Bec for 600 pro

[rich-6]

I should have an ar7200bx arriving tomorrow and I'm looking to ditch the align regulator and upgrading it to something better and able to provide more amps for a flybarless conversion.

I'm running the 610 and 650 align servos and already have a 2s lipo I've been using a while. I've done a fair bit of searching around and Western robotics seems to be a reputable brand, I came across the one in the link below which looks to be ok, What I like about it is it gives an indication on the batterys state of charge (something i like about the Align unit) and I prefer to keep everything separate rather than running everything off the flight packs.

Hercules BEC Linear 2S 10amp WRL-HBEC-LE

What do you think to it? Does anyone else fly with one?

[jimmyhorns]

I dont get why you would want to avoid running of the flight packs.

Running off the flight packs means you will always have freshly charged packs onboard (hopefully)

Its extra weight you dont need, and another thing you need to charge.

Im running a hercules bec on my 7HV and a castle bec pro on my 600e, and have had no problems with either, but run them off the flight packs

[bigpops]

I'd rather run lifepo4 pack than a 2s lipo and regulator. Your servos can run off lifepo4 direct, but you'd lose the ability to monitor its state of charge.

That said, if I did have to run a reg (say my servos were 4.8v only) then I'd go with either a western robotics or a gryphon.

[snotvis]

I run the castle bec pro, from one of the main packs - so 6s. With that said also ALWAYS use a scorpion backup guard, just in case. Never had any issues (except with a Gryphon extreme....)

[mahbouni]

Some interesting test results

Power supply | VStabi

[George J]

Gryphon Agena, run it off one flight pack. I've used them in 700's with zero issues. I've got Gryphon regs in my nitros as well, work perfectly.

[JamieD]

I've had brown out issue on my stock 600 pro DFC. The align regulator isn't powerful enough to power the servos on a DFC rig. I changed to the castle ESC. My tip would be to run the castle BEC pro from one 6s pack rather than 12s. The first BEC I got went up in smoke when I tried to run it off 12s.

[JamieD]

http://www.rcheliaddict.co.uk/castle...astle-bec.html

[bigbladelittleblade]

I use a Western robotics on my Goblin 700 and have never had any problems, they are very good and reliable

[Downdraft]

Castle BEC Pro's here on all my big birds running from one of the 6s packs on the negative side of the ESC. It's always worked a treat for me. On my most expensive machines I do use a scorpion backup but only for piece of mind.