ESC Mountings

[Peter Brown 15Participant @peterbrown15]

Mounting Bracket

[Peter Brown 15Participant @peterbrown15]

Is there such a thing as an ESC mounting bracket or support. I haven’t had much success searching the interweb.

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Peter. Not sure I have ever seen one. Generally I use a cable tie to loosely restrain the ESC to a post or something. I have a few models with a wider aluminium bracket and tied the esc slightly tighter to it to get some heat transference to the bracket. It is important to ensure the esc is not enclosed tightly , it needs a bit of air space.

Ashley

[Peter Brown 15Participant @peterbrown15]

I have plenty of cable ties and self adhesive cable tie anchors I could use. I will give them a try.

[Mark Jarvis 2Participant @markjarvis2]

Hi Peter, if you mounted the ESC on an alloy plate then to the hull you will get some cooling to the ESC and a firm mount to the hull

Mark

[Charles OatesParticipant @charlesoates31738]

Velcro tape works for me. My ESC s don't get hot because they are working well within their capacity. so it works just fine, and it is easy to remove when I need to. Good for receivers too.

Chas.

[Tim CooperParticipant @timcooper90034]

I use Velco for nearly all the electronics in my boats. Makes it easy to move or take them out again, never had a problem with anything coming loose. One boat even uses Velco for a lead acid battery and its never moved in use.

Quite cheap at Wilkos.

Tim

[Malcolm FraryParticipant @malcolmfrary95515]

My ESCs usually just sit in an open box to stop them wandering around. Or a dab of Blu-Tak. Or if its a model with a bit of go, a Velcro pad or double sided tape. If I felt the need to heat sink an ESC, I would think that I should have got a bigger ESC.

Some early ESCs had lugs to help screw them to a wood panel (Electronize 43xx), but more often the lugs were used to be gripped by rubber bands or as an aid to a slide-in mount. Actually screwing the things down is over engineering that leads to making life difficult later.

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Mtronics ESc`s used to have (on the finned side) a central circular tunnel (if that's the right word) and this was handy to put over a post (nail, end cut off) sadly they have deleted this and the finning is that same all over.

​An open box also does it for me, easy and lets air around..

​Ashley

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

I'm with Malcolm and Chas here. It's self-adhesive Velcro every time and I agree 100% about a hot ESC being an overloaded one.

DM

[Malcolm FraryParticipant @malcolmfrary95515]

Mounting brackets – what do you mount the bracket to?

[Peter Brown 15Participant @peterbrown15]

Velcro is winning over cable ties. I’ve plenty of Velcro as I use it on my G scale locos to hold the batteries secure. Good point about what do you mount the bracket to. On my Mowe 2 Trawler the servo can be screwed in with mounts and ESC could be(if brackets were available)

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

Peter

If something isn't available then there's always the option of making one. I've used aluminium right-angle extrusion for making servo mounts and brackets for mounting on/off switches. A Junior hacksaw, a drill with fine bits and a medium-fine file are all the tools you need. Degrease the finished job with white spirit or meths and that self-adhesive Velcro will stick to it like brown-stuff to bedclothes. 1/8" birch ply is also a very useful material for such items if you glue it up with epoxy and seal it against water.

You get a double dose of satisfaction in that it will fit the job exactly and you designed and made it yourself. We used to call such activities "model-making" when I was a kid.

Dave M

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