[Finnster]

Wow, this is going to be an expensive F'up. IMO, they should have never sold a RTR truck advertised with that much voltage and speed together on a 1Y motor. Its just tempting the noob public to abuse it and blow it up.

I understand the tech reasons why better batteries are better, but making premium batts are requirement are a mistake IMO. First of all, which exactly are the premium batts? Does HPI/CC supply an approved list of part #'s? I have a pretty good idea being here and playing w/ BL for so long, but the avg kid walking into a LHS to buy a flux will have no idea. Worse off, many manufacturers over sell their batts (one infamous company comes to mind, but not the only one) let alone the things people find on ebay and word of mouth.

So expecting some dude, who just dropped $600 on a new BL truck to go out and spend $300 on a single pair of batts is crazy. They are not going to do it. Esp as was alluded to earlier bc of a decision to have lower specs on the MMM vs other controllers that may be able to withstand the higher ripple voltages.

Have the OEMs visited a LHS recently and really watched some of the trucks brought in for repair? People do really stupid things to them. Some out of ignorance, some out of neglect, and others simply bc they are cheap. (Face it, this hobby is very expensive and you have to find a way to cut corners.) How did they do they beta testing? Giving things to the people that know what they are doing and are careful with things? Or give it to the biggest idiots you can find and let them jump their trucks off houses and let them see if they can break it? The later is far more predictive of the marketplace performance IMO. [Reminds me of the the big banks saying their mortgage backed securities are fine and stable, assuming housing prices continue to rise, then shocked when the bubble bursts and everything implodes]

I've done it. Electric noobs dont understand batteries. A batt is a batt right? ;) I remember the 1st RC10 I bought I got crappy powerizers off Ebay for it and I thought that was expensive.

IF OEMs are going to really jump into RTR BL vehicles, they need to have the engineers go down to the marketing dept and beat them over the head first. Overselling the specs, pushing #'s to their limit is going to backfire. I know its not sexy, but BSing the #'s on a BL = failures, while overstating #'s on a nitro has little consequences. I can say whatever HP on a nitro as no one can ever replicate that #, and it will just run whatever it runs anyway. If someone complains, blame their tuning, fuel, weather or whatever.

Putting 62mph on a box, saying 6S (46K rpm+) on that motor, and giving them a huge pinion in the box to try it is asking for it. I feel better running a MM on 5S w/ an XL motor than that. Anyone that tried that setup on a vehicle here would be told they are an idiot and will smoke their system. You can push things if you are really careful and really know what you are doing, but in the end most of us here run these motors much more calmly (28-32K) and we have reliable systems that perform great.

Don't treat the truck community like they are plane or heli people. They are not. Some are really careful, but many are just out to bash and break stuff. Thanks for providing fodder to the nitro heads to why BL sucks and cant even do what it says on the box w/o smoking or spending endless $100s to get an hr of bash time.