another v3 gone

Originally Posted by hoovhartid

This is a good point, but there is more to consider.

I hate to compair green to orange but here it goes....

The novak hv maxx has recommended gearing suggestions.....while the MMM is still untested on the e-revo. I'm sure in time Traxxas and Castle will give gearing suggestions as well. They will also probably have minimum mAh and C rating requirements for the batteries.

Right now, my opinion is that the MMM is having some failures because there has been no suggestion to correctly set certain vehicles up.

Look at the Mamba Max, and the sidewinder. They both have gearing suggestions for the more popular vehicles they are put in. In time, the MMM will too.

Would you put a pair up a sidewinder ESC with a CMS7700 and run it on 3s lipo? You shouldn't

All I'm saying is Castle has done a great job bringing us more power for less money as fast as they could. They will finish writing the manual one day. I, for one, am happy to help them write it.

Well put Hoov! With 3 publicly reported failures on the v3, 2 of which were in extreme limit pushing platforms, I'm feeling confident that mine will do the job when it gets here. My v2 was almost 70 hours of use when it died, and the firmware update killed it.

[skellyo]

Originally Posted by DickyT

With 3 publicly reported failures on the v3, 2 of which were in extreme limit pushing platforms

Here's where I've got to voice my opinion...

1 of those failures was on a unit that even the folks at Castle said appeared that liquid of some sort was sucked in by the fan. If that's the case, and the liquid caused the failure, how is it related to pushing the limits of the ESC?

On the 2nd failure where the user was sort of pushing the limits, the battery connector came unplugged while he was braking. If a battery can shift enough to pull the connector free while you're driving, it's a poor setup and purely user error IMO.

So, given the facts that have been posted about those 2 specific failures, it's really hard to see how one can draw a conclusion that a setup that pushes the MMM spec limits is really causing a failure.