I was speaking with the tech at Castle Creations today and I asked him why there isn't an ESC between the Talon 35 and the Talon 90.  He indicated that Castle is currently in the design phase for a Talon 60 ESC and they are interested in some feedback regarding the features to include.   This is good news as the Talon series has all of the Castle-Link programmable governor functions of the Phoenix ESC's, just no data-logging functions.  The Castle tech indicated this new ESC should hit the market in 3 months or so.  Target price would likely be under $55.00-60.00

There is a on-going debate with the design team at Castle regarding whether to include an aluminum heat-sink or not.  I told him for control line use, we can do without the heat-sink for weight savings.  He agreed.

This 60 amp ESC fills a hole in the price/features/Amp capacity lineup.  The 35 amp continuous rating of Talon 35 doesn't give enough over-amp capacity for even moderately sized planes which limits it's use, IMO.   Motors such as the E-Flite Power 15 and Cobra 2820/12 run on 4S packs are on the upper/ragged edge of Amp capacity with the Talon 35 without much margin for error.  A 60 amp continuous rating would comfortably handle anything from a Power 15 through a Power 32 sized motor without much worry of letting the magic smoke out. (with exception, of course, crashing and other catastrophic events, biblical plagues, nuclear holocaust, ect)

So if you have thoughts about a mid priced, Castle ESC, and/or the desired software features, reply to this thread.  I told the tech I would put a post up here at Stunthanger to spread the news and he indicated that he was very interested in reading about the response to the forthcoming Talon 60 ESC.

The Talon series of ESC's do not have the data logging capabilities of the Edge and Ice ESC's.  That is basically it.
All of the governor functions are the same between the Edge and Talon series.

The upcoming Talon 60 will (hopefully) just be a software lite version of the Edge Lite 50.  That's good news!

I'm definitely looking forward to trying one out.

Couln't they just borrow an old Jeti Spin 66 non-pro and find what is so special in it (reaction time, pwm and etc.) as it's been the only esc working properly with active timers.
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Vitalis P.

Simple solution:  If you're using Igor's active system then you're just going to have to buy the original Jeti Spin ESC's directly from him.  He reportedly has them made for him by Jeti in small batches.

The Fiorottii Active system is reported to be compatible with the Spin Pro ESC.

Let's try to keep the ESC discussions pertinent and focused on the Hubin / Castle based systems.

Then all they have to do is to implement unprotected acceleration mode in Control Line mode settings and make it so, that it could not be used by heli guys in any ways.

I do not think there is any "compatibility" issue with active timers. The point is speed of regulation, simply motor must quickly react to all commands from timer in governor mode. But governor modes are primary developed for helis and the last thing you want with heli is quick rotor head acceleration with such large rotor. Means what you want is quickest ESC possible. And so far it look that Spin non Pro without "heli rotor protect stuff" in "3D mode" does the thing best. Unfortunately new PRO version does not have those special modes (it was not used by normal RC guys only by us, so it was removed fot simplicity and lower price), so even quickest setting in PRO version is visibly slower than we need.

And there is also no "look and copy" way. The point is proper tuning of PID regulator in governor and it is not trivial thing and certainly no if-then-else programming :- ))

Igor,  do you have any specific ESC performance parameters that must be met for your active timer system?  If so, perhaps we can have Castle Creations look at a special mode or a revision of the current programming which could make the Castle ESC's perform at the speed necessary to be completely compatible and viable for use with your active system.

Igor, has anyone looked at or tried the Turnigy 60 Super Brain 60 AMP ESC https://hobbyking.com/en_us/turnigy-super-brain-60a-brushless-esc.html? It is advertized as "ultra fast microprocessor controlled". I have a couple of local helicopter pilots that are using them now. They have stated that response time is better.

For those that might be curious.  The Talon 60 is now in production and available.  Has all of the governor functions and programming of the Ice and Edge esc's, just no data-logging. The Talon 60 can handle 6S / 25.2V, 60 amps.  The BEC is rated for 20 amps peak and 8 amps continuous. 

http://www.castlecreations.com/en/talon-60-6s-25-2v-60-amp-esc-with-20-amp-bec-010-0163-00

This is a good option for anyone with a medium/large airplane wanting to get into a Hubin timer compatable system for a reasonable cost.  Looks like you can get into one of these for about $60.00 from various sources.  I'm excited to try one out later this spring.