For all these reasons i never sell stuff to friends. Either its a gift or nothing. (and i can be pretty generous to peope who deserve/not afford)
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
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I hear you , and yeah , it sucks that I am going to eat the esc , but what if I sold it to you and it lasted 5 minutes , you wouldn't be calling me back demanding something ? I am unbelievably surprised it quit like that on his first run out , but then again not surprised as all the internet complaints about Traxxas electronics , especially ESC's !!!
Whenever I sell an RC , either to a friend or a stranger I am totally confident in what I sell , the last thing I need is for whomever to think I ripped you off . Not worth it , he gets a new ESC , being the ESC is the heart of the operation , whatever or whenever happens to the new one , then I'm out .
I think the TRX ESC has a thermal shutdown to not have this happen . I can see now I have the truck in my possession , it really wasn't used long , or hard on that day it broke .
Thank you Rob , but first I'm going to call my LHS tomorrow , cause that is where I bought it from and see what he says . After that , I will put a brand new one in the truck so this way my friend doesn't burn up a used one and blame it again on that . If he does burn up a new one because of heat ( July / Aug ) then maybe he'll say to himself , hmmm , was it me ????I have an xmaxx esc, we could work a deal if you want.
Good on you buddy. Could be the difference between having a new race/bash buddy or not.. having a failure so quickly could easily sway most folks away from the hobby.For the record , if it was still mine , and I was ripping it around and this happened ( ESC let go ) , I would not be putting that crap back in it , it would be getting a Max6 . But , he / they are not very RC savvy , need it to be factory / plug and play , ntm , it would be even more work for me to redo the mounting / motor extension wires / solder on TRX plugs / ntm cost more . JennysRC $109 for the ESC , but will call my LHS to see how much from them , which they really always take care of me .
The servos may still be the cause. Despite them working. Disconnect the servos to see if the ESC's come back to life.No because both trucks ( fully charged batts ) servos work perfectly . I know what you are saying cause this happened in my friends RTR K6S , the servo died and it wouldn't allow the esc to work ( learned the hard way , replaced ESC and that wasn't it ) , new servo , everything worked !!!
I researched and many . many reports of this VXL 6s ESC in the Erevo 2.0 / UDR / Sledge giving shitting the bed . If the truck were still mine , I'd throw a Max6 in it , but I will just get a new one from JRC and be done with it .
You are a good manFor all these reasons i never sell stuff to friends. Either its a gift or nothing. (and i can be pretty generous to peope who deserve/not afford)
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
Yep been there.For all these reasons i never sell stuff to friends. Either its a gift or nothing. (and i can be pretty generous to peope who deserve/not afford)
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
Hey I'll go halves if you wantI can fix both real easy. I'll buy them off you for real cheap!! You won't find a better deal. $200 a piece!!
So that's $400 for both trucks. Not a better deal on the inter‐web!!!! NO WHERE!!!!
I’m with you. If my buddy has an esc go bad then my buddy needs to buy an esc no me. There’s no telling what he did to break two trucks.Don't want to be that guy, but why is it your issue?
Even if it's my best mate, he isn't getting an ESC out of me after buying it, especially in a bash where he broke his existing one
I agree to a point , if the truck came back hammered and shows signs that he used it multiple battery packs , I'd go with that , what did he do ? But it didn't , the truck ran for about 5 minutes , came back pretty much as clean as I gave it to him which is how I know he only ran it for a very short time , not enough time to heat the death out of it . You can't plug the batteries in backwards on a TRX , so he didn't do that .I’m with you. If my buddy has an esc go bad then my buddy needs to buy an esc no me. There’s no telling what he did to break two trucks.
Believe me , I hear you , if the truck was still ,mine , it would have gotten a Max 6 !!! But remember , my friend is not very RC savvy , needs plug and play / factory batteries / chargers ! he doesn't even want to get aftermarket charger to speed things up !!! The TRX charger takes foreverrrrrrrr to put them in storage !!!Get rid of that crappy TRX ESC already. Why stayng with that? Just being a glutten for punishment.
Even the Spektrum 8s ESC is way better. Which is not much to say.......
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