RC-Monster Forums - View Single Post

BrianG · 07.07.2009, 10:06 PM

Yep. I ran a test a long time ago and found that even a low 0.25A load on the internal BEC (on 8 cells IIRC) caused it to heat up fast. Rule of thumb: use a switching BEC with ANYTHING over 2s or 7 NiMH cells.

	(#3)
BrianG RC-Monster Admin Offline Posts: 14,609 Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Des Moines, IA	07.07.2009, 10:06 PM Yep. I ran a test a long time ago and found that even a low 0.25A load on the internal BEC (on 8 cells IIRC) caused it to heat up fast. Rule of thumb: use a switching BEC with ANYTHING over 2s or 7 NiMH cells.