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jsr · 09.13.2009, 10:41 PM

Well, I was running today at the park on this large dirt mound (don't know why the dirt mound was there...it's not near any construction which in socal is always completely fenced off), but it was fun. I wasn't running very hard...only part throttle and was on NiMH and half way through the first set of packs, I went for a jump and the truck got off balance and landed directly on it's lid. Then, no throttle. Steering worked still. I tried turning off the ESC and back on, nope. Disconnect the battery and reconnect, nope. Then disconnect battery again, reconnect...and MAGIC SMOKE! It was taking some pretty big hits, hard enough to slide the fan on the EZRun ESC half way across the ESC. So, not sure what did it...I guess the landing on it's lid was enough impact to move something around enough to short. So, a dead 80A ESC. Disappointing, but not any more surprising than if it had happened with any other brand. A friend of mine smoked his MMM recently too (his 2nd smoked one).

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jsr RC-Monster Carbon Fiber Offline Posts: 212 Join Date: Feb 2009	09.13.2009, 10:41 PM Well, I was running today at the park on this large dirt mound (don't know why the dirt mound was there...it's not near any construction which in socal is always completely fenced off), but it was fun. I wasn't running very hard...only part throttle and was on NiMH and half way through the first set of packs, I went for a jump and the truck got off balance and landed directly on it's lid. Then, no throttle. Steering worked still. I tried turning off the ESC and back on, nope. Disconnect the battery and reconnect, nope. Then disconnect battery again, reconnect...and MAGIC SMOKE! It was taking some pretty big hits, hard enough to slide the fan on the EZRun ESC half way across the ESC. So, not sure what did it...I guess the landing on it's lid was enough impact to move something around enough to short. So, a dead 80A ESC. Disappointing, but not any more surprising than if it had happened with any other brand. A friend of mine smoked his MMM recently too (his 2nd smoked one).