What is this BS Castle is feeding this customer?

[pipeous]

I am not knocking Castle. Every brushless system I run is from Castle, aside from a Neu motor and am happy with everything.

I have an RC8 that I got long after the first run came out, but I still got an original kit from the lhs that required the service pack. Same thing happened to a driver at the track and he bent the defective part last weekend, but doesn't have a receipt to get the service pack and has to buy upgrades to fix the issue....

I bring this up for a point.... I hope that the hobby shops send the first run esc's back so some unsuspecting person doesn't get one of the originals 6 months from now and have these problems... maybe a general notice to all distributors to test each esc before it leaves the store to ensure, or Castle can put a little green dot or something on later releases so we can discern what version we are buying when going to the store

I understand these problems, as I am involved with an electronics mfg as a tester and advisor, and help design the new products. The owner is a freak for testing stuff and he likes to blow things up to test their limits, including competitors products (should have heard him bashing me for using a castle bec in my 8th scale and not one of the his hehe.... ya well, I wanted to play and couldn't wait for it to be released lol)