Yesterday I came to my office to fly in the the lab. I was having problems getting the gyro to set and finally figured out (after reading a post) the the gyro may not set if the trim is not center which mine wasn't and I was going to move the servo to fix. After fiddling around for a while I got it to work. I put the bird on the floor, spooled it it and the ESC went up in smoke[sm=confused_smile.gif]. Shut it down and it was still crackling and smoking. Got to the plug on the battery and then grabbed the wire cutters to clip the zip ties to get it off the frame. The ESC was smoking hot and the thick yellow shrink wrap was sagging. I took th shrink wrap off and a bunch of the chips fell off as it was hot enough to melt the solder. Luckely I live in the same town as betapilot and he's hooking me up with another ESC so I can fly this thing. When it shorted it just kept on going till I pulled the battery.....