S3650-3980 Brushless Inrunner 3980kv (11T)

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Apr 12, 2014

Great motor, installed it in my Turnigy Trooper and it is almost 3 times faster than the stock (gutless) inrunner. Low heat and very very fast. Only put 2 packs through it so far but pretty impressed with it. The 5mm shaft does reduce the selection of pinion gears however. Excellent value.

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Dec 04, 2013

AWESOME little motor. It will work in just about anything from onroad to some monsters. This little motor had people at the track freaking out at my trucks power and speed. Stampede 4x4 with 40 series monster tires. BEAST MODE!!! cogs a bit only downside.

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May 31, 2013

follow up review. after owning the can of black magic for two years now.. It is still going strong. I have it in my 4wd sc truck and it is rockin steady. I am wondering how many more ponies it would put down with a 100a esc? would probably get hotter though. The 60a is working good and it is plenty fast.. I have it geared up to a 14t mod1 pinion on scrt10 and the engine temps are still good.. Really liking this motor. For the money it can't be beat. beware of the 5mm shaft.

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Oct 01, 2012

I'm running this motor in a 2WD Slash on 2S with 17/58 gearing and with a fan heatsink it stays bone cold. Temperatures reach only about 40 degrees Celsius. I'm really pleased with the motor.

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Jun 18, 2012

this motor flat out rips.. I have other other motors from other more popular brands rated at about the same KV and this thing just spanks. Not sure how else to say it. efficency may not be quite as good(?) but who cares.. it rips! i get 15-20 min run times on 40c 4400 2s packs on 1/10 4wd sc truck. I am super pleased with this little can of black magic. have no kidding, won races with it. with a HK 60a esc, stock pinion it has plenty of beans and great top end speed very minimal cogging at low speed. temps in the 125-145F range consistently. it has been in the water and just flat driven hard and never let me down. build quality could be a little better, maybe a little better seal around the input wires, but who cares, overall for the dough it can be beat.

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Apr 24, 2012

are you kidding? brushless motor for cheaper than ANY brushed motor? WOW!! all i can say is it never gets above ambient on 6c NiMH in a HPI RS4 PRO rally conversion.

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Apr 23, 2012

The actual weight of mine is 218G, it heats up pretty fast with no load, but I don't think that this will be a problem. The motor is very silent. Fits in slash 2wd, but you have to convert the gearing to 32P using jato/slash 4x4 spur and 5mm pinion.

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Apr 11, 2012

Fantastic motor i have it in my mini revo and its brilliant befor this motor i had a castle cm36 5700kv but this motor blows the castle one out of the water i run it on 2s and 3s with it geared at 28t pin 55t spur and even on the 3s its just warm to the touch 5mm shaft pinions can be got from Hotracing quite easy ust search on eBay This is a great motor and well worth the money you cant go wrong with this and the price is just brilliant nice one Hobbyking

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Mar 21, 2012

Otimo Motor, muito torque, otimo para converes...

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Feb 06, 2012

added this unit to the vxl Rustler did great! I also bought the Hk 60amp esc an used this motor with it in a Evador ext that I converted to brushless and runs smooth an on 3cell got good an warm, but not HOT, Picks front end up with no problem, very happy with this motor!!