Quark Woes --- Need help please

[Serum]

what ubec where you using brian?

You are using a mm controller IIRC?

[zeropointbug]

He is using the Quark.

When mine was doing this, after a few minutes of running, the truck would just stop, alot of the time when I would go reverse/forward. But I don't remember if I lost steering or not, but I had to switch off the controller, then on again. It was not thermalling, the case was quite cool. This was actually after I saw the capacitor electrolyte on the outside of the controller (collected dust). So I guess one cap was still working, it was weird.

[BrianG]

Originally Posted by Serum

what ubec where you using brian?

You are using a mm controller IIRC?

Oops, I guess I missed this...

Yeah, ZPB is correct, I was using the Quark. The problem has got to be the BEC though. Remember that ParkBEC I tested? Well, Mike wanted to know how it would do in the Hyper 8. Well, now we know. I had forgotten I put it in there. Seeing as how it is only rated for 1.25A, it makes sense that it overheated under racing loads. I want to do some more testing to see exactly how the BEC reacts when it gets to shutdown temps. Certainly explains my problem!