Castle Mamba Monster 2 Drivers Ed Guide

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WARNING:

This is an extremely powerful brushless motor system. We strongly recommend removing your pinion gear for your own

safety and the safety of those around you before performing calibration and programming functions with this system. Please keep your

hands, hair, pets, fuzzy purple shorts and garden gnomes clear from the gear train and wheels of an armed high performance system.

Rubber tires will “grow” to extreme size on a high speed vehicle.

DO NOT

hold the vehicle in the air and run it up to full throttle. Tire

failures at speed can cause serious injury! Make sure your tires are securely glued to the rims and check them often! Always disconnect

the battery from the ESC when you are ﬁnished using your vehicle. The switch on the ESC controls the power that is delivered to the

receiver and servo(s). The controller will always draw current when it is connected to the battery and will completely discharge batteries

if they are connected for long durations. This may cause failure of your batteries and/or ESC. Castle Creations will not warranty ESCs

damaged by batteries that are left plugged in. Castle Creations is not responsible for any damage as a result of batteries left plugged in to

your ESC.

ALWAYS disconnect your batteries after use.

Your Castle ESC is programmed to sound a tone every thirty seconds to remind

you that it is still powered.

QUICK START GUIDE

1. Solder a high quality battery connector to the ESC.

2. Mount the ESC and motor into the vehicle.

3. Plug in the 3 motor wires to the 3 motor wires on the ESC, or into the gold bullet connectors on your ESC.

4. Plug in the ESC Rx lead to the throttle channel (#2) on your receiver.

5. Make sure the ESC’s switch is o.

NOTE: if no switch is present skip to step #7

6. Plug in a battery.

7. Holding full throttle on your transmitter, turn the switch ON.

NOTE: if your ESC does not have a switch, hold full throttle on your transmitter

before plugging in the battery.

A. After a few seconds you’ll hear multiple tones and the red LED will come on with a single continuous beep.

B. Now hold full brake and after a few seconds you’ll hear multiple tones and the yellow LED will come on with a single continuous beep.

C. Now relax to neutral and after a few seconds you’ll hear multiple tones and ALL the LEDs will light up.

D. A few seconds later the ESC will arm with a double tone and yellow LED. You’re ready to go!

EASY TO USE, SOPHISTICATED ENOUGH TO WIN EVERYTHING

Castle controllers are extremely simple to set up and optimize for your application. Most users may simply plug the controller into

their motor, radio and battery and run it immediately.

Advanced users may wish to access the incredible tuning features using their Windows based PC and the Castle Link interface.

With Castle Link software you can tune the ESC exactly with point and click ease!

Note: Any mini USB cable will work with the Castle Link – you do not have to buy a “Castle” speciﬁc USB cable.

Please make sure to read this manual completely to get the most from your Castle ESC.

Summary of content (9 pages)

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WARNING: This is an extremely powerful brushless motor system. We strongly recommend removing your pinion gear for your own safety and the safety of those around you before performing calibration and programming functions with this system. Please keep your hands, hair, pets, fuzzy purple shorts and garden gnomes clear from the gear train and wheels of an armed high performance system. Rubber tires will “grow” to extreme size on a high speed vehicle.
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A WORD ABOUT BATTERIES AND CONNECTORS As with any extremely high powered electric power system, the primary limitations to ultimate vehicle performance are the batteries and connectors. Use the best batteries and connectors that you can find. The better the batteries, the more punch you’ll have! Recommended capacity for 1/18th scale vehicles is 1500mah+, 1/10th, 1/8th, and 1/5th scale recommended capacity is 5000mah+. Do not use 20C continuous discharge batteries.
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High Power Brushed Motor Mode: Using High Power Brushed Motor Mode will allow for the use of lower turn count brushed motors, and forward only operation. Make sure you change the Motor type setting to “Brushed High Power” in the ESC before using a brushed motor. Connect all three of the ESC motor wires to the negative (-) side of the motor.
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From this point on, when you connect batteries and turn the switch on, the ESC will give the initialization tone and flash after a battery is plugged in and the switch is turned on, and the arming tone will ring a second or two later. If the ESC is programmed for the Auto-LiPo setting, it will beep the number of cells in your LiPo pack between the initialization tones and the arming tones. After the arming tone plays, the ESC is ACTIVE and will respond to throttle application.
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The ESC cannot change settings itself, it only does what it is told. The next section of the manual gives a description of each of the settings and options and what you can expect when you change an option from default. Before you make changes, it is a good idea to go over the Castle Car ESC Programming Reference, marking the options you wish to change. 1. Brake/Reverse Type Sets whether reverse is enabled or not, and exactly how it can be accessed.
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Option 2: Medium Medium acceleration limiting. Good for 2WD vehicles on soft dirt, and 4WD vehicles on hard dirt. Option 3: Low Light acceleration limiting. Good for 4WD vehicles on soft dirt. Option 4: Lowest Very light acceleration limiting. Good for most situations including 4WD vehicles on dirt and asphalt, and 2WD vehicles on asphalt. Option 5: Disabled (Default) Acceleration is only limited by battery ability.
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Option 3: 5v Cuts off/limits the motor speed/acceleration when the pack gets down to 5 volts. A good setting for racing or bashing in any vehicle using 8-12 NiMH or NiCad packs. Option 4: 6v Cuts off/limits acceleration when the pack gets down to 6 volts. Option 5: 9v Cuts off/limits acceleration when the pack gets down to 9 volts. Option 6: 12v Cuts off/limits acceleration when the pack gets down to 12 volts. 8. Motor Timing Advancing the timing on an electric motor can have varying effects.
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Problem: My ESC calibrates for the full throttle and full brake positions but won’t calibrate to the neutral throttle position (yellow LED keeps flashing with single beeps). Solution: Try moving the throttle trim one way, then the other (usually towards the throttle side is best). If your transmitter has a 50/50 and 70/30 setting for the throttle, set it for 50/50 and retry calibration. Also, if you have changed the dead band to a narrower band you may want to try going back to the “normal” setting.