[mohanjude]

I am not going to wade into this ongoing arguement to flame Castle as I like their products. I have had many Mamba 25 units for the 1/18 scales, mamba max for the 1/10 scale. Using my past experience I ordered x3 Mamba Monster Max and they are sitting brand new in the box unopened - Why? Because I am scared to 'break' them.

I have never purchased a piece of RC equipment and worried about it failing prematurely. If I use the same logic on all my RC gear I should worry about Receivers dying, Gyros failing in $4K Turbine helicopters, speed controllers failing in the large electric models traveling at 70 mph. I have over a dozen of of the ESC's from MGM, BK, schulze and Quark - they too have failed 'occasionally' I am not scared of using them or even abusing them. I am too scared to get the MMM out of the box!!! Maybe if I disable the BEC, use 2S lipo and use a 24 turn motor and run the truck at 5mph I might be OK.

The problem here is that Castle released the V1 and found out it had issues. fair enough that can happen to any company. Then after a considerable delay they released V2 - in the four weeks it has been out it has received a lot of negative presss. Please don't forget this is exactly how the problems with V1 happened. So for those people who want to either live in hope or denial keep this in mind that things may not be all ok. Who knows - time will tell. When you walk into a shop and purchase a Ipod, mobile phone or whatever electronic device for your PC (graphic cards/ processors/,memory) you are not immediately thinking of sending it back after 'playing' with it for 15-30 mins. Lets face it a ESC only works for 20-30 mins contiously at a time - that is minuscule compared to the hours we have all the toys working in our daily lives.

Having to return stuff for repair and wait for weeks is not what the hobby is about. It is about enjoying and relaxing - about creating and innovating. Having to worry about the stress of premature failure, return for repair and worrying if the repaired unit will fail is in my book something I can do without. There are plenty of other things one can do with several hundred dollars invested in the hobby for each truck that can be spent with less stress. Next time you buy that 42 inch plasma screen think about how long you expect it to work out of the box. So I think it is only fair that people from both sides of the arguement see each others view.