Monster Max motors now for sale individually!!!

[SpEEdyBL]

Why is the max voltage for the 2650 16.8v/4s? On 5s its the same rpm as the 2200 on 6s. I run my 2650 on 5s no problem, but i would hope to still have a warranty.

[YogyBrushless]

Originally Posted by SpEEdyBL

Why is the max voltage for the 2650 16.8v/4s? On 5s its the same rpm as the 2200 on 6s. I run my 2650 on 5s no problem, but i would hope to still have a warranty.

ditto that question

[Joe Ford]

Originally Posted by SpEEdyBL

Why is the max voltage for the 2650 16.8v/4s? On 5s its the same rpm as the 2200 on 6s. I run my 2650 on 5s no problem, but i would hope to still have a warranty.

Because anything over 4s the motor can overheat if you're not careful. You can do it, but read this first.

I think we are all missing something here....


A Warranty covers an item against manufacturing defects.

So, if we built a Mamba Monster that had a bad MOSFET on board, and that FET blew during normal use, we will cover the Mamba Monster under warranty.

Tech support gives recommendations of what they know works. If you venture far outside of that realm, they will tell you that failures will probably be considered an "Overcurrent" or "abuse" failure -- which wouldn't be covered under warranty.

All warranties work this way. If you blow your clutch on your Toyota Corolla while street racing, Toyota isn't going to cover it under warranty. If you don't change the oil in your Toyota, they aren't going to cover that either.

A Warranty is to cover a consumer in the case that they get a defective component from a manufacturer. There is always some small number of pieces/parts manufactured that have an issue - -so the warranty there is to protect the consumer against defects of manufacturing.

A Warranty does not cover neglect (you get grass in your transmission and it eats up the gears, bad bearings in the wheels which you don't replace, you get dirt all crammed up in your ESC... etc)

A Warranty does not cover abuse (you use a 5500Kv motor with 6S, you run a setup that draws 2000A during acceleration, you try to run a 1/5th scale 4wd buggy with a Mamba Monster, you smash your Mamba Monster with a hammer, etc....)

A Warranty does not cover stupidity (you try to run a Monster with 8S Lipo, you jump your car over your house, you run over your 1/8th scale buggy with your 1:1 scale SUV, etc...)

SO -- what your warranty covers is defective Mamba Monsters.

If you want to experiment -- go ahead. Just don't be too surprised that if you damage your Mamba Monster from over current, that it won't be covered.

If you are careful, you shouldn't have any problems. If you do have a problem, we have a non-warranty replacement policy.

Under the non-warranty replacement policy, we will cover EVERYTHING. (Including hitting your Mamba Monster with a hammer.) The non-warranty replacement is only $70.00 -- so if $70.00 doesn't seem like a hefty penalty for doing whatever you want with your Mamba Monster... GO FOR IT!


If $70.00 to cover abuse seems excessive -- then you can take the advice of Tech Support (remember -- they can only comment on what they have tried -- so anything outside of what they personally have used will get the same "That might be outside your warranty coverage" answer...) and only try things that we have personally tried here at Castle, and know work well.

WE WILL ALWAYS cover (under warranty) any Castle controller that has a warranty issue -- if the controller damage is caused by a defect in a component in the controller, or a defect caused during manufacturing.


Thank you for listening to me rant!!!!

Patrick


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Patrick del Castillo
President, Principle Engineer
Castle Creations


No idea on the 1800kv motors guys. I'm running one in my RC8 on 6s and it's a blast! You guys will love it. :)

[Joe Ford]

Last sentence of my last post.

No idea on the 1800kv motors guys. I'm running one in my RC8 on 6s and it's a blast! You guys will love it. :)

Originally Posted by Joe Ford

No idea on the 1800kv motors guys. I'm running one in my RC8 on 6s and it's a blast! You guys will love it. :)

that makes me want it even more now lol.