I received a couple of new Turnigy AE-45A ESCs from Hobby King in the mail a couple of days ago to test and fit into my park jet power systems😊 rcplanepirate and I have had a couple discussions about the Turnigy AE line of ESCs as he uses a 65A for the bulk of his test videos.
Instructions are on both sides of an 8.5 x 11" sheet of paper, obviously translated from another language, but understandable.😏 It comes with no connectors for either the motor or ESC, but that is pretty standard. The battery leads and three ESC leads are the same as most ESCs this size, however the leads that go to the receiver are about 50% thicker than most.
Without connectors, it weighs 42 gr/1.5 oz.
Just basic labeling and clear heat shrink protecting it.
As you can see when you click on the link in the first paragraph, it is rated for 45A continuous, 50A for a 10 second burst. Some comparisons with the Turnigy Plush 40A ESC. Note that the AE-45 has a much bigger heat sink, the heat sinks on both ESCs are covered by their labels, so I would say the heat sink on the AE-45 is about 50% bigger than the Turnigy Plush.
Side on view, everything looks about the same.
Weight with connectors is 48 gr/1.7 oz which is about 4 gr heavier than the Turnigy Plush or HobbyWing ESCs I have used previously. As mentioned, the larger heat sync and thicker receiver wires probably account for this.
I didn't bother checking it with either of my ESC programming cards as it has numerous timing settings similar to the HobbyWing Platinum PRO as well as different PWM (pulse width modulation) frequencies.
For timing, it can be programmed for 0/3.75/7.5/11.25/15/18.75/22.5/26.25 degrees (the same as the HobbyWing, factory default is again 15 degrees)
It has different PWM settings than the HobbyWing, 12 KHz and 24 KHz with 12 being the factory default. By comparison, the HobbyWing has 8 and 12 KHz with 12 being factory default. The PWM for the Turnigy Plush is not listed and low timing (factory default) for the Plush is 3.75 degrees.
I ran one quick test with AE-45A ESC using the 2212/6 2200 Kv motor, 6x4 APC gas prop and Gens Ace 2200 3S 45 C battery, links to all these components and the data is available on my motor test spreadsheet.
For discussion sake, when you look at the performance of this motor with the same battery, with factory default settings for the Turnigy Plush, HobbyWing and Turnigy AE, the Turnigy AE is better at both mid and full throttle.
At 50% throttle, it produces 20 grams more thrust than it's closest competitor (Plush) and does it slightly more efficiently when comparing thrust versus amps drawn. At full throttle, the AE-45 produces 38 more grams that it's closest competitor (HobbyWing) and again does it more efficiently comparing thrust versus amps drawn.
I have done some more advanced testing with a higher Kv motor, but I still need to evaluate that data to see what is what as I tested every timing setting and PWM frequency combo. I used the Racerstar BR2306S 2700 Kv motor to do this, so when you go to the spreadsheet, you can scroll along the bottom to find the tab for that motor to see the data.
Based on the numbers with factory default, this Turnigy AE seems very well suited to optimizing the power of the lower KV 2212/6 2200 Kv motor😊
More testing to come.😀
Park Jet noise...the "other" sound of freedom😎
Cheers,
Scott
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