[DwightSchrute]

i have a monster mamba with a busted BEC and i need some opinions on future installments....

a little info..... i spoke to a castle tech today and he seemed to think it was a busted/cracked BEC component.

when i turn it on i get the start of a chime, but it just stops and then i get really slow steering and very little throttle. then if i pick up the esc, sometimes it will work normally. then others, it won't even work. just a blinking light.


what's weird is when i turn it on when i'm trying to bind my receiver it goes into a full turn on and arm sequence. but as soon as it binds, it goes into the cutoff mode again. i tried another receiver and radio , but it does the same thing.

that reaLLY sucks because i had about 2 inches of foam under the esc to protect it from shock.


i opened it up just to see if i could see anything overt, and nothing was obvious.

i think it's a V4 (the board was blue).
anyway, is there anything else i can do?? this really sucks guys. this is the second one in 2 weeks, just this esc's FIRST run.

the jump was no bigger than about 4 feet!!!!!!!

i should have asked the tech this when i had him on the phone but i had a 3 year old needing lunch.

1)should i cut a hole in the bottom of the case where the bec is so it's got room to flex??

2) maybe a foam strip inside the case under the bec?

3) no case, just pack it in cotton and duct tape??

4) if i run an external BEC, will it still work if the BEC inside breaks from shock impact again?