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Originally Posted by kazuaki
Thanks Patrick! Given the relatively light weight of the truck (5 lbs or so), this must be a fluke right? I mean, the connectors were on correctly and the battery has plenty of power for the setup. I just want to make sure I don't need to baby this setup in the future to avoid any issues.
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Hard to say for sure what went wrong -- but we see a small percentage of "infant" failures where an ESC will fail for no good reason. Usually those failures can be tracked to a failure of a single MOSFET, which cascades through the ESC. Why the single MOSFET fails isn't always obvious -- can be caused by a cracked solder joint, a bad circuit board, or a manufacturing defect in the MOSFET itself.
Usually the on-board protection (over current and over-temp) usually will prevent failures in most "bad" setups.
So it is probably OK to assume it was a fluke failure.