Can you attach picture?

i tried to flash some shots, but it didn't work to well, when I get up close it gets all fuzz and i can only take far back shots, which dosen't show you anything.

Now what happend was I got it all set up, plugged everything in and it worked fine, turned off, pulled full throttle to set, turned on, and poof, poof, the two FETS closest to the neg batt cable popped, I then plugged in the motor and tried it and the two FETS closest to the 330 caps in the opposite the wiring leads went POP.

my guess is that this is due to pure haste doing the job, my good iron was on the fritz and so I had to use my Hobbico Iron, which cost about $5 about 8 years ago so you can see the quality. Next I had to really heat up the board to remove the stock caps due to the bad iron and my desodering iron has the huge fixture on it with the bulb so I could not get it in there because it is next to the black bank. So a lot of heat was put on the board and it was hard to get the caps free and get a good soder, which I thought would pass, but I guess not. i am not guessing it is due to a bad connection, just hastey craftsmanship due to me trying to get this due as well as my nitro truck rebuilt before a big race coming up. i also do build cicuits at work, but was not epecting anything this small. I bought all the parts then the Mamba so i kinda put the cart before the horse and didn't look what i was getting into first. I am just scrapping this and buying a new one, I originally got this for a pretty good deal, but now I have to pay full price. I am not going to crack open this new Mamba and just add the auxilary cap on the battery leads and the zener diode under the battery leads. i also have two Novak fans I am going to add, if they don't cool it down at least they will look cool. I'm just going to write it off as a lesson learned and maybe if this mamba I'm trying next heats up to bad, griffinru will have some $$ in his paypal account.

GriffinRu - how difficult would it be to mod the MM further to accept 6s? Depending on the price, I might be interested in something like that. I want to run 6s in my new Emaxx with a Neu motor. I was thinking about the MGM but I noticed people are smoking them. Think it would be able to handle it?

Traxrob, GriffenRU would know better, but I think the stage1 and 2 mod's enable the older MM's to run 6S. Not sure about the new MM's though as some guy's are having a hard time with running them on 4S. There's a thread about that currently.

Some day we'll get the MMM and be able to run 6S under warranty :)

I am going to test 6S version this coming week-end. Once it would be done their would be limit on minimum 3S LiPo and custom cutoff, I am no sure yet, need to be tested.

DrKnow65: this link is for you, unless I am missing something.

- Waiting for MMM with Neu-like motors combo as well.

- What for you need warranty if it works :)

Sounds good artur, keep us posted! I am still running the modded mm you sent me in my revo, it works well and stays very cool. Startup and overall feel is much improved over the stock mm.

I can't wait for the MMM I have no patience.:lol: But whenever it comes out Ill be sure to grab one.

GriffinRU - I noticed your from MD. What part? I'm in Mount Airy. I work at Northrop Grumman in Sykesville. You sound like you know your stuff. I try to get me EE buddies to get into the RC's but they never seem interested.

I think alot of people see RCs as just toys, regardless of price. Perhaps a demo is in order.

Crofton,
It is hard to match Job and Hobby...

unless you work at a hobby shop! :lol:

:party::party::party: Just resurected mustbnitro's dead MM :party::party::party:

Long story short, the solder from one of the caps was touching one of the buss leads. It actually had 12 burnt fet's and 2 that were cracked from taking the heat sink off. It has a few lifted traces and 3 of the copper sleeves that interconnect the pcb were pulled out so it took a little creative soldering.

I didn't keep the mod though, didn't want to spend the time if it wasn't going to work and I'm not taking it apart again to try. So at this point it just has the better caps, diode, and deans wet noodle wire. Think I'll attach a fan and call it good.

You can do it :rules:
Nowadays broken Mamba's on eBay have some value...:yes:

Fets are hard to change :surprised: I only had to do one in the first MM I modded.

Soon I should have some funds for some more lipos, 4S will happen soon.

After that (5S) is when I convert the hyper7 to brushless.:yipi:

If anyone has a spare brain board or a fried MM with a working brain board, I could use one and will pay fair price. PM me. Thx

I just ran my Mamba Max on 5s. Had a zippy 4000mah pack, and turnigy 50-55 600kv outrunner

riffenRU has a few, I've got one that had a few traces lifted, but would require a skilled hand to make function again...

How bad is the damage to your brain board?

:) How do you know that... :)

Have you acquired what you need?

I heard it from the horses mouth (I'd search for the post where you said it, mabey later today :)

Mabey it's just because you have never dissapointed before, hahahaha

Well, many of the little circular clamps the board jumpers solder into came out so I can't solder the jumpers in. Had a few traces lift as well so it's beyond my skills at this point.

think Castle would sell the brains seperate? Or, is running to power boards in parallel as straight forward as connecting to boards in parallel?

I do not think so, but you can try.

If you had so much trouble with just brains pcb, I won't recomend to play with Fet's boards.

I can sell you one, but rather fix your ESC...