castle curupted my hard drive...
 

I was helping a local kid with is 1/8 E buggy today...

his setup
losi 8, MM, 4s, CC bec, NEU 1512 3.5d

He fried or striping servos after less then 3min of running(I made sure the EPAs were correct)

I wanted to check the voltage that the CC bec was set at, so I plugged in the castle link, plugged it into my laptop, and nothing except the yellow flashing light on the MM

so I read the "trouble shooting" part of the intro screen to see why it wont initialize properly.

Castle claims that the USB port can't supply the amps to power up the CCbec and MM, understandable....

as a solution Castle suggests that you plug in a batt to the esc, so I give that a try, BAD IDEA

my laptop shuts down/black screens instantly and won't reboot past the windows loading screen, before restarting.

after 3hrs of fighting with it, I narrow it down the the windows section of my HD is corrupted, I tried EVERYTHING I could to not have to reinstall windows, but it still needed to be reinstalled/ and the boot section of the HD reformatted...


I am not a noob when It comes to computers/RC but I still don't get WTF happened and I'm VERY POed that I have to reinstall windows and sit through 6hrs of updates
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Maybe damage to the ESC is what caused this problem. No reason on a working ESC/BEC why this would happen.

Sounds like something was happening allowing the voltage to pass straight through instead of regulating it like it should have.

I think everything would have fired, RXs and servos don't like 4s, and he didn't have any other problems with the buggy...


a local driver suggested that the servo was rubbing in the chassis and causing them to fry/strip, it started raining before I got a chance to test it out.







castle's phones don't seem to be working, I just get this weird scratching noise

Sounds to me like another fried CC BEC. I had a few of them fry on me right out of the box. One was in my mini revo on 4s... the servo case got to 135*F! It's the only product from castle that's been less than great in my experience.