Hobbywing XRotor Micro 40A 2-5S 4 in 1 BLHeli_S DShot600 Ready

Hobbywing is a long time player on the market of top-notch ESCs and finally, they have come up with a 4 in 1 40 amp DShot600 ready ESC with a current sensor and support for up to 5S voltage.

To be honest, if I had seen this ESC half year ago I would have been asking myself why 40A, but as the things are developing we may need batteries with double C rating then the ones that are already on the market, especially for motors like BrotherHobby Avenger

The build quality is up to the Hobbywing standards. They are using EMF8BB21F16G MCUs with the operating frequency of up to 48MHz. The motor soldering pads are neatly placed on the board and not protruding from the sides as on the Racerstar 4 in 1 ESCs which from other side means that you may need a bit longer motor wires compared to the other ESCs but I don’t think that may be a problem on builds that are up to 210mm. Sometimes even on them if you are unlucky enough you may have to extend the motor wires for motors like Racerstar BR2306S that are almost suitable on 210mm frame (one of the wires could reach the soldering pads, but you will have to extend the other two). There is a dedicated connector for Hobbywing XRotor Omnibus F4 Flight Controller which means far less soldering, you will have to solder the video in and video out wires for the OSD and the SBUS connection wires for your receiver. There is also dedicated type connector on the FC, probably for a VTX, but by the time I’m typing this post it is not out yet and it seems that they will be going the “cube” path too by offering all in one stack.

One thing to note that the ESC could only provide BEC output of 5V for up to 1.5A,  although there are 3.3V, 5.2V and 12V pads on the board they are only for voltage monitoring and they couldn’t provide the load capacity

Specification:
Brand name: Hobbywing
Item name: XRotor 40A ESC
Cont./Peak Current: 40Ax4/50Ax4
Input Voltage: 2-5S Lipo
BEC output: 5V & 1.5A
Firmware: BLHeli_S A-H-50 16.5
Input Wires: Red-14AWG-130mm / Black-14AWG-130mm
Output Wires: No wires but solder tabs
Support: DShot150/300/600,  Oneshot125, Oneshot42
Size: 42.6x36x4mm
Weight: 10g