Castle Creations Baja e-Conversion Combo

This is the Castle Creations Baja e-Conversion Combo. Its time for 1/5th scale buggies and trucks to experience electric drive. Castle has stepped up, and is providing a complete conversion for the HPI Baja family that includes the Mamba XL ESC, a Neu-Castle 2028 brushless motor, CC Blower motor cooling shroud, as well as all the metal brackets and hardware required to convert a gasoline powered HPI Baja to mind blowing electric power!

The new Mamba XL is the only controller on the market able to handle the loads required to power these surprisingly heavy vehicles to insane speeds. Castle can prove it too, as the Mamba XL features all of the standard Mamba series programming features, PLUS a first for the RC car market; data logging. The controller actually measures and records parameters such as your battery volts, amp draw, motor rpm, controller temperature and battery ripple voltage. This is a great way to make sure that the entire setup is performing within limits. It's also a great way to show that this combo is easily capable of pumping out up to 10 horsepower (peak). Additionally, Baja users can now step into the future – and actually go backwards! Those annoying walks out to free the gas powered buggies are history!

The Neu-Castle 2028, can easily run in the 10 horsepower range. The motor is sealed for survival in the dust and dirt that Baja's call home. The rotor is assembled from four individual magnets and the stator is a highly advanced slotted design made of the highest quality laminations. The shaft is 8mm, no worries of breaking this shaft.

This electric setup makes the stock gas engine look positively anemic. The Baja chassis has plenty of room for up to 8S 2P LiPo, (33.6 volts). Run times with 8S 1P 5,000 mAh class cells are approximately 15 minutes – depending on driving style. The on board switching BEC is able to lower that motor pack voltage to 5 volts, at up to 5 amps to provide the power needed by those big steering servos.

Have you ever seen a Baja doing 60mph? Be afraid, be very afraid. Then do it again.

NOTE:  Intended for use with HPI Baja 5B, 5T and 5SC vehicles. Motor and controller will work in other vehicles, but conversion kit plates are engineered specifically for HPI products.

ESC Specifications:
Max cells: 8s LiPo (33.6v)     
BEC: 5 amp         
Power Rating: 1/5th Scale RC     
Size (LxWxH): 4x2x1.6" (102x51x41mm)    
Weight (w/wires): 7.8oz. (222.4g)    
Weight (w/o wires): 4.9 oz. (140.4g)    
Wire gauge to motor: 8 gauge    
Wire gauge to battery: 8 gauge

Motor Specifications: 
Length: 4.4" (113.2mm)    
Diameter: 2.2" (57mm)    
Shaft Size: 8mm diameter x 30mm long      
Weight: 44 oz.     
Max RPM: 30,000
KV: 780      
Peak Efficiency: 92%     
Controller Required: Sensorless only
Bearings: High quality Japanese sealed bearings
Magnets: 4 pole neodymium
Stator: High quality super thin steel stator laminations

This product was added to our catalog on February 24, 2011