BJoeHandley
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Is there still a market for old, used Novak Super Roosters? I'm about to pull the very, very well used one from my first Wheely King to replace with a lipo safe XL-5 and heard that people are still buying them.
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Supreme Reign
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Ooooooooor, you can keep the Super rooster and get a LiPo Battery Protector for $7.24. "When the voltage is lower than the threshold, the protector will stop the motor." Don't downgrade that ESC!!
http://www.hobbypartz.com/libaprforcar.html
http://www.hobbypartz.com/libaprforcar.html
BJoeHandley
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The XL5 will be relatively free (just need bullet connectors to solder to the motor)as I got a free Axial ESC for my SCX10, so I thought I'd play a little musical ESC's and swap the XL5 into mycrawler WK with the dark blue XJ body. I've known XL5's to put up with 3s and Titan 12t's ( how those motors put up with it, I do not know) and it's only spinning an old Trinity Monster MAXX 21t 550 motor with short gearing.
kjr2
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There are some people who still want them. I bought one about 2 months ago for $65. $50-$60 seems to be the price people will pay. There are several on eBay for $75 and $90 and theyve been on there for a looong time people won't pay it these days not when a Castle SV2 costs $60 shipped and is just as powerful and is lipo ready.
I wanted one for nostalgic purposes in my Clod though. Here is how I solved the lipo issue on my old shcools. I got this buzzer on eBay. You plug your battery balancing wires into it (the buzzer works with 1-8s) and the LED cycles the readout between ALL (8.4v for instance) and C1 (cell one 4.3v) and C2 (cell 2 4.1v). Then when the voltage gets low it goes BEEEEP BEEEEP BEEEEP really loud you cannot miss it you could hear it even if it was on a nitro.
I wanted one for nostalgic purposes in my Clod though. Here is how I solved the lipo issue on my old shcools. I got this buzzer on eBay. You plug your battery balancing wires into it (the buzzer works with 1-8s) and the LED cycles the readout between ALL (8.4v for instance) and C1 (cell one 4.3v) and C2 (cell 2 4.1v). Then when the voltage gets low it goes BEEEEP BEEEEP BEEEEP really loud you cannot miss it you could hear it even if it was on a nitro.
northerngames
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I been recently looking at them in case I do a non brushless but as said above the only reason I have not is to me there not worth 80-90 used when I can get two sv2's new for 30 more.
there is still a market for them for one's that dont want a brushless but at the same time alot are not going to pay top dollar for a old used esc that could have hundreds of hours of wear and tear on it as there is no way to tell other then "it works"
there is still a market for them for one's that dont want a brushless but at the same time alot are not going to pay top dollar for a old used esc that could have hundreds of hours of wear and tear on it as there is no way to tell other then "it works"
BJoeHandley
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I'm surprised they still get $50-$60 for one in all honesty!
Supreme Reign
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They've earned that respect. Novak made the finest dual-motor, reversing, single-battery ESC (along with Tekin's Titan). I own 2 Super Chickens and a Tekin Titan. I prefer the Titan. Both ESC's are damn-near bullet-proof when used properly. I will be using mine in scale builds
JKRacing37
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I would have to respectfully disagree. I view the Super Rooster and the "beginning of the end" of Novak's reputation of making fine electronics. Novak built a rep early on and have been coasting on it every since.
I burned up three SR's - one was admittedly my fault (snow) but the other two were being run on 7.2 volts and nothing hotter than silver cans and stock gearing. One had reverse go out on it and the other completely died.
I will say I thought the Novak Super Duty was a great ESC.
Raced VTA for a couple years and cringed when I heard that Novak was the spec system. The Havoc system had a BEC weaker than a popcorn **** and would routinely false read temps (motor and esc) and would shut down. This happened with two Havoc systems I had and then when the rules loosened up I switched to a Novak GTB that would not program. Well, it would program, but once you shut it off the program would erase. Sent it in and they would not warranty it. Pretty sweet.
This past season a friend of mine bought a Novak Edge ESC - it lasted two race nights. Jason isn't an idiot or noob either, the guy knows his stuff so it wasn't like he was running stupid gearing or trying to see if his RC could pull his 1:1. LOL
I think Novak makes a fine motor - IMO their 17.5 will run with most anything (I run two of them in stock SCT and 2wd buggy) but if I can help it I will never run another one of their ESCs again. Over on RC Short Course Novak is a dirty 5 letter word. Many have had the same issues with Novak ESCs and will not touch them with a 10 foot pole.
HawnMT
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^^^^I agree with everything John said.
They just haven't been keeping up in the esc department but their line of Baliistic motors are great. It's the early brushless stuff that was absolute crap and it just seemed like Novak didn't care. Castle came in and wiped the floor with them and now with Tekin back in full force, Novak is left in the dust.
They just haven't been keeping up in the esc department but their line of Baliistic motors are great. It's the early brushless stuff that was absolute crap and it just seemed like Novak didn't care. Castle came in and wiped the floor with them and now with Tekin back in full force, Novak is left in the dust.
