ESC fried?
 

I just recently bought a brushed e-Revo and I think I blew the ESC.

I bought it new in mid August and registered it with Traxxas. Since then I had one of the stock batteries melt down which they replaced for me at no charge saying it could be a bad cell or bad ESC.

Anywho after running a few batteries through it today, letting it sit an hour or so, then putting a set of full DTX5000 packs in it, I turned the ESC on and smoke started pouring out of it. As soon as I saw it I unplugged the bats and let it finish it's smoke billowing. Now I have a paper weight. Can this be fixed? And more importantly will Traxxas stand behind this and help me out with a new one?

Definitely sounds like a bad ESC. Traxxas should still have your battery replacement on file, so that should help your case anyways. Hopefully they will help you out again! :smile:

Call up traxxas, I'd be surprised if they didn't send one out to you :)
My experience has been great with their CS, and I think generally those ESCs are pretty solid.

I called this morning and they said to send it back to them. Worst case scenario I pay them $20 for a new one.

Can't complain there.

For the sake of your marrage though you may with to checkout mikes great price in a mamba monster esc and castles price on a 1518.

Almost afraid to ask but how could going brushless save my marriage? LOL And where do I look for these prices? I'm always up for an upgrade. :-)

rc-monster.com for the esc
castlecreations.com for the 1518

Low power cars can lead to feelings of inadequancy which quickly results in depression and loss of nighttime persuits. ;)

LOL! Thanks for your concern but we've actually been married for 4 years now. We have a 2 year old and my wife is due with our 2nd in January. So we're good there. :-)

Fed-Ex dropped off my new (free) EVX2 today. Traxxas pulls through again!