TBLE-02 with a brushless motor in the Rising Storm as it is the most "modern buggy" I own.

I run 5000 mAh 7.2 V 6 cell NiMH batteries with the Tamiya connector and don't really want to go LiPo.

Is this even worth it? What brushless motor would you suggest, if any?

http://www.amazon.com/Tamiya-54252-000-tamiya/dp/B003ULOMBO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1412516391&sr=8-2&keywords=TBLM+tamiya

Cheers!

[ChrisRx718]

The compatible Tamiya Brushless motors seem very expensive in the grand scheme of things, and not many people have posted experience of using other brands of sensored brushless motors.

I personally bought one with the intention of using it with a silver can motor or at most a Sport Tuned until more people have tried the brushless alternatives.

I can also highly recommend upgrading to lipo if you're going to be into the hobby for any length of time, the difference is night and day....

[qatmix]

Every sensored motor will work (As long as its in the compatible range) Tamiya will only recommend its own motors as thats what it always does. I have used the following makes

Trackstar

Towerpro

Hobbywing

Reedy

Muchmore

It will not work with sensorless motors.

The esc is also perfectly good to run in the Lunchbox. If running a hotter brushless motor on the esc off road I would recommend a Fan to be fitted to the esc.

[Butler]

You mean every sensored motor will work.

[alfagta]

i have posted in several threads about my experience with the tble-02s and lots of brushless motors , here it is again , if off road on grass with grippy tyres then the esc has a 13.5 limit regrdless of gearing it would seem , in low grip conditions or on road it has a 10.5 limit , as qatmix said , any sensored brushless motor will work , the tble-02s runs far cooler when in brushless mode , even with the torque tuned and lowest gearing it runs HOT ,

for bashing (should we say general hobby use ) go for a nice cheap reliable turnigy trackstar 13.5 or similar from hobbyking , if you are loaded or have a 'proper' tamiya fetish then you can get a tamiya motor , if you race then you will need a homologated motor from the lists ,

have fun

[berman]

Remember it only has a LiFe cut off (5.0v) no LiPo (6.0v) cut off, so buy a cheap alarm or stick to your nimh's

[Vrooom666]

I has same ESC, in the end i put Speed passion ultra sportman 13.5T motor. it is really smooth and very battery efficent. it took about 30min of full throttle driving to drain my 2000mah nimh battery, in my lunchbox. it has lots of torque at low end, but not much at the top end. Brillant esc once I worked out how to adjust it. I drilled a hole on top of ESC's button to make things lot easier.

[XV Pilot]

I have two of them now, one running a budget Hobbyking 13.5t sensored brushless, and the other running a midrange 27t brushed motor. Setup is simple enough in a darkened room that lets you see the LED colours more easily. (The red and orange look quite similar under strong light.)

I also run NiMH batteries, and while I am sure LiPo would be faster, NiMH works just fine, with no brownouts or other such issues.

I think you will be pleased with the results if you put it in your Rising Storm. I was very impressed with mine when I put it in my TT01 along with the 13.5t and 25/55 gearing. It was a good bit faster than the TZ I was running before, and that wasn't exactly slow.

[whale22]

Thanks Gents. Great advice. I'll grab one of the 13.5t motors and give it a go.

[steelo]

I know this is a fairly old thread but I purchased a neewer 13.5T brushless that I use in my M-05. It works GREAT with the TBLE-02 ESC...barely gets warm. I think as long as it is a sensored brushless above 10.5T for offroad/13.5T for onroad you'll be fine... The ESC is just a pain in the butt to set up.

[whale22]

Thanks...I ended up dropping in a Hobbywing QUICRUN 1060 brushed and a HPI thunderbolt 15T brushed motor in my Pumpkin. I run it with 5000 mAh NiMH. I get about 30 minutes per pack and the sucker screams with this set-up.

I'm running it with the standard 10T pinion but *could* move over to a 12T pinion as I have an adjustable motor mount. That idea has been met with skepticism on this board.

The QUICRUN 1060 was $22 USD delivered and by far the EASIEST ESC I ever installed. The jumpers are sooo much better than the beeping game Tamiya has us play. It even has a LiPo cut-off. Good stuff.