Novak HV-Max 6.5 Caught Fire?!?! Need Asistance

hiya,

let me tell you the sob story first.

i brought the novak hv mas 6.5 brushless system along with the novak 1/8th brushless conversion kit to run in an OCM buggy (Mugen copy), so i fited it all together and had a little play but had problems with the speedo cutting out.

acording to the manuel the motor was to hot there for it would shut it down, but checking temps it was still warm but nowhere near temps that was recommended in the manuel. (cannot remeber for sure), so i thoguth ok maybe its a gearing problem.

so i brought some more pinions to change the gearing to see if it affected the temps and stopped cutting out, but it didnt really help at all.


so last weekend it was freezing at the local track, so i had it in my mind that if it was an over heating problem, then using it in the freezing temps it should work better and shoudlnt cut out if it was a temp problem.

and it still cut out but it did last a lot longer.

so im trying different thing to get it to last thinking that it maybe a gearing problem or maybe a wiring problem.

so it came ot the finals which was a 15min final...about 4:30 into the final it stopped and cut out as normal on a slow part of the track after the timing loop...as i was walkign down the rosterum i saw smoke inside the shell.

so i was thinking it was the batteries going up as i have had some dodgy batteries in the past. so i was takign the shell off when it caught fire :eek: so i threw the car into the empty field out the way incase it decided to go bang or whatever it does.

so when i go over to it the fire was put out during flight unplugged batteries and saw a great big burnt mark around the shell/chassis/speedo.


so thats the story.
next thing is what do i do about it as it hasnt been running correctly since day 1...do i send it back to novak???

will they replace it? any ideas on what will happen?


anyway, here are some pics of the speedo :-(

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