Gale - Electronic Speed Control

[yachty]

So I brought an old Schumacher C-Car Pan Car and it came with this ESC. So cottage industry was RC Cars back then it came with hand written instructions! Does anyone no anything about them? here are some pics.

[V12]

David Gale is a famous name in British 1/12 racing, former European Champion in Pro10 also from what I recall. I remember he was matching batteries and made also a speedo. I think sold as Galeforce. RRC magazine should be a source for more informations. Found at the Bay?

[jwscab]

very cool find.

[yachty]

David Gale is a famous name in British 1/12 racing, former European Champion in Pro10 also from what I recall. I remember he was matching batteries and made also a speedo. I think sold as Galeforce. RRC magazine should be a source for more informations. Found at the Bay?

Great info thanks I will look out for some early magazine and see what I can find. Reasonably sure this speedo has never been used by the cables. I brought the car without knowing there was even a speedo so this is a added bonus.

[fakiee]

That is seriously cool!

[notarex]

That's a real neat piece of history! Are you going to run it or shelf it?

[yachty]

That's a real neat piece of history! Are you going to run it or shelf it?

Definitely shelf it I wouldn't trust myself wiring it up and I am offroad focused. I almost didn't post this as I dismissed it as not of any interest to anyone.

Glad I need a set number of posts to get access to the buy and sell else I wouldn't have known anything about this ESC. Great community RC10 Talk been stalking it for years!

[V12]

Interested to see the technology used at this ESC. Could you show more pictures please, from bottom also?

[notarex]

There is a market for these sorts of things, the Schumacher collectors are rabid- on the offroad side at least. I would do just what you're doing, shelf it and ponder the history. When instructions didn't have 5 pages of disclaimers and warnings

[GoMachV]

When instructions didn't have 5 pages of disclaimers and warnings

Back when gas pumps didn't need signs that say "do not consume"

[yachty]

Interested to see the technology used at this ESC. Could you show more pictures please, from bottom also?

Thanks for all the info here are a couple more pics I had to dig it out again so sorry for the delay.

[Lonestar]

That's bloody awesome you can hit David Gale on FB, just look for him into the british RC circles, he's around (I don't have a FB account any more) and he should happily provide perspective on that baby!

[yachty]

That's bloody awesome you can hit David Gale on FB, just look for him into the british RC circles, he's around (I don't have a FB account any more) and he should happily provide perspective on that baby!

So thats what I did and as predicted a source of knowledge and pleasantly surprised to see the speedo......

"Thats one of my esc's from many years ago.... At the time it was the smallest in production.... Very rare, as I only made about 40-50. We called it the Galeforce tornado! It had 4XBUZ11 Mosfets, which was amazing at the time.

I probably won a few 1/12th nationals with it, but that was about all. In 1988/89 Corally released their mms esc which was a step above anything else, so that was it for me, and many others.

Fairly sure I made the tornado to fit in an Associated rc12l, as there was very little room in front of the cells. Also tried it in my rc10 and cat xls, but needed to add a heatsink."

Thought this may be of interest to others.