My MGM 16018 catch in fire!

IMO there is a lot of jarring going on with off road trucks especially with speeds approaching 50 mph and all it takes is a loose connection to cause a short.....both the MMM and MGM controllers are good...I dont think buying one brand over another will keep that from happenning in the future. I do like to make mounts that have foam and/or female velcro to help absorb the shock

Originally Posted by azjc

IMO there is a lot of jarring going on with off road trucks especially with speeds approaching 50 mph and all it takes is a loose connection to cause a short.....both the MMM and MGM controllers are good...I dont think buying one brand over another will keep that from happenning in the future. I do like to make mounts that have foam and/or female velcro to help absorb the shock

This is possible with what some of you off-road guys get up to . But I run mine in THIS
and I only run it on a purpose built track. The strange thing in common about these MGM failures is the fact that they run fine one day then let the smoke out the next . In my instance I had driven the car the day before (temps all good) then the next day I had the car on the bench about to have a drive. Plug in the battery (deans plugs) and POOOOF!!! the dreaded white smoke .

Tick tick tick tick tick tick tick.........

On mine, there was not only smoke, but alot of fire
The negative bare were the black batterie lead connect on have literaly disconect from the 4 PCB and short with one of the capacitor.

The only thing i'am little scared, is my li-po pack. Don't know if the pack is fine after this happen.
I've recharge them, both pack seem to have all the cells at the same voltage, but i've a pack with an internal resistance of 36mohms and other one with 68mohms.
This is 2 identical pack (TP V2 extreme 5000mAh, 3s) and have always been use in same time.......