Using a Castle ICE Aircraft Controller in FE boats

[Raydee]

You don’t necessarily need those particular extrusions. You can make (bend) some L shapes with thin copper or aluminum and use Arctic Silver epoxy (amazon) to glue 1-2 tubes on each side. If you have the original aluminum heat sinks that came with the Phoenix edge 200 — you can simply glue tubes direct on it.

Yeah I see that they changed the design of the ESC and put added a large aluminum plate to them. If I remember correctly when they first came out with the ICE lite series they were only rated at 6s and now they are rated at 8s like the regular version. I wonder if adding that plate added enough cooling to rate them a bit higher? Looks like with the new plate I will just be able to add tubes to that and call it a day. Hopefully its enough to provide the proper cooling?

[jim82]

I been running the 100s like pics I posted without any problems. Here is a 100 and 130 I did. IMG_20180728_181417390.jpgIMG_20180728_181403442_LL.jpg

[Raydee]

I been running the 100s like pics I posted without any problems. Here is a 100 and 130 I did. [ATTACH=CONFIG]160530[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]160531[/ATTACH]

Did they both have the aluminum plate on them from the factory?

[jim82]

Yea they do here I just took a couple of pics.IMG_20180728_183928572.jpgIMG_20180728_183841788.jpgIMG_20180728_183857610.jpg

[jim82]

That is a 200 I haven't finished yet

[Raydee]

That is a 200 I haven't finished yet

Ok I see now, looks easy enough.

[jim82]

Not hard at all. I been using this for waterproofing my esc's and receivers so far it has worked great.IMG_20180728_192136041_LL.jpg

[Raydee]

Nice that was going to be one of my next questions.

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[dmitry100]

Raydee, you should be okay. If you want to make it more bulletproof you can just glue aluminum/copper plates to the opposite (exposed) Bus bars and attach them to the stock aluminum heatsink. L shape here.

I did that + 2 tubes on each side of it and I pulled about 420 amps from them and I’m going to test out some higher pitch SAW props and expect amps to go a good bit higher on my hpr99 twin cat



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[Raydee]

Nice, 420 amps!

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[jim82]

420 spikes not continuous. Im spiking nearly 200 on a 100 with a 2860 5050kv on 2s

[Raydee]

420 spikes not continuous. Im spiking nearly 200 on a 100 with a 2860 5050kv on 2s

Yeah I figured. I originally started looking at the Castle air controllers back when I heard the EDF guys were pulling 400+ amps from them. Knock on wood the ones I am using have been great.

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[dmitry100]

Using a Castle ICE Aircraft Controller in FE boats

Spikes or not, i think it’s safe to say not many cheap China controllers would handle anything close

Oh and don’t forget attaching extra caps as close to pcb as possible, if you plan to exceed amp limits. I have about 5000uf of ZL 470uf rubycons on each without pony tail leads (I removed the stock caps). Placed (4) of those in the front

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[Raydee]

Just curious what diameter shrink wrap you guys are using on the edge 200 controllers after you water cool them?

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[jim82]

I will check when I get home