I'm not sure my problem parallels yours CapeTruckMan, but I think my post is appropriate for the thread. I'm not quite sure what you meant about it loosing signal and not binding as I have never encountered that problem, but I have noticed some strange behavior the last few times I drove my ECX Ruckus.

I got the ECX Ruckus over Christmas break. It is my first RC. I have been mostly pleased with it, that is until it started behaving funny. I was driving it on the road and ramping the curb. But every time the motor would be under heavy load (in the grass) it would reduce power to about half. I know because once I got it back on the road it wouldn't go as fast. The battery wasn't warm (yet) and the motor had the normal amount of heat, nothing drastic. To fix the reduced power issue, I have to power off the ESC then turn it back on. After I did that, I would get 100% power back. But every time I ran it into the grass, the ECS would cut the power on me and I'd have to go through the routine of powering off and back on. I had to do this at least 8 times and I quickly got frustrated.

I'm quickly getting frustrated with the performance.

Let me know if this is normal.