yakfish

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Am I the only one who has been having issues with MMM controlers catching fire? I have burnt up 4 ESC's in about a year maybe a year and a half[:@]. One was my fault when the car accidentally drove into a puddle I didn't see. One just quite after landing a jump and having the chassis slap hard on the ground in my 8ight 2.0 buggy. and two just randomly caught fire. One tonight. I was about to do some speed runs tonight and was just checking the range and setting up trim. when it just burst into flames.[:@] I never even got it past 30 MPH. I still have two more that are working just fine but who knows when they will just randomly burn up. And I have had 2 others in the past year that have worked great up till I traded the cars they were in. When they are working they are awesome but I have lost all confidence in these ESC's. I have never had an issue with the motors but I won't be using their ESC's anymore and I won't be recomending Castle ESC's to anybody. I might switch to Tekin or try the HobbyWing ESC's. Anybody have any experience with the LRP ix8?

OK...rant over

phmaximus

Thats.....BS, Wow to say i would be annoyed if that was me is a under statement
Im looking for a ESC for my Losi 8ight too, ive been put off getting a Castle ESC by reading these stories. From what ive been reading the Tekin RX8 sounds very reliable, I dident even know about the LRP iX8. Only other thing that seems reliable is the Hobby Wing XERUN. I thought since the RX8 & iX8 are both sensorless I should compare the XERUN with a sensorless motor to them not the EZRUN.

But can Hobby Wing really compare to 2 of the best manufacturers in racing???

Foxy

Er...I have only heard of one other incident where someone blamed a MMM for a fire, and looking at his photos, it looked like a battery fire to me. lol.

Wow, just...wow.

phmaximus

check this one Foxy, Seems the castle ESC have a bitof a history of catching fire

[link=http://www.rc-monster.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25239]WOW[/link]

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phmaximus

wow

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFy1Nab2WWw[/youtube]

The Collector1

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I have 2 MMM, one is a year+ old and the other one is 3 months. No issues with either one but I dont run them every day either. Also the year+ one has had 6s in it several times.

echthelion

if i ever go 8th scale elec ill get a tekin just because i live 2 hours from the hq so i can ***** in person if i need to lol

The Hedgehog

I have 2, one was in the earlier batch where they all failed and they replaced that for free, the other is newer and never had any problems.

yakfish

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maybe I'll give the Mamba XL2 a try next!

Sigma.40

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That sucks, I'm sorry. Are they going to replace it for you? I had an XL-5 esc go up in smoke once but no flames, just lots and lots and LOTS of smoke. It was my fault though, I had something hooked up backwards.

I wonder if any Velineon ESCs have caught on fire under normal use?

yakfish

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I have to look and see if I can find the reciept. This one was a replacement from about 4 months ago. I sent 2 in at a time for non-warranty replacement ($70) and this was one of the ones I got back from them. I know I kept the reciept but it could be anywhere now I'm bad about keeping track of paperwork[&:]

I currently have three of these systems and have probably owned about 10 total. so that is a 40% failure rate. Although I admit one was my fault for getting it wet the other 2 seemed to be random and I understand that that stuff happens sometimes and I was willing to give the company the benifit of the doubt, but now another one bites the dust and i think I am done with them. Castle and Tekin are supposed to be the best of the best right? But I have heard too many stories of castle ESC's burning up and now have plenty of personal experience to back up whaty I ahev heard. The motors are excellent and the best I have ever used and I have put them thru their paces pretty well with zero problems so I will be keepng the motors. I may see if I can trade of the MMM ESC's I have left for Tein and see how I do with them. I had a truggy with an RX8 system but it didn't have the same brutal power of the MMM systems which is why I have stuck with castle until now. So maybe an RX8 ESC and the castle motors will be the best of both worlds? If castle will replace this one which I am sure they will since their CS is still top notch I will sell it as brand new with reciept and get something else to replace it with.

This is just all an irritating pain in the butt!