I just got my boat fri... got everything set up proper then after calibrating and programing the control I'm getting no response from it at all no forward or reverse nothing. I've checked everything backwards and forwards to make sure It wasnt my fault I followed the instructions to the letter and the motor wont even make a peep. I suspect this might be a dud from the dead batch that finedesign got because my boat was delayed for a month while he was waiting for more controls to arrive, I spoke with cris before he shipped and told him specifically not to ship unless the esc was tested and worked...he agreed (I hope I wasn't lied to). I brought this up in a thread about a week ago hoping to get patrick or someone to clue me in or give me some input so I would know what to look for regarding this problem but because I had not even received the esc some people thought I was just kicking castle in the balls for no reason which was not the case...I was concerned about paying 400.00 bucks for a dud then sitting out the last few weeks of summer with no control. I will call castle in the morning and then call cris tuesday when he's open and try to find out what's going on. Patrick if you care to elaborate on this please do I'm all ears buddy.