my weekend is ruined!!!!!!

[mk351e]

so, I've posted many questions (lots of stupid ones too!), and i've done all my homework. I sold off my entire parts bin of nitro stuff one by one on ebay, along with some random extra stuff to help fund my new BL Muggy. I ordered tons of stuff from many vendors. I kept track of the orders, and I spent LOTS of money. Then, I put it all together after putting my son to bed every night for a few weeks (had to wait for parts to trickle in), and had to make a bunch of stuff that doesn't fit, fit. But it was fun, and I was excited; I knew the payoff would be worth it! I've seen the videos on youtube!!

So finally, last night, I charged my 2 packs. I got done making all my solder connections, and I checked every single thing multiple times. It was ALL ready to go. All I had to do was calibrate the MMM (I had already programmed what I wanted through castle link!). I had some trouble making it work, and, then, NOTHING. It died. Yes folks, another dead MMM. Drives me nuts; so much went into this whole project, I waited so long, and now, I'm gonna have to wait a FEW MORE WEEKS!! My little boy was dying to see it run too (daddy's monsa truck!).

This, my friends, SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sammus]

Welcome to the club :P

I am sure over half the members here on RCM can relate to what you are going through myself included my Revo project was pushing a year to complete

[TexasSP]

Sometimes I love this hobby so much it hurts!

It is how it is with rc. You win some you lose some but keep on fighting another day.

[brushlessboy16]

took me 10 months to finish my raze project

[BP-Revo]

If it makes you feel better every single part I've ordered for my G2R ever has been on backorder and I've had to wait for it...

But its always been worth the wait.

[MetalMan]

We all can share your pain. Prior to the release of the Mamba Max ESC, there wasn't a single solid option out there (at least for me). MGM ESCs were okay, but had crappy driveability, and had bad service. BK Warrior ESCs couldn't handle more than 2pole motors and had crappy service. Schulze ESCs worked well but were (and still are) super expensive and had (still have) a tendency to burn. Mtroniks ESCs worked pretty well, but were prone to smoking, although they had good service. And so on.

I probably spent a good $800+ on BL ESCs that ended up dead, prior to the release of the Mamba Max, when I was too young to have a job, and was getting maybe $20 a week.

[e-mike]

another mmm died! sorry for you mk351e.the 30% of failure look like 50%,,,and for cc are not able to fix the issue,i guess that im a very very lucky guymine still run nice so far,,, me too i put a lot of month to assemble my maxx like i would .....and a long wait for the release of the mmm...now i become more afraid to see my e-maxx stop running and have the same issue of you guy's the death of MMM

[sleebus.jones]

Ehh, my emaxx and eHyper were both close to a year in development. Patience is key to the high-powered end of this hobby. When you're trying to put the power output that is more than most home appliances into a battery powered vehicle, there's gonna be some bumps in the road. We are regularly treading on paths that we wouldn't have dreamed of a few years ago. The electrical engineers at where I work are amazed to see the power curves from my R/Cs.

[johnrobholmes]

Yep, projects can have snags. Try being on the development side of it! I spent a good 6 months getting parts for a custom motor and a factory pulled out on me. Lots of time and money wasted.

[e-mike]

my neighbor to is impressed o see the actual rc car!!!(he's 58 years old)..is a electrical engeneer and he dont believe that in 2008 we are able to make a battery pack who handle 120amps continuously and also that we pay a lot $$$$$ to see a esc in fire or die or have some issue

[Jeremy1976]

Sorry to hear bud! Castle will take care of you and you will get it up and running.

[Serum]

can you please post this info in the sticky in the castle creations subforum?

If you think putting an RC together take ages, try building a cnc controlled machine..

[DRIFT_BUGGY]

Yeah, been 4 months now in my project which I should have going in 2 - 3 days and hoping that the MMM will hold out for a little while. What sucks with long projects like these is that you never know when new stuff will be out which will make your current gear which is all new and worth alot outdated

[JThiessen]

I also have seemingly constant issues with the brushless motors, and especially the ESC's. In two years of owning them, I probably have a total of 30 hours run time. And as I sit right now, I have two HV-Maxx systems that dont work (one bent rotor, one bad esc), and one MGM/Fiego that doesnt work (esc bad), and a MMM on backorder at Tower. I had thought that going to the HV's was going to get me a little more reliability, while sacrificing some performance. Yeah, right.

I think the only thing one can do is to buy a set of Titans and a ESC. Have them on hand for when the brushless stuff doesnt work. Probably will wear them out!