Vintage ESC's

[Shodog]

Recently I was able to score a whole load of NIB vintage ESC's some are from Victor engineering and a few others. My question is when did ESC's come about? The paper work from the victor is dated 10/85

Jim

[mr_pushrod]

I aquired a Novak NESC-T4 which (according to the people at Novak) was mid eighties. Wouldn't mind finding out more about it, like why it's got less control than a 3 step, lol. Am hoping it isn't mullered[8)]

[Woober Goober]

Ah the ole T-4. The first ESC I ever bought- got it back in 1990. I still use it to this day! I think I have one which was from the early 80's, but am not positive. It is made by Dialed Racing Products- a little rectangular unit with heatsinks. I plugged it it, and by god, it works. If anybody wants to see what it looks like, I can post a pic in this thread.

Scott

[Shodog]

quote:Originally posted by Woober Goober

Ah the ole T-4. The first ESC I ever bought- got it back in 1990. I still use it to this day! I think I have one which was from the early 80's, but am not positive. It is made by Dialed Racing Products- a little rectangular unit with heatsinks. I plugged it it, and by god, it works. If anybody wants to see what it looks like, I can post a pic in this thread.

Scott

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I also got a a few of the Dialed Racing products ESC's also. It turns out they were made in Campbell CA which is only about 15 minutes from my house.

[Incredible_Serious]

I have a Racing Master RM7 at home, enormous box with a separate relay in another box... came out at about the same time as the Tamiya RM Mk1 Lola, as that's where I got it from... will put some pics in my showroom if I get time...

Alex

[Shodog]

Has anyone heard of a turbo zeta? it's a huge speed control that has an aluminum case and a separate programmer.

[GPZ1000RX]

Bought my first electric RC car in 1977, The ID Electronics "Spectron" it came complete with a full on pulse width proportional speed control. Nothing like as powerful as todays 500amp FET jobs (35turn motors were standard then!) but exactly the same in principle.

[terry.sc]

Used to race an AYK RX2000 in 1980 with a Demon ESC. Later I added the Turbo conversion which was a relay that worked when you reached full speed to bypass the single transistor.

Novak were quite late in the market, they didn't have an esc until 1985.

[GPZ1000RX]

The Demon ESC was designed and marketed by one Nick Adams. He is still in business as Demon Products and a regular at Aldershot club.

You can find his ad in RRC and RR magazines fairly frequently.

[terry.sc]

K0iginally posted by GPZ1000RX[/i]

The Demon ESC was designed and marketed by one Nick Adams. He is still in business as Demon Products and a regular at Aldershot club.

You can find his ad in RRC and RR magazines fairly frequently.

Still buy stuff from him, he's one of the best sources for Tamiya F1 parts, and would always recommend his motors.

[bholio]

I just picked up a car from 1979 with an ESC.

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.a...id=21990&id=214

I haven't run it, no idea if it works. ESC is the big box on top of the battery. The tower behind it the the heatsink for the ESC.

[GPZ1000RX]

Yep Nick (Mr Demon) is mainly a motor and battery man, his gear is the equal of anything you'll get anywhere if you're not a "works" driver and usually cheaper! He will custom make packs and motors for you too.

If you know what you want, give him a ring on 01252 343132

[DJTheo]

Cool, I remember his motors and ESCs dominated the race scene in the 80s! [8D] Must be nice talking to such a legend as him or Mr. Reedy etc., once I had a problem with my Yokomo tourer and called the german distributor and on the other side was Christian Keil himself, another old champion! []

[Scorpn]

Hiya, Even Tamiya brought the original Adspec out in the late eighties (1987 I think)with receiver ESC combo!