Noooooooooooo! Not Number 4?!?!?!?!?

[mk351e]

WTF??? I took my truck out for the first time in the dirt yesterday with the wife and kid. After about 8-10 min, it just stopped working!!! I figured I had a dead battery, so I went to swap, but no sirree; I now have ANOTHER dead MMM. Yes folks, this is my THIRD dead V2, FOURTH MMM total!! Maybe 5th time's a charm??

The only thing I can think of is that before running it yesterday, I dropped the punch control even lower (limits power more), changed the timing to whatever the next is below neutral for cooler temps, and raised cutoff voltage to 19V. Then I ran a few minutes and died.

I thought this was over, guess not. No more smileys either. At this point in time, I think it's safe to say that the switch to brushless was EXTREMELY STUPID, and I should have stuck with nitro. When nitro breaks, you can SEE it, and FIX it. When an ESC breaks, you don't know why, and you have to send it back. And it's like a bad surprise when it happens. BL/LIPO sucks! There, I said it!! I want my nitro setup back! I'll take regular maintenance over waiting forever for parts that work anyday. What a waste of time and money this was!!

Anybody want to buy my setup???

End rant.

[George16]

What's your setup?

Sorry to hear the loss of your MMM. At least, you were able to run it for 10 minutes. I'm still waiting for the replacement of my V1. I'm not thrilled about the MMM anymore. Good thing I still have my nitros to run with or else I will be here ranting about CC everyday.

Do you have any plans of doing BrianG's mod?

[sleebus.jones]

Originally Posted by mk351e

Anybody want to buy my setup???

End rant.

PM me with what you've got.

[e-mike]

Originally Posted by mk351e

. Yes folks, this is my THIRD dead V2, FOURTH MMM total!! Maybe 5th time's a charm??

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now nothing surprise me....

why we are the beta tester......????

Do yourself a favor,get a Novak for a dependable system.Then when your in between sending in the Monster you have something to drive.

[JaySki]

I have had great results so far on #3 with a UBEC. Not the way it should be, but it sure as hell beat playing musical MMMs. :)

well there is always BL boats, planes, and heli's...I just found out there is a BL boat club in my area...I am thinking about checking them out, they meet on sundays @ noon at this golf course lake to run thier boats

[BrianG]

Not to victimize the victim, but why do people continue buying these things when they know there are problems? I can see if someone bought one and had a problem, but after 4, I would think enough would be enough. People actually seem to be genuinely surprised when their 3rd+ MMM breaks. "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."

Sorry to come across like this, but come on! It's not like this is breaking news! It should be painfully obvious by now that there are still some bugs to work out.

[bdebde]

He may have only bought one, this could be the 4th repair/replacement.

Originally Posted by BrianG

Not to victimize the victim, but why do people continue buying these things when they know there are problems? I can see if someone bought one and had a problem, but after 4, I would think enough would be enough. People actually seem to be genuinely surprised when their 3rd+ MMM breaks. "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."

Sorry to come across like this, but come on! It's not like this is breaking news! It should be painfully obvious by now that there are still some bugs to work out.

Simple, no other companies make 6s ESC. Ho yes MGM make one, but it's the same thing, not reliable at all, but it's about twice the price of the MMM.
So people continue to buy MMM because it's just $169.00 and people hope that their new unit be more reliable than the previous one.

[SpEEdyBL]

It sound's like its getting to the point were they should just recall all MMM's since there seems to be a problem with MOST of the MMMs out there. For every person who owns two MMM V2's or more, more often than not both fail. I don't know if it has to do with the setup or not. Anybody have any problems with an MMM in a buggy? I've only heard of problems in truggies and monster trucks so far.

[DRIFT_BUGGY]

Originally Posted by JaySki

I have had great results so far on #3 with a UBEC. Not the way it should be, but it sure as hell beat playing musical MMMs. :)

Yeah, im having great results with my #1 V1 with Ext. BEC.

Originally Posted by mk351e

WTF??? I took my truck out for the first time in the dirt yesterday with the wife and kid. After about 8-10 min, it just stopped working!!! I figured I had a dead battery, so I went to swap, but no sirree; I now have ANOTHER dead MMM. Yes folks, this is my THIRD dead V2, FOURTH MMM total!! Maybe 5th time's a charm??

The only thing I can think of is that before running it yesterday, I dropped the punch control even lower (limits power more), changed the timing to whatever the next is below neutral for cooler temps, and raised cutoff voltage to 19V. Then I ran a few minutes and died.

I thought this was over, guess not. No more smileys either. At this point in time, I think it's safe to say that the switch to brushless was EXTREMELY STUPID, and I should have stuck with nitro. When nitro breaks, you can SEE it, and FIX it. When an ESC breaks, you don't know why, and you have to send it back. And it's like a bad surprise when it happens. BL/LIPO sucks! There, I said it!! I want my nitro setup back! I'll take regular maintenance over waiting forever for parts that work anyday. What a waste of time and money this was!!

Anybody want to buy my setup???

End rant.

yeah ,being a noob to BL conversions,i'm feeling your frustrations from all ive read on the MMM failures...i pretty much have put all my BL conversion patrs orders on hold ...unfortunatley i just got the MMM v2 a week ago and my Nue 1515 motor for my CRT X1 truggy build and i'm afraid to spend anymore on the build ....LOL...i think i know if i finish it i will have to power up the MMM and expect failure ...glad i havent put my nitro stuff on ebay yet

[wade7575]

Not to mention at least Castle will pick up the phone as well when you call,can someone tell me how get in touch with MGM oh yes I forgot you email them and they replie to it when they feel like it.

[What's_nitro?]

Originally Posted by mk351e

I thought this was over, guess not. No more smileys either. At this point in time, I think it's safe to say that the switch to brushless was EXTREMELY STUPID, and I should have stuck with nitro. When nitro breaks, you can SEE it, and FIX it. When an ESC breaks, you don't know why, and you have to send it back. And it's like a bad surprise when it happens. BL/LIPO sucks! There, I said it!! I want my nitro setup back! I'll take regular maintenance over waiting forever for parts that work anyday. What a waste of time and money this was!!

I don't think that's fair to say at all. Your only problem is the MMM. Take it out with Castle. Don't come on here and say that your entire setup, or BL/LiPo in general, sucks because you had issues with a single component. That is just stupid. I feel sorry for you, but if your gonna take that attitude about it then you'll have no more sympathy from me.