Hi
Recently purchased an Arrma Mojave EXB with Hobbywing MAX8 Combo (month old from new)
current spec: Scorched RC Titanium Chassis, Full PPS motor and diff mount, Ludicrous high power servo. Currently using it with 16T pinion, Sanwa MX6 radio and Voltz 4800MAH 50c battery.
Made a previous post regarding Motor Heatsink/Fan recommendations for the motor. Decided I was just going to just swap out the Combo with a MAX6 and possibly 1250kv motor (already have them) but I ran the MAX8 Combo today just for a bit (around 5mins) and the ESC ended up catching on fire. The motor, lipo, servo seems to be working fine.
The MAX8 ESC combo is only a month old...anyone know if it would be covered under Hobbywing warranty service if I have the invoice/receipt?
I will probably replace the combo with a MAX6 ESC. Not sure if its fine to be running MAX6 esc with a 1250kv motor on 8s though as I have seen some MAX6 catching on fire with similar combo...so possibly I should only run that combo on 6s. I also have a MAX5 and Castle MAMBA XLX v1 with 2028-800KV 8s motor (not sure if this would be overkill though)?.. or possibly get a MMX8s.
Recently purchased an Arrma Mojave EXB with Hobbywing MAX8 Combo (month old from new)
current spec: Scorched RC Titanium Chassis, Full PPS motor and diff mount, Ludicrous high power servo. Currently using it with 16T pinion, Sanwa MX6 radio and Voltz 4800MAH 50c battery.
Made a previous post regarding Motor Heatsink/Fan recommendations for the motor. Decided I was just going to just swap out the Combo with a MAX6 and possibly 1250kv motor (already have them) but I ran the MAX8 Combo today just for a bit (around 5mins) and the ESC ended up catching on fire. The motor, lipo, servo seems to be working fine.
The MAX8 ESC combo is only a month old...anyone know if it would be covered under Hobbywing warranty service if I have the invoice/receipt?
I will probably replace the combo with a MAX6 ESC. Not sure if its fine to be running MAX6 esc with a 1250kv motor on 8s though as I have seen some MAX6 catching on fire with similar combo...so possibly I should only run that combo on 6s. I also have a MAX5 and Castle MAMBA XLX v1 with 2028-800KV 8s motor (not sure if this would be overkill though)?.. or possibly get a MMX8s.
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