rocket-ron
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ORIGINAL: ryan_t888
No, you can't really properly fuse a system like this. Follow proper maintenance precedures and safety precautions to avoid this is the only thing that you can really do. There's a very low risk of something like this happening. In my 15+ years of doing the whole RC thing, I've seen a few batteries explode similar to yours but it was due to getting them too hot from drawing too much power for too long. I've never seen an ESC or motor fault, exploding the batteries but not letting the smoke out of the esc or motor.
If you were using LiPo, there would be nothing left of your boat.
I just thought of something else.
If you were running the boat and this problem existed for the last several runs, due to the power being wasted somewhere else, the boat would have suffered from a HUGE lack of power. This lack of power may even prevent the boat from getting on plane with a stock prop. If there was a performance loss of about 8mph or more this would indicate there is a problem with the units.
Also if there was power being wasted somewhere through the system it would definitely show up in the form of heat. Was the motor or esc excessively hot after each run before the explosion?
Ryan
Ryan,Now that you mention that the boat would be "loosing" power,we did notice Dwayne's boat was faster than mine the last few days before the explosion. He could never catch my boat before that though. The problem may have been developing (or getting worse) over the last few days. I've blown(burnt up) up speed controls/motors in planes,by over proping them,but the prop,and boat were box stock. I'm kinda a overkill guy,when it comes to maintainance. I allways remove the flex drive and lube it every run(prouably don't need to do it that often,but grease is cheap) and check out all the hardware (bolts). After the explosion we removed the drive,and he noted that my flex drive ran much smoother than his(we thought that it could have got into a bind,causing the problem,but it was really very free running. I'm going to take the Miss Vegas out later for a run,(fingers crossed) I have allot of tuning left to do on it. I like both nitro/and electric boats, well planes/jets/helicopters too. Yeah, I'm a R/C junkie!  Ron
< Message edited by rocket-ron -- 7/16/2008 1:45:16 PM >
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