hi randy
your running to hot us the cooling tubes that run thought the esc and only 28 amps of power i stay below that ,and set it up on progam as the insturtion say to do ,make sure all your setting are in the neutral before you start you dont want to blow it up look at how long it took to get ,if you want to call him about the set up he will talk you thought it ps i am building a 1/16 scale ww-11 langing craft for my rc tanks it will be 48" long by 15 wide and this time i will be calling him to order one more if he has it in him hand to ship but call him he very slow but knows his stuff as for the battery that one thats get hot is no good a bad cell or two i run two esc on 900 motors and two 12 volt gelcells and both are water cooled the esc's are warm and the motors are hot but not hot enough to keep your hand on for about 30-40 minutes most of the time full tirgger
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