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Old 06-20-2016, 05:42 AM
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Originally Posted by CLIFF.MOORE48
purchased 2 (onewas a present for my brother)from tower, also flying in florida, 90 outside, brother crashed his, 3 passes, esc overheated, shut all power off to everything,destroyed fuse, after esc cooled off, power was restored, plane is on its way back to tower/flyzone for investigation , flew my seawind, 2 passes 1/2 to 3/4 throttle,waterlanding, taxied back, esc extremely hot, any longer in air would have met same demise, tower/flyzone just sent another esc for my plane, esc is the same one for the beaver ,its only 40 amp, may need to go to 60amp, or ventilate cabin. Will update with results from tower/flyzone
Mine is still in the box; been doing other projects. Methinks I'll get the fuse out of the box, put on the prop & run the motor at WOT while measuring the amp draw with my inline wattmeter. Everybody should have one of these. Otherwise you're flying blind.

CR