What should I do?
 

Hey guys, I have a MMM V3 that is in need of non-warranty repair. Should I spend $70 and send it back to castle or get one of the refurb MMMs for $100?

If I were you, I would send it back to castle as it's cheaper and the refurbished have no on/off-switch if I recall correctly.
But if I had the money and wanted a MMM (personally I prefer Schulze ESCs, but doesn't matter in this case), I would buy an additional refurbished MMM for the times when your main-ESC is broken and with CC for repair so I could still run my truck:whistle:

Depends on your patience and your wallet! Can you wait or not? Do you have the extra to buy a refurb? Maybe buy the refurb and send the other in at a later time.

That's what I'm thinking, Erevonut. If I do get a refurb, I hope it comes with bullets for the motor wires, rather than leads coming off of the board, my setup calls for that.

get a v3. why not get the latest and greatest for less money. no- brainer to me..


or do both.

How is it out of warranty repair? I dont think the V3's have been around for longer than a year?

That's probably what I'm going to do. Only reason for not doing so is because the refurbs could only last so long before they're all gone- whereas I can get my V3 repaired any time.

Hemiblas- It is non-warranty because the RX wires yanked off of the board, I tried to repair it, and it didn't work out, so I have to send it back... WHY OH WHY did I not just get it warranty repaired in the first place... impatient little bastard I am I guess.

I would send yours back to castle and get a refurb while you wait, it pays to have a spare ESC :)

If I only had enough $ to do one or the other right now. I would get a refurbished esc now for that price. If there are any left. Then when I had the money to have the other esc fixed I would send it in. Then I would have two MMM esc for 175 and some change. The non warrenty work will still be going on long after the refurbished esc have be sold.

Think of it this way. You are doing other people a favor by not getting the refurb! :angel:

I wonder how much a defective controller would bring on ebay?
Maybe just buy a refurb and sell the controller online.
I'm sure these things have some value to someone that knows how to fix them.

You SHOULD learn how to solder and just solder those leads back on. I mean you already messed up with the warranty just give it another shot.. If you mess something else up no big deal... But you can always have a small chance of fixing it.... I just recently soldered RX wires back onto my MM wasn't to difficult.. Just get a nice iron and have some patience..

i HATE refurbed anything.....re-furb to me is selling TRASH!!

YFZ- you just dont get it do you? The middle tab is UNSOLDERABLE.

So then how does castle do it? You know you can pay 15 bucks to get the leads soldered back on right? I had no problem soldering my middle wire...

The tab is NOT there. A train of impatience and stupid ideas led to the tab disappearing.

So then just pay 15 bucks to get the wires soldered back on...

But I think me trying to do it myself and f*cking up will void that $15 repair and make me have to pay $70 for it. I fail, I know.

Its worth a shot to save 55 bucks...

Yeah- I think I'll call CC in a bit and see what they can do for me.