[JoFreak]

Let's start the story from the beginning...
I got me a MMP arround March or April, ran it for ~5mins with a Novak HV 6.5 untill my SCRT10 failed. Motor ran fine, had a bit of sporadic cogging what I found strange as the HV 6.5 is a sensored motor.
All wires were connected correct and the sensor cable was plugged in and in working order.
Then, about 2 weeks ago, my Slash 4x4 arrived.
Put the MMP and the Novak in and put 2 packs through it.
This time the sporadic cogging was even more extreme, sometimes it would help to give the truck a little push.
Or it would just stutter back and forth, in those cases even pushing wouldn't help.
Rarely it would start normally and accelerate as it should.
Sometimes it would just drive very slow speed until I put the trigger back to neutral and to accelerate again.
Sometimes it needed to come to a complete stop. And in some cases after a few seconds of "crawling" with trigger fully pulled it would just take of and give it the beans.

I looked at everything after that session and couldn't find any faults, reprogrammed the ESC checked every connection, the motor, drivetrain and ESC.

Today I wanted to put the next 2 packs through, but this time without the internal BEC. So I disconnected the red wire as the diagramm for use with external BECs says to do.
Since my external BEC is still under ways to me, I took one of my receiver battery packs and connected it.

I then plugged in the LiPo, put the body on, put the truck down on the ground and accelerated.
Or at least I tried, the Slash stuttered an instant and than sat still.
Nothing would happen, I tried to push it, but all wheels were completely locked in both directions.
Took of the body to see if I somehow managed to block the drivetrain, and in that moment I smelled burning electronics.
Immediately unplugged the LiPo and the receiver battery and noticed that the motor, motor wires and ESC were really hot.
Took my infrared thermometer, motor was at about 55°C and the case of the ESC at about 60°C. All that heat developed within 10 seconds at ~20°C ambient temperatur.
I would say the ESC shorted 2 or all 3 phases so the rotor was locked in one position. But then my knowledge on 3-phase motors is quite limited.

After a few minutes I tried to start the ESC again, but it would just continously beep and flash all lights in random seeming order. The fan stayed on and seemed to spin faster and faster, so I shut down the ESC.
Next I tried to connect it via castle link and it would connect just fine, flashed to new firmware, programmed the torque control and tried to drive it again.
To my surprise it accelerated, seemed even a bit smoother, but on the next try to accelerate from stand still it wouldn't move again.
I could repeat that behaviour at will.
So I just threw everything back into the trunk of my car and drove back home.
So much for one of the very very few days this (sh***y) summer where I would have had the chance to drive one of my RCs.
And so much for the next 2 days which are supposed to have good weather, after that rain is forecast for the next time, really great.

The motor, receiver, servo, receiver battery and LiPo (2S 5000mAh 33/60C SLS) are all in perfect working order, so don't even try to blame it on them.

So what now?
I'm not only angry that this ruined my day but also that it would quit after just 2 packs.
I'm really not in the mood for requesting RMA at the shop I bought it and wait 3 months of processing.
Neither do I want to wait for 3 weeks for the ESC to get to Castle plus processing time plus 2-3 weeks until it's back here.
My summer vacation is pretty much ruined RC-wise question is: will there be an RC-autumn (and any date beyond that) with castle or without castle?
Looking forward to your (Castle-guys) replys on this....

P.S.: I wrote this here because I never ever got a reply to the emails I sent to you guys.
Spamfilter I guess, but if you have any interest in your customers who try to contact you, you maybe should start to get a grip on that problem.
And because I know that you check this forum on a more or less regular basis.