You are going to be okay wildman. We all make mistakes...its knowing we made them and trying to fix them that sets apart the men from the weasles.

On another note...I have been in the RC hobby for what I consider to be a long time and I will tell you this...these guys in RCM know their stuff. In fact I will take it a step further...they (I am mostly referring to the Mods and guys with 1000+ posts...I'll call them RCM veterans) know it better than anybody in the industry-trust me I have searched high and low for a knowledge base this strong. Its up to all of us to try and do our part to maintain the quality that has been established by the hard work of our longstanding RCM veterans.

There are a lot of management types from various vendors that recognize the quality of this forum...and as such, they read these pages and pay attention to what we say. Lets make sure we maintain the standard so that they continue to listen...or at least take us more seriously than other folks in other forums.

I agree with what has been said, since drkros replied. If a lesson was learned, great. What bothered me was the haha in the title and the "Oh well whatever" attitude. the fact that they put it back in the box and a defective tag made me a bit upset.

i did not know it was going to go like that. i thought it would work fine. but i was wrong. or maybe it would work just i have to use a bec. but i still dont see the point to use a bec if its over 4 cells cause im running 4 cells on my emaxx right now and its doing great. i found anohter esc and put that in it and it works great.

so i dont see how using a bec would of not make it smoke.

but yah i have learned my lesson.

also no point in sending it in cause i got a new esc (the same one for like 30$)

If the internal BEC is only good for 12 cells or 3s (like the MM) its a no go for 4s. My MM's would run fine with 3s but 12 cells NIMH it would cut off intermittently, this was with the MM

You punched the throttle on 4s with a motor much larger than the ESC is designed to take. I doubt it was the BEC that smoked, although it is possible. In the instructions it says 3s max with the 4600 motor (which is quite small). They do write instructions for a reason these days, did you take the time to read them?

It doesn't surprise me at all that it smoked. What surprises me is that you were going to pass your clearly out of warranty action as a factory defect.

If I owned a Hobby Shop and one of my employees did that, he would be fired.

according to him, the boss was watching

Then I would fire myself :lol:.