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Old 01-30-2015 | 11:14 AM
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Can the motor get damaged if the battery was plugged into the esc with positive and negative reversed?
Old 01-30-2015 | 01:13 PM
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Motor? No. ESC? Yes!
How'd you manage to do that?
Old 01-30-2015 | 01:25 PM
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Just killing that poor redcat one piece at a time i see. Should just take it outside and put the poor thing out of it misery.

As EXT2Rom has said how did you manage to do that?
Old 01-30-2015 | 07:05 PM
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I've accendentally sent battery voltage to the receiver with a elaborate LED loom....receiver was fine but the ESC dident like it.... Lol whoops
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It wasnt me... my neighbor was putting traxxas clips on his cars and put the wires in the wrong side in his ruckus and was gonna sell it n i was debating getting it but only if it worked and was extremly cheap but i decided not to get it i dont need any more of his drama

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