thanks, I'll keep that one in mind.

anyone have any opinions on these?:

http://www.amainhobbies.com/product_...oducts_id/8603
http://www.amainhobbies.com/product_...oducts_id/8605
http://www.amainhobbies.com/product_...ducts_id/17987
http://www.amainhobbies.com/product_...oducts_id/5232

I chose the Thunder Power charger because it can charge up to 10S at 10A! It also charges up to 30 ni-mh/ni-cd cells and 10 A123 cells, and up to 24v pb batteries!

I also got the TP-210V li-po balancer, the charger and the balancer communicate during charging.

and I got the Dynamite 12v/10A power supply

Horizon sent me another xcelorin system, and this one is broken too. It seems that the ESC is working correctly, but whenever the motor gets up to speed it squeels and stops and the esc gets real toasty.

this is the 4th bad xcelorin system I've had so far, I'm getting pissed

+1^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That sucks!

What are you running it in when it squeals and stops?

the speed-t, and it'll do it with no load

sounds like I'm gonna like this one... It's coming wednesday

oh, and I like your avatar:rofl:

That is likely the problem, you should never get a brushless motor up to speed with no load. If you need to bench test a set up, give it a small amount of throttle for a brief period and stop.

i ran it at maybe 1,000rpm, that was it, it would squeel & lock up at that speed

Hmmmmmm, & this is a Losi product.

I'm beginning to wonder how their 1/8 systems will be.

I'm using both stock Muggy shocks & LST 2 shocks with RC Raven dual rate springs on the back & yellow Losi's on the front of my LST. Never blown a shock & handles fantastic. I never wind the screw on the shocks down, I keep it wound just enough to stop the spring falling out of the retainers at full extension.

Just to quash the confusion, it's a full set of each with the same springs on both. I use the Muggy shocks for smoother tracks with lower jumps.

Awesome avatar Gooberseptember, where'd you get it? Just wondering if there are other pics on the site.

sounds like their motors aren't too great then

out of 4 xcelorin systems, 3 esc's were bad, and 2 motors were bad. I think the ESC's may be worse than the motors, and i finally found a working esc, hopefully they will let me send only the motor back, they should've let me send only the esc back last time.

I want to see Gooberseptember's avatar in full size lol

I don't see why they wouldn't. It wouldn't surprise me AT ALL if the xcelorin ESC's were worse than the motors, judging by people's luck with the velineon systems.
On a side note, why do these imitation brushless systems all have these stupid names? :rules:

are the velineon systems crappy too?