All sounds good then, I must admit never had a CC ESC blow on me "yet" lol. I have had two CM36 5700 motors let go (one snapped a shaft, the other just died no reason)

But my Flux is kickin without issues so far so yeah good stuff.

A buddy of mine blew his up !
The doopy tool soldered his Deans plug on backwards and plugged my lent 4s pack in it. POOF !
Totally destroyed the ESC and my pack was done instantly as well, Castle came through again and replaced for his ESC for $70.00 !

Cool, nice to know I have such a rare esc :lol:

Lol, same here. My V1's still going strong after a good 40 runs on 5S, using the internal BEC and with the original fan and switch (despite the switch being pretty exposed to mud and dirt, and the fan having been regularly filled with grass). All that's been done is the 1.20 firmware update, which seems to have fixed the BEC issues as promised. I couldn't be happier. :)

My first MMM simply stopped working after a few hours of use, it died after a lot of hard braking in a ~16 pound Muggy with the brakes at the default 50%. I set my new one to 30% (still really powerful) and it's got around 20 hours on it without a hitch, but every RC I own is broken in some way so I can't punish it more.

I had my first MM die after being run in the snow, drug through the snow when my velcro came loose, completely submerged when my old radio glitched out, and running through tons of puddles. Running it on 12 cells popped a FET and they replaced it for free, all the water abuse didn't even bother it. My next MM would work with my CC 5700 motor but nothing else, but it was the replacement from the first one that went out so I had to pay $45 to fix it. The 3rd MM I've had go bad was one that was given to me after a firmware upgrade bricked it, and they replaced it for free.

Every failure I've had other than the firmware problem could be linked to my abuse of the ESC and they could have made me pay for the repairs but I only had to fix 1 which was well out of it's warranty period. Since then I've bought 3 more MMs and they all still work (2 are for sale :wink:) I'm building an offroad Hyper 7 and may need to replace the MGM in my onroad Hyper and the MMM is at the top of my list for them both. It's a solid ESC backed up by a solid company that will bend over backwards to help you, failures happen with every company but how you're taken care of after it goes out means everything. I just had a HobbyWing/EZ Run/Turnigy ESC shoot sparks on me and I'm SOL as far as repairs because I bought it in November :no: When a CC ESC fails I don't really mind because I know I'm covered (even if I have to pay for repairs, it's much cheaper than a new ESC), but with other ESCs you just have to swallow the loss and get a new ESC.

CASTLE FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BOOORRRRRR

ive never had a castle product fail on me:yipi:
i dont understand why you have to pay sooo much for a similar novak system...but the novak one cant, be programed properly, use 3s+, have a good warrenty, have good CS, not blow up, have cheap repair costs, have more power, be more efficient.

castle just owns novak IMO:whistle:

Hmmm, the only difference I have seen between my Novak and Castle is, Novak cant do as high voltage, and Castle takes longer for repairs. I have been setting track speed records and holding down 1st place on our new neighborhood track with my Novak, while my Castle has been in repair.
Granted we arent pro's on our track, but I have been keeping a head of E-revo's and nitro's with a good old Orange system.
I just dont see the advantage unless your into speed runs.
I have only had to use each company once to repair stuff. The orange company was wayy faster on return and much nicer on the phone.
To each his own I guess.
It is nice to know that each company tries to take care of the customer.

guys - Patrick is shooting straight. they make these by the 10's of thousands. you hear from the people on these boards the issues they have but they are a tiny fraction of the buyers.