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Originally Posted by JaySki
Next question... Really...
Is .. WTF is going on? Now that these are starting to hit the masses in larger numbers, the failure rates are really starting to grow.
Rumors are around that Bernie said something about the TEST group of the new unit was much smaller than they have done on any other product...
Now.. I will say that this stuff isn't a matter of life and death.. thank god.
But it is highly highly irritating to have hundreds, if not thousands of dollars into these toys, and our parade is being rain upon...
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Ummm, we ran a check yesterday, and our failure rate on the V2 is pretty normal for a new product. In fact, the Mamba Max had almost double the failure rate in early runs as the MMM.
This is for two reasons -- first, people are using setups that aren't right -- and are damaging motors and ESCs because they don't know yet what combos actually work right (we have seen many of these at tech support here.) Second reason is that there are higher failure rates on products early from just manufacturing defects -- we tend to have a few more failures early on 'cause we don't yet know what to look for when looking for common defects (every product has something...)
Also, please note we have built ALREADY six times more V2 MMM than V1 MMM.... (almost 3000 have shipped already) So there is going to be a LOT more reports of issues, just from the sheer numbers.
Patrick