1st batch MMM, any tips to save it?
 

Hello,

I'm waiting for a Traxxas connector and my E-Revo (MMM, 9XL, 4S 8000) will be finished.

Any tips to "break" the (first batch) MMM in with minimal risk of failure?

Thanks

Loa

Well, you could remove the fan:
http://www.rc-monster.com/forum/show...158#post176158
That's straight from the owner of CC.

That should reduce your chances of having a failure.

My MMM is still in the box,my car is not ready now.
What should i do? Trying and maybe dead?
Remove the fan and no more warranty?
:neutral:

remove the fan and how's warranty? good question...

Pick your poison I guess...

Why do we have to pick our poison? CC has acknowledged the fact that a high percentage of the "first batch" of MMM are defective.

Why should the early adopters pay for that?

Loa

that goes with being the first buyers of a new item...most of the time there will be bugs....the reason I will never buy a new MS operating system within the first year that it is released...I did gamble with the MMM though so far so good

Hehe, I so agree with you on that one that I use Macs exclusively since 1992!


Hope I'm gonna be able to say that once I plug mine in!

Loa

Either it fails or it doesn't. Not sure if there's any way to mitigate the failure.

Then it might fail from overheating, unless you put a different fan on it. FWIW, my fan failed, the monster is still going strong. I'm not running it tho, due to the fact I don't have another fan to stick on it at the moment.

They don't call it "bleeding edge" for nothing. :lol:

Exactly.

Castle is doing a great job of taking care of affected customers. Sure, we would have all preferred this to be without kinks, but they happen and are dealt with. Castle is a class act, so I have no worries about the Monster.

Re the fan issue- you could always run some longer wires to the built-in fan (or a suitable replacement) and power it from the Rx or main power wires, depending on its voltage. I may do that anyway, even though Kulangflow tested my esc for me before shipping it.

That is a possibility, but at least for my setup a MM was used previously with no fan, only four 330uF low-ESR caps, and in my 1/8 buggy the MM didn't go above 140 F. The MMM even without fan shouldn't reach anything beyond 110 F, I think.

Not what this person reports here:

http://www.rc-monster.com/forum/show...22&postcount=2

I don't think I'd run the monster without a fan, especially down here in Texas. It's been silly hot here lately, no wind, high humidity, etc. Not much temperature differential to cool an ESC. Active cooling is a must I think for larger vehicles. With a fan, you can run without worries, without one you'd probably be checking pretty often.

I vote for the "no worries" option. :yes:

Has anyone's MMM fan failed while not running off the MMM?

My bad, I meant in my setup it shouldn't go beyond 110 F.