brushless e-revo - up in smoke

Finally got it running on 5s, 7th run total on the esc and it goes poof...

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Traxxas
• brushless
• e-revo
• 5s
• lipo
• rc
• radio
• control
• electric
• fast
• up
• in
• smoke
• fried
• burnt

[TheAL3xGR]

Why that happened?

[tekstyle373]

@TheAL3xGR Catastrophic FET failure, a problem that was common to these esc.

[TheAL3xGR]

@tekstyle373 At lease did the FET driver saved?(brainboard,not the board with the FETs,the other)If this works,you can/could remake a FET board

[tekstyle373]

@TheAL3xGR The inside of the esc was burnt entirely. Just a pile of carbon.

[kruppcody1]

@tekstyle373 how man c can it handle? i thought it was only 4 but might be wronge

[tekstyle373]

@kruppcody1 They are rated for 6 cells, I was running 5 with a BEC...

[taz1175]

Hey man, I'm sorry for that.....I want to apologize as I had no idea of what had happend to you before I had left that vulgarity on your channel.....so please accept my apology.

[taz1175]

OKay, now that's not even cool ! I wouldn't wish that on my own worst enemy ! I had no idea that you were hit by a car that ran a red light doing 60mph. Damn man, I'm really so sorry to hear that ! I hope that you are going to be okay ! I wasn't really making any kind of death threats, I was just giving you a blast of shit. Seriouly, I really wish you well and hope that you are okay and that if you ever need anything, just let me know. Take care of yourself !

[azsxdc731]

Damn.

[albertnov52]

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[brendanraymond]

with these sort of failures, it makes me wonder if things will ever go back to mechatronic speed controllers... surely they can take abit of juice... though the programming is abit limited and not being able to support brushless

[erevofreak96]

@taz1175 bet you feel like an asshole

[bzhfbz]

@tekstyle373 Did you over amp? Seems to be a common trend with RC car guys to have no idea how many amps they are pulling... We have had fets go in our Boat ESC's but its always from over amping.

[TheChris1696]

I have an e revo with a suspension problem. When I have all of my pushrods in the same hole, the front sits higher no matter what. I tried switching the shocks around but nothing. I had to put the back pushrods one hole higher to get it to sit level but someone told me not to do that. Any suggestions?

[OriginalEnough]

Oh no you let the smoke out!