Serum, I really don't know what to tell you about the caps. I'm an electronics moron. I just thought that there must be something to it when Frank at S&T told me that they recommend the addtion of extra caps to the Quarks when running them in large scale vehicles.

I don't completely understand it, but I will say that the esc is running cooler. I don't think that I'm running conservative gearing either. In fact, I'm running higher gearing than I've ever been able to run with the MM.

I don't know if it's comparing apples and oranges, but with the Muggy and the large 40 series Mashers, I had to gear 9/46, when running 5S just to keep the truck from killing the controller with cogging. At 10/46, I did kill the controller. In the 8ight, I was running the 40 series Moabs (larger and heavier than the Mashers and making the 8ight weigh in at 13lbs.) and I was able to gear 12/44 on 5S.

Don't ask me for any explanations, because I can't give any. I just know that the caps made a difference.