Little Bee ESCs

[Coyote]

Are these still good ESCs, I read mixed reports, most admittedly claiming the failures down to the ESCs not being genuine.




I am after some 30A versions, just want to make sure that they will be reliable.

[BlueFlyer]

mate, get DYS 30A BLHeli-S ones, that's what I just got. Also, they don't have the 3 motor wires, just bare solder pads so much easier and neater build IMO.

[Coyote]

It was the DYS I wanted originally tbh. I have DYS 20'so on it now

[BlueFlyer]

http://www.banggood.com/4PCS-DYS-XS-30A-3-6s-Lipo-BLheli_S-ESC-Support-Oneshot125-Oneshot42-Multishot-for-High-KV-Motor-p-1068807.html

[Coyote]

In China though so weeks of waiting because it's Christmas :(

[BlueFlyer]

gearbest don't appear to have them as individual sale items :(

I just got free priority 10 day shipping with my order so I'm hoping mine will be here before Feb lol

[Ratty]

LBs are still decent, but very out dated now. There are reports of lots of failures too, but they were always fine for me.

TBS Bulletproof are great, but more pricey.

http://www.hobbyrc.co.uk/tbs-bulletproof-25a-blheli-s

Or the XM30 were what i was using before upgrading to TBS.

https://www.align-trex.co.uk/dys-30a-blheli-firmware-opto-mini-esc-xm30a-build-in-capacitor-solder-pad-mini-xm30a.html

[Loopdreams]

Mini quads are brilliant aren't they.  You build one with all the latest gear and a fortnight later it's just an hilariously obsolete antique.

[Coyote]

Thanks Ratty, looks like I will go with option 1 of DYS XM30A and leave the little Bee's err be.

I was going for XS30A

[Ratty]

For the price they are great, and not sure if the difference between BLHeli and BLHeli-s is really noticeable to us mere mortals.

[BlueFlyer]

The only reason I got the BLHeli-S ones is because that's what was included in the bundle deal

[luvbus]

Nowt wrong with Little Bees. It's easy enough to direct solder the esc wires. Folk were getting issues with the 20amp ones that would send a regen power spike from braking the motors back down the battery lines and fry FPV kit if it were direct wired to the battery. Easily cured by using a capacitor to smooth things out or supply the FPV kit through a regulator.

[Coyote]

Interesting thanks.

The 30A versions look very wide compared to the DYS. Just going to get some size specs.

[Ratty]

I never had that voltage spike issue, but i know quite a lot did.

The 30a's are huge. Ill see if i still have one and ill post a pic of them all next to each other.

[CurryKitten]

I hit it, was thinking I was making things easy by using the fact that the camera and vex could handle 5-22v, but the spike took out the camera.  Obviously, I've been using a PDB that'll give me 5v for rx/FC and then 12v for VTX/Camera since then.

Oh, and two of the ESCs burst into flames... mostly ok since then, but they are about to be retired off the fame that has them for a motor/esc/fc/pdb/camera (actually that's pretty much everything) swap out.