Bad news for future MM users.

[gyn77]

This is a mail that castle creations wrote me on yestarday answering my questions about MM:

"The stuff about a change in the Mamba Max that makes it not work with over a 4s pack is not true. It has not been changed and it has always been the case that if you plug in a 5s pack there is a good chance that the ESC will quit working and be damaged. Some will withstand this and work OK on 5s. Either way they are out of warranty. There is no check that makes them not work on a 4s pack. Be careful with technical details presented as fact on discussion groups. The person that started this rumor has no contact with us and if we made a change like this, we would let people know. We do say that if the Mamba Max is used with 4s it is out of warranty but this is not an ESC
limit, 4s will destroy our high Kv motors. The ESC is actually OK on 4s, but
still out of warranty."

[skellyo]

Originally Posted by gyn77

This is a mail that castle creations wrote me on yestarday answering my questions about MM:

"The stuff about a change in the Mamba Max that makes it not work with over a 4s pack is not true. It has not been changed and it has always been the case that if you plug in a 5s pack there is a good chance that the ESC will quit working and be damaged. Some will withstand this and work OK on 5s. Either way they are out of warranty. There is no check that makes them not work on a 4s pack. Be careful with technical details presented as fact on discussion groups. The person that started this rumor has no contact with us and if we made a change like this, we would let people know. We do say that if the Mamba Max is used with 4s it is out of warranty but this is not an ESC
limit, 4s will destroy our high Kv motors. The ESC is actually OK on 4s, but
still out of warranty."

What I don't get is how is the 4600 rated to run 12 NiMh cells on the MM under warranty, but 4S Lipo voids your warranty? Apparently the guys at Castle have no idea just how much voltage a lot of the newer NiMh cells are supplying these days.

[lutach]

They should know that some fully charged NiCd or NiMH cells put out 1.4V+- and 12 cells at 1.4V= 16.8 and it is the same as a fully charged 4S lipo. I know some of us are no engineers, but it seems that some company's engineers need to go back and learn more. If I was the owner of CC or Novak and had to pay my engineer to make things work, he better do it. He gats paid for that. Like I said in other threads and forums, "What are you guys paying your engineers to do?" Have you guys seen the new crop of "CAR" BL controllers coming out of Asia? If the product is good, you know people will go for it.