Quark fried, blown capacitor...

OK guys, I just got off of the phone with the guys at Quark. Get this, they told me that running the Quark Monster Pro in my Muggy conversion is going to be running the esc on the ragged edge. All of their testing is on around 9lb truggies, which is the max that they recommend. The guy that I spoke to did in fact say that the Monster Pro is a 1/10 scale esc, and any running in 1/8 scale conversions has been for testing purposes. It looks like I was doing all of that ragging on the MM controllers for nothing. What I needed was a lighter truck. That leaves me SOL with my Muggy.

He also told me that he definitely recommends the addition of more caps. His words were, "the more the merrier." They are just recommending the Novak high voltage caps because they are readily available. It appears that the caps will fry if over worked and it's pretty easy to do in an 1/8 scale conversion.

I was also told that the Quarks do better with four pole motors as opposed to two pole motors. The reason being that the four polers like the timing at which the Quark runs better than the two polers do. He also recommended the use of the 2.5D for 1/8 scale truck applications; and they are running maxamps 8Ah packs for their testing.

It looks like getting those caps was a good idea. I'm going to add as many as I can.

BTW, they are working on a new esc. Presumably the Plasma. He said that it is also a 1/10 scale esc, but they are taking measures to keep it cool. It's funny, because he also recommended the use of an RC Monster heatsink.

OK, just wanted to share the info.