Mtroniks Truck just sorta blown up..

[Rtsbasic]

Thats right, when I was driving along my road with my RC10T my car suddenly lost all power, and poured out enough smoke to make the car virtually disappear. Running on 8 cells GP3300, Mtroniks "Plasma Pro" (540 6s rebranded), 9/60 gearing with Proline Masher 2000 tyres. After it stopped pouring out smoke I ran up to it, ripped the battery out and noticed the ESC was hot enough to un-solder the motor and capacitor cable from the +ve terminal. Its never got above being barely warm when I've ran it like this previously, including in this run when I last checked the temp it was fine. Motor was cool.

Sorry for the poor quality pic, best I can do.

[chilledoutuk]

obviously faulty luckily your in the uk just send it back to the mtroniks lads so they can send a replacement.

Oh by the way you didnt short anything did you?
The only thing i dont like about the mtroniks controllers is that the terminals are a bit open to being shorted.

Maybe one of the addtional diodes died and thus maybe shorted the controller out as well.

try to get a better pic you must know somone that has a better camera.

[Rtsbasic]

Nothing had shorted no. With this ESC I made a point to keep my solder connections clean and tidy, unlike my last one. I can't test the diodes but they all look fine and are still connected to their respective posts. None of them have popped.

I'll see about getting a better pic, I think even a pic off a mobile phone is better than my digi camera. Have emailed Starluckrc where I brought it but I'm going to speak with Mtroniks tomorrow and see what they say. Has to be a faulty unit, I can't see any other explaination.

[chilledoutuk]

send it straight to mtroniks no need to send it to starluck dude all there going to do is send it to the mtroniks factory.

[Rtsbasic]

Thats what I plan to do, damn Mtroniks offices are shut at weekend though so can't get hold of them till Monday.

[Godspeed]

b3racer, is that the genesis pro esc that went up in smoke? I'm on the verge of ordering the pro esc and it really makes me think twice now about mtroniks products... :(

[tcolesen]

As it says in the title, it is the Truck controller.

[Rtsbasic]

Aye its a Genesis Truck. Must have been a faulty unit as I ran this configuration with my Pro controller all summer, which to this day still runs brilliantly. I have no doubt they'll replace it with a nice new unit under warranty so I'm not too annoyed.

[Godspeed]

My bad...thanks for the clarifications. B3racer...hope you get back your ESC soon. :)
But, its lucky your in the UK...u have direct access to Mtroniks...bug them till they replace you with a new one hehe. ;)

[Rtsbasic]

Heh, thanks :) I don't think I'll need to bug them much, just spoken with them and if I get it in the post today I should have a new one by the end of the week :) They were curious to know if any of the schottky diodes soldered onto the posts had cracked, and obviously if it had been shorted.