Quark fried, blown capacitor... - RC-Monster Forums

jhautz · 11:30 PM

I have 3 of these in operation right now ranging in age from 1 1/2 years old to about 4 months old and the only problem I ever had was when I ran it though a bunch of standing water and fried it. (quark had a free warranty replacement for that one back to me 2 weeks from the day I mailed it)

You guys are having a string of bad luck or there is something seriously wrong in the Quality department at quark. I wonder if they have recently "cost reduced" these things.

If I were you it would be time for me to make a stink over at S&T...

ZPB, I do agree with you about the quark when its working right. There isn't any other controler that I have ever tried that is even close as far a smoothness. I can make a quark cog. I like that.

silentbob343 · 05.30.2007, 11:37 PM

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Originally Posted by jhautz

I have 3 of these in operation right now ranging in age from 1 1/2 years old to about 4 months old and the only problem I ever had was when I ran it though a bunch of standing water and fried it. (quark had a free warranty replacement for that one back to me 2 weeks from the day I mailed it)

You guys are having a string of bad luck or there is something seriously wrong in the Quality department at quark. I wonder if they have recently "cost reduced" these things.

If I were you it would be time for me to make a stink over at S&T...

ZPB, I do agree with you about the quark when its working right. There isn't any other controler that I have ever tried that is even close as far a smoothness. I can make a quark cog. I like that.

I agree, it was smooth for the 5 minutes it was running ;). That's why I don't want to go with a Mamba.

zeropointbug · 05.31.2007, 12:05 AM

Yeah, I was going to say that earlier, their Quality Control is going of course or something. I would have thought these things are tested before they go out, you know?

AAngel: I remember you saying before that your Quark would not go slow, and it would start abruptly? When, and I mean 'when' the Quark is working :005: the speed at minimum throttle is amazing, it's very slow, and smooth, never cogs.

BTW, the time it took my Quark to be shipped off to Quark for replacement, you bought your first Quark, you got it, you fried it, sent it back, got it back. I still had not received mine back from S&T... ain't it the best to be out of country.

zeropointbug · 05.31.2007, 12:06 AM

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Originally Posted by silentbob343

I agree, it was smooth for the 5 minutes it was running ;). That's why I don't want to go with a Mamba.

Did yours go on you as well? Or did it just thermal?

silentbob343 · 12:13 AM

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Originally Posted by zeropointbug

Did yours go on you as well? Or did it just thermal?

I wish it was just thermal, lots of white smoke came out and a HOT heastsink. It would turn on and operate, but with tons of cogging. I sent it back the retailer and waiting on a replacement. The first one ran fine, but I broke off the programming button.

zeropointbug · 05.31.2007, 12:59 AM

Oh, right, I forgot you said that. I am a little irritated about this whole thing, I guess it's hard for me to remember stuff at the moment.

Yeah, I could see intense light coming from the end of the quark, and blowing out smoke. I jump for the batteries plugs, I just froze at first, it was buring for roughly 2 seconds until I unplugged them. Who knows how many amps were going through the thing to burn that up so intensely.

I wonder what it actually was that was burning, a flame, or plasma?