Hmmm, I'm not seeing any Tamiya bashing going on?? If anything, you've just started an anti-HL rant...

So you tried to put too powerful of a motor in a HL tank, and it blew up? And you expected more out of cheap electronics which were designed to use the motors they came with (white cap Suntech 380/385's). You said yourself "you get what you pay for" (I don't believe that), so you shouldnt of expected the stock HL circuit to just "take it".