I'd like to update my opinion/stance on alien/flier escs. They seem to work well....when they are working. However. From my experience and experience of friends and a couple customers I've worked with, they seem to have a limited lifespan for some reason. 10-15 maybe 20 runs seems to be the norm. Honestly I'm guesstimating the amount of runs but it's not a whole lots of run time. The Fightercat that was in my original shocker seemed to last the longest. I sealed up the cooling block and epoxy coated it. Not sure if that helped but the boat changed hands three times before the esc went out. Then my buddy had an alien 300 go out after very few runs. So I'm on the fence about them. Nothing is foolproof though. I burned up MGM, swordfish, castle, seaking etc so who knows what the most reliable is. I have had the least problems with the castle escs I've converted to water cooling. Hell I sold my mini Rivercat with a mamba monster 2 in it I converted to water cooling and that guy drives that boat almost every week at the lake behind his house. Never had an issue with it. I built that years ago and modded that esc back then. My suggestion is to wait and see how the new swordfish escs stack up. And castle has a couple new marine escs coming out in the near future too.
32" carbon rivercat single 4s 102mph, 27” mini Rivercat 92mph, kbb34 91mph, jessej micro cat(too fast) was
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