SunnySky Edge R2305 2800 Kv motor additional bench testing with different ESCs

Hi Everyone -

While testing another motor, I did some more testing with the SunnySky Edge R2305 2800 Kv motor.😊  You can read more about my initial impressions and bench testing on this motor at this blog post and my initial field testing at this blog post.

You can read the full details on my motor test spreadsheet.  This motor continues to be quite "amp hungry" regardless of the ESC.

Of the three ESCs, Turnigy Plush 40A, HobbyWing Platinum PRO 40A and Turnigy AE-45, it seems to like the Turnigy AE-45 with the custom settings of 22.5 degrees timing and 24 Khz.  It showed a slight improvement at mid throttle over the Plush and the best improvement of all three ESCs at full throttle.  Here are the numbers for the Turnigy AE-45A ESC with 6x4 APC gas prop on 3S.  Links for all of these available on the spreadsheet.

50% throttle - 14.9A/179.5W producing 565 gr/19.9 oz of thrust;

100% throttle - 45.3A/506.1W producing 1065 gr/37.6 oz of thrust.

So this amp draw is pushing the ESC to it's base limit, I will have to field test it to see if there is any significant heat build up in either the motor or ESC, but I was happy to see some improvement😀

Park Jet noise...the "other" sound of freedom😎

Cheers,

Scott