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Opinions on the DasMikro 2S6A ESC

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Hi Roboteers!
What is your opinion on this ESC and does have a built in BEC or a way of stepping down the voltage from my 7.4V LiPo?
Thanks.
http://www.banggood.com/2S6A-Micro-Dual ... 32413.html
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Re: Opinions on the DasMikro 2S6A ESC

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Shakey wrote:This should help:
http://robotwars101.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2504

Of particular interest is my comment hereL
http://robotwars101.org/forum/viewtopic ... 504#p57290
Thanks for the quick reply, I'm a complete beginner to this hobby and from what I gather your quote recommends a resistor for each motor but I don't quite understand how this would step the voltage down for the receiver?
Thanks for helping out and sorry for my ignorance haha.
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It has a built in regulator.

In my post you can see I talk about the resistors in order to generate a braking effect for the motors. Without this the robot is much harder to drive. That part doesn't have anything to do with voltage regulation.
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By the way, I soldered a resistor on each motor, as recommended on the other thread. They're getting really hot, though--pardon my electronics ignorance, but is this normal? Okay?
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tomchaps wrote:By the way, I soldered a resistor on each motor, as recommended on the other thread. They're getting really hot, though--pardon my electronics ignorance, but is this normal? Okay?
They'll get warm, if they're getting too hot though just increase the resistance a bit. It's not an exact art, the lower the resistance the more aggressive the braking but the hotter they'll be.
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There appears to be three variations of this ESC, which would you reccommend and which resistors do you think would work best?
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Option A, and as I wrote in the post about resistors I found 50 Ohm to be a good option.
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