MMM Very bad Assembly!
 

There is no need of an engineer to see that the small hole in the body esc is too small for 5 cables. In fact when they have assembled my esc the orange cable has been barely cut by the plastic case. :no::no:

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ya know, mines like that too. I never liked how the 5 wires fit in that little slot. I never took the time to complain about it though.

moreover the black heatsink is not well aligned and touch one female motor phase plug.
Fan red cable is ruined by wrong assembly as the orange one.
Maybe, a lot of failure are a consequence of the poor attention in the assembly

I love the PCB LOL they just need a new way of incasing and heatsinking it(fan included, if at all) The current case is more like a rough crate if you ask me.

Both of my MMM are like that. with 1 or 2 of the wires pinched like that. Still can't do case mods without voiding the warranty:neutral:

2 of mine are same.....

If they still work then why bother worrying about it?

Ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure...

I use a razor knife and open the slot up so all of the wires can exit in a uniform manner. If castle give me issues about that I will take a pic of all of the castle products I have and send them that.

Yeah. It doesn't take an engineer to fix it either...

Thought id add onto the whine page...I agree with the above, I used some gorilla tape as wire cushion.

Started with 3 old monsters V1s and V2s, had them all repaired/replaced/updated to V3s early spring (NO Charge), 3 months later and alot of driving all 3 still work. Ive had the switches blow out on all 3. Snip off the switch, twist, cover and good to go..... Castle, what friggin great customer service, god knows Patric isn't trying to put us in the poor house with his products pricing and they work great ... my final thought though is... those crappy switches is this how you want to be remembered > lol.. Maybe a choice of no switch or $5 more for a GOOD one ?

That was kind of my point. Seems obvious to me that you can fix it yourself easy enough. I highly doubt based on experience CC would void your warranty for that.

I did the same thing you did on 3 of my mm esc and no probs.!

still 3 on/offs shy of the MMM's I paid for ..lol.. the whole thing about the "weak link" etc about products...cool ZCastles our homie etc. If my 1-1 car crapped like that from some 14c switch ....RECALL...

Well, we actually designed that hole to put a little pressure on the wires so it would strain relief the point on the circuit board where the wires solder on.

I haven't seen any failures due to the pinch point personally (so the repair techs haven't seen a lot of failures due to that... they get pretty bitchy about things which cause a lot of returns...) -- but we are doing a revision on the MMM case soon, so I'll have my mechanical guy take a look at it. Maybe we can put a longer strain relief internal to the case to take some of the pressure of the wires.

Patrick

On my original V1, I enlarged the hole, but then put heatshrink over the wires so that the case still clamped down on the wires, but the shrink protected them. Seemed to work ok until it went up in flames, lol (unrelated issue).