Originally Posted by fastbaja5b

Unless people have missed the umpteen eagletree graphs I have posted, nothing wrong with his set up at all, stock set up, Savage Flux 4s Lipo, max amp spike is 120 Amps that I have seen on my set up which is pretty much identical. I run 5000mah 30C packs and mine don't puff. Instead of helping we have a bunch of know alls preaching higher voltage, get better packs etc etc yet when he was toying with what packs to buy, people with the same attitude were asserting SMC is a "good brand"

No wonder he feels disenchanted with the hobby right now.

My guess is when the lipos first puffed a bit as you stated some damage may have been done, and it's cascaded from there, as my testing has shown, a 3.2v/cell lipo cut off on the MMM is insufficient and doesn't stop the packs dropping below that under amp load, just another shortfall of a problem plagued ESC.

Query it with SMC, up your LVC to 3.5v/cell and remember that there are some people who just like to bombard you with you should and you shouldn't do's on forums, human nature.