Mike is great...and I'm an idiot

[Dagger Thrasher]

Just thought I'd report that my order of two Mamba Max 5700 systems (and some Deans wire) arrived all present and correct, just the other day...and WOW they look good! Very well packaged, and they'd have gotten here sooner if Customs didn't get hold of the package and slapped a £48 charge on it. Still, that part of things went great, so a big thanks to Mike!

However...just yesterday, I made an incredibly stupid and careless mistake. Long story shortened, I decided to set about soldering the controllers up. I needed to shorten the ESC motor wires, so I thought I'd just de-solder the leads from the tabs, shorten them, and re-solder. Easy? Well it should have been but my soldering iron was having a hard time melting the solder on there for a start. I took the casings off the ESCs just to make things a bit easier...and when I was trying to de-solder a wire on the first Mamba, it looks like I've inadvertantly cooked one of the tiny surface-mount components right next to the tab!:026: :002:
I don't know if I've actually done real damage, but my bet is that I have. A friend of mine is doing the rest of the soldering for me at work (he has a more powerful iron), so I can't test the stricken ESC until he's done.:013:

It looks like I've got a $50 charge and a long wait coming my way...I can't believe I've managed to potentially wreck a Mamba before I've even so much as plugged a battery into it.:019: :002: That's why I'm an idiot, lol.

Anyway, sorry about the rant...top service from Mike once again!:018: