I give up. I hooked up the brake servo so I can watch it and ran figure 8"S in the street for 4 minutes and I couldn't get it to screw up only happens at the track maybe? getting jarred from the jumps? bad solder joint????
anyway I put a heat sink from a computer on the motor and it is running MUCH cooler.
I noticed the caps on the controlleer are different temps. ONE is 130degrees and the others are 90 to 100.
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