My girlfriend and I are working on building an rc plane from scratch. We dont have any pior experiance with with rc planes at all, however we have almost completed our fusalage. We are having some difficulties with the electronics though and could use the assistance from this group. Today we tried to setup our electronics that we ordered online and we ended up burning up our esc. The parts that we purchased are as follows:

Sky lipo battery 3 cell 20C 11.1v 4000mAh http://www.nitroplanes.com/77p-sl400...-20c-3333.html

ESC 18A http://www.nitroplanes.com/60aelbrspcoe.html Not sure why this started smoking...

Fly sky 6 ch radio http://www.nitroplanes.com/79p-ct6b-...diosystem.html

BP 16.5 A brushless outrunner 200 watt http://www.bphobbies.com/view.asp?id...p;pid=C3481965

blue bird mirco servo http://www.bphobbies.com/view.asp?id...mp;pid=T557857

Is an 18 Amp ESC too low for this battery. I tried connecting just the battery to the ESC and it became very hot and started smoking right away. If anyone could provide some assistance to wheather these electronics are compatable I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks so much