[Ryu James]

i have now loaded in my first of 4 v3 MMMs i have, or rather the first that i have recieved out of 4 that Castle owes me. everything seems good. Neu motor seems good and batt is ok too. thankfully. i was looking at it again trying to ascertain exactly what happened and the best that i can come up with is just what i mentioned before. i can see the other connector that sits against the heatsink so all that had to happen was for one more connector (the wrong one) to touch up against it.
so i inspected my v3 before installing and that is the one i put the tape around. as you can see i did not put tape around the positve battery connnector like i did all the other connectors. the reason i didnt put tape around that one is because it rests against the heatsink and i couldnt get tape around it. however, as long as all the others are covered it wont matter. anyway, this is definitely an issue that Castle should look into.

The other possibility is that the male connector slipped out of the female connector and as it did managed to end up resting on top of the female and against the heatsink causing the short. in this scenario anyone could fall victim, not just Tekno losi 8 owners. either way, none of this would have happened if the heatsink were smaller and/or if one connector didnt already touch the heatsink and/or if the heatsink were generally better protected from the connectors.