smoked a sidewinder esc! haha
 

so i was hooking my emaxx up and i have a 3000kv motor by mtroniks and i have a 4 cell lipo and i wanted to see if the sidewinder would be able to handle it lol. so i hooked it up and turned it on and after setting it up i hit the gas and the wheels spun and BAM! smoke starting to come out of the esc like crazy. hahahah

i have never seen a esc burn up so fast.

so i put it in the box and put a defective tag on it and walked away hahahahaha

i love work at a hobbyshop. get to experiment on different things .

Did you use a UBEC or a seperate rx pack? If not that's probably the reason it blew.

nope i did not. but the esc im using now is working fine. with out one.

A Sidewinder on 4s with no UBEC? That's not the best idea...:neutral:

well that might of been what fryed it then but oh well. i never had to pay for it so i dont really care. it was just kinda funny. but i got a new esc and its working fine with no bec.

haha it was funny too cause when i took it out side to drive it in the parking lot. the citizen patrol came by and said i cant drive it in the parking lot cause its a saftey hazord haha. i was like wtf! i have been doing this for 3 years and we have been here for like 7 and been doing this every day lol.

so he left and i started to play with it again haha.

Damn Kids!!! (Shakes walking stick)

Put a ubec on that bad boy! If only to make the servos work properly! Funny about the defective tag, you sound like the guys at my lhs, they are always doing that kind of stuff, and the defective parts bin is always full too!

be careful messing with the citizen patrol, if they shine their flashlight in you eyes its really bright and is somewhat uncomfortable

"DEFECTIVE" is not the term I would use. Sounds to me like you were not operating the esc within CC's documented specs. :rules:

Honestly...using that little esc in a monster truck, without a UBEC, and at 4S just doesn't make sense.

I did a test a while back with just a 0.25A load on 3s equivalent and the BEC chip on the MM got VERY hot VERY quickly. Servos typically draw more than that, so the heat would be worse. Rule of thumb: Anything over 2s = use UBEC.

I dont think he was actually trying to make it work. Its sounds like he was TRYING to blow it up just for kicks. Wastefull, but justified in his mind by the fact that sombody else had to pay for it. Not him.

Certainly not something I would be proud of doing let alone posting it.

well no one really paid for it. cuase when we put it as defective it gest sent back to our warehouse and we send it back to where ever it came from and get a credit for it.

and why would the esc im using now be working great with out a bec?

I'm with jhautz, but a bit further. I would equate this with stealing.

You might as well have said "Here, let me take your $75 product out of the box, plug it into something that will surley fry it, make it smoke, then send it back to you as a $25 used and defective part. While I'm at it I think I'll go to my favorite RC forum and post all about how much fun I thought it was, to guys who want the company I just stole from to succeed".

Mabey you should have put it in the trash and gave your work the $75.

Theves, liars, and people with no work ethic make me angry.

So the manufacturer paid for it. Which in the long run gets passed on to its customers. The customers are us! So we are all the ones who pay for stupid stuff like this.

This is true, but why should I pay for your stupidity! No matter how small amount it is to me.

Use a ubec dude, and the sidewinder should last.