jcervantes11

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go to a local Radio Shack and buy urself those 9.6 3000 mah battery runs around 24 dollars, u might get around close to 20 min. Atleast between 15-20. But i'm not sure yet.

cartronicshn

Hey guys i need some help here, i got myself an ep tornado, the esc was toast after 10 minutes[:@], luckily i had ordered an extra esc with parts i ordered, only problem is i have no idea what the sequence for programming the esc[], the manual as most redcat manual is only good for the exploded view and has no mention of the esc programming

cartronicshn

[X(] Guys thanks for the help, i guess no one has an ep redcat? no worries though i figured it out, thanks

ehroof

i have one, i just never had to do anything with it, it worked out of the box lol

Kemo

I've read on multiple posts about the ESC failing. What did you do that got you back on track?

farmboy30

no i can only charge NiCd's at the moment.. i ordered some of the 1900 pirannah's for the time being, but i will keep you in mind for future battery's

thanks guys for your imput

Kemo

what kind of battery pack comes with redcats?

farmboy30

1800 NiCd came with mine

Kemo

its nicd? hmm, then its mislabeled on the redcat website as a NiMH

skrotch

YES it is!

cartronicshn

I guess we can always expect something like this from RR, Kemo my esc went up in smoke, i had ordered one extra esc for another project, and i just swapped the new one in for the toasted one, i had my remote with steering on reverse and the throttle on normal, and the esc was all screwy, i tried to program it as i have done with novak, mamba, quark, duratrax, even tried the moped sequence and nothing, then i noticed the reverse postion on the steering and it worked fine, so i threw the throttle servo switch into reverse mode and it worked[X(], leave it to RR to have their rc cars work with reversed postion on the servo

Kemo

take a snapshot of the pack please

the one i see on their site is

cartronicshn

I have 3 electric redcats as of yesterday, they all come with ni cd 1800 mah batts, and they all come with this awesome esc, rated down to 13 turns

skrotch

Here is a pic of the one that came with my Tornado

skrotch

You gotta love those ESC's you get with these!

cartronicshn

It's not really about the quality, as we know we aren't getting state of the art stuff, but still if your name is the product you should address these quality issues, or at least come up front and warn the consumer, prolonged used of over 5 minutes with this model esc will result in magic smoke

ehroof

so far mine are holding up pretty good.

cartronicshn

Got lucky? don't know what to say, but i was telling the guy on support from RR that it went up in smoke literally after only 10 min of driving, bone stock no mods or anything, and he starts giving me the run around, and treating me like a kid trying to get away with a freebie, i only asked were did RR stand on warranty on the esc, if any, still haven't herad a thing from them

ehroof

i have the car and the volcano and so far so good.

Kemo

Hold on a sec, who spoke with you for support? Normally they treat you right, but I dont know who does the customer support anymore.

Oh and thanks for both providing pics! The sticker on the battery packs on their website must be bloopers then heh

cartronicshn

Kemo, the guy i think was Cameron? not 100% sure, this is the first time i have an ackward moment with support, but i really didn't like being treated like a kid, specially after i had told him i was a dealer. I have a thread going on about this, feel free to chime in

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_6294113/tm.htm

Kemo

if i manage to say anything, the post is going to be removed.

So here is my view on what and why they respond the way they do:

There IS a possibility that they do not have any electronics technicians to diagnose what the problems and failures are and how they have been happening.

cartronicshn

Kemo on another note, i have to apologize to RR because i assumed the ni cd batt were on every model, but i opened up the Tsunami and surprise for me, it does come with the advertised batt, or at least that0s waht the sticker says

bluecaka69

better peel off that sticker and see what the pack says

skrotch

If it says NI-Cd, then what? If it is Ni-Mh, I want what I paid for!