I've run my ICE 100/PiStix combo (from OSE) numerous times in my SprintCat 40/60 driving a Scorpion HK4025/6 on 6S1P, and it has been interesting. Through the logging feature I discovered I was pulling more amps than I thought I was - on one run the current peaks were 170A and the ESC reached 290F! I had a fan circulating air inside the hull but not blowing directly on the ESC.
On-the-water rpm were just as expected, but battery voltage (old FlightPower 30C/4500s) dropped a lot further than I had thought they would under load, down to under 3.3 volts per cell at 150 amps. Guess I need new packs or should be running 2P. This is really too little ESC for the setup, but I wanted to see what it would do.
The ICE 100 had no issues for me, it was pretty much plug-and-play. As long as I didn't set the LVC too high it ran as long as I wanted. I was shocked it did not thermal at the high temperature it reached on one run, but some documentation I read somewhere said it had a temperature cut off of well over 200F. I ran it with AUTO CALIBRATING THROTTLE, 15 degrees timing advance, 3.1 volt LVC, NORMAL current limiting, SOFT START, and OUTRUNNER MODE for PWM. The PiStix was completely transparent - thanks Andy!
So far I'm very satisfied with the ICE and there were no surprises other than the lack of thermal shutdown. I'll probably get a higher-amp version of the ICE for the SprintCat and use this one in the LSH or another Spec-powered boat.
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