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[BrianG]

Sounds like a haunted vehicle to me. Seriously, that just sucks. Are you by any chance even remotely close to Castle HQ? Maybe take the truck there for Patrick to look at - at least then you'd leave with a working setup. Maybe call Patrick again and see if you can send the whole vehicle to him. Maybe he will find something you aren't seeing.

[J3110]

Originally Posted by BrianG

Sounds like a haunted vehicle to me.

That could very well be true, but I am not quite sure if this phenomenon is restricted to a particular vehicle or to a particular user.
Not to go too O/T here, but I have been troubleshooting a losi mini-t for awhile now.
Swapped out every component individually and it still does this weird thing(steering servo doesn't return to center and instead, continues another MM or 2). I mean, I went to an HTU, they had another working mini-T and we swapped every single component out individually and whenever I touch the controller, the mini-T develops this steering fault.
I dunno if it's some kinda sign, but I'm so getting rid of that thing.

Very sorry to read about your third one dying on you and especially considering the conditions under which it happened.
I would see if you could at least ship castle your electronics if they'd be willing to troubleshoot it for you.

I am not certain about this, but if the screws were touching the coils, I don't think it would necessarily be detectable by feeling an actual bind because the coils are stationary relative to the housing...it is the rotor that spins and that is usually inside of the diameter of the mounting hole pattern.

[BrianG]

Originally Posted by J3110

That could very well be true, but I am not quite sure if this phenomenon is restricted to a particular vehicle or to a particular user.
Not to go too O/T here, but I have been troubleshooting a losi mini-t for awhile now...

It sounds far-fetched but true. I once worked for a company repairing Lottery machines. Out of a base of around 2500 units, there were two or three that were plagued by this type of thing. No sooner would they be repaired and sent out into the field and they would come back. On slow days, one of us techs would sigh and go get one of these "machines of death" to work on. Usually it turned out to be something totally off the wall, and sometimes the problem didn't appear to have anything to do with the symptoms.