MMM V3 Dead Short on Lipo! - RC-Monster Forums

11.10.2008, 11:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Edumakated

They have had a problem with Traxxas forum members

jamming screw drivers into the ESC to open it damaging the brain board.

what?

are you trying to say that the members on the cough "idiot forum" cough would acually do that?? no way

11.11.2008, 12:38 AM

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Originally Posted by big greg

what?

are you trying to say that the members on the cough "idiot forum" cough would acually do that?? no way

Yeah... I find it hard to believe too.

RBMike · 11.11.2008, 02:01 AM

Just bend the heat sink fins away from the bullits, put some shrink tube on them & run it. At some point Castle will listen to us about this problem (& the fan wire issue).

03:30 AM

My v2 did the very same thing!

I had it all set up and drove it for about 10mins in our caldisac, at 10pm at night...I then came in and updated to the new 120 version film ware....the next day I was about to leave for the track and I thought I had better try it be for I leave. I pluged in the 5s flight power( the same pack I ran the night before... I turned on the power switch and

melted the wires off at the conector to the battery and conector at the ECS, melted the shrink wrap along the side of the battery pack where the one wire runs the length of the pack..

I then checked the + - post on the ECS and there not touching.

I got one more pack and touch the conector and VERY large sparks... I didn't even bother messing with it, as I had one other to send ...I packaged them up that night and OFF they bolth went to castle.

Yes this 5s has gone down hill fast.. I have only 4 cycles on it since this happend and it's very soft now.

rhylsadar · 11.11.2008, 05:38 AM

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Just bend the heat sink fins away from the bullits, put some shrink tube on them & run it.

that may not be enough in any case. sometimes the plugs touch the heatsink not only on the fins but also at the bottom plate of the heatsink. so you can not just slip some heatshrink around it after bending the fins away.

this is all interesting information. short the esc to burn away the plugs from the heatsink before you can use it properly....

bye
rhylsadar

11.11.2008, 11:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RBMike

Just bend the heat sink fins away from the bullits, put some shrink tube on them & run it. At some point Castle will listen to us about this problem (& the fan wire issue).

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and then they void your warranty and your stuck with a dead v3