Mamba Monster dead?

Originally Posted by DickyT

Mine showed no signs. it was going and then it just stopped.


23 days tobacco today too! i had got in the habit of doing 10 pushups every time I want a ciggy and walking 5 miles every evening. It is still a dialy battle, but as Patrick said it is getting easier!

10 push ups everytime you have a craving...you must be on the ground a lot...

[bdebde]

I got my 5 minutes of thrills out of my Monster today. It just quit working like most of the rest. It is super smooth, no cogging, and I can even start out at a crawl, unlike my MGM that just seems to launch right up speed. Best thing is, my truck now (or did while it lasted) has reliable reverse, unlike the MGM, which I finally had to disable reverse on. Darn, now I have to wait on the mail again.

[jayjay283]

Mine Monster died after 12 minutes of driving. It was so nice and smooth, 1515/1y 3s maxamps 5000 x2, stopped for 30 seconds to check temps and before I got the IR gun out *poof* smoked. Unplugged the lipo quickly and sent it in last Friday.. Got a call today from Castle that they cant fix it, it wont pass the test to be returned to me, and they dont have any to send to me. They will apparently be making another batch in the middle of June and I will be sent one from that batch when they are completed. I always get the short straw lol c'est la vie, was fun while it lasted

[lincpimp]

Originally Posted by jayjay283

Mine Monster died after 12 minutes of driving. It was so nice and smooth, 1515/1y 3s maxamps 5000 x2, stopped for 30 seconds to check temps and before I got the IR gun out *poof* smoked. Unplugged the lipo quickly and sent it in last Friday.. Got a call today from Castle that they cant fix it, it wont pass the test to be returned to me, and they dont have any to send to me. They will apparently be making another batch in the middle of June and I will be sent one from that batch when they are completed. I always get the short straw lol c'est la vie, was fun while it lasted

That sucks, but you are a cretinous noob, so what do you expect? At least you caught it before it cooked anything else.

[jayjay283]

Originally Posted by lincpimp

That sucks, but you are a cretinous noob, so what do you expect? At least you caught it before it cooked anything else.

hahaha !!! good one.. guess its no0b initiation torture to stare at your truck wishing it ran

Linc,

You never fail to crack me up. I'm interested to see what happens with the next batch, and still glad I waited :).

J.

[Happywing]

So many of us were begging to beta-test the MMM. So many were turned down. It appears we could have saved CC a ton of money and trouble. Maybe next time.

[RBMike]

Mine died Sunday after about 80 too 90 minutes of run time. It gitched a couple of times & then just stopped. It was not hot at all. My set-up is Nue1512 3D, 6S A123's & 14/46 gearing in a buggy. Sent it in on Monday morning. Hope it's fixable.

[tc3_racer_001]

jeez, if i were them, ad swap suppliers, and heck, why not sue them :D

[TexasSP]

I just got the same call from Chris that said mid June and mine was not fixable. I don't really understand why, as mine did not have a catastrophic melt down, it just quit working. I sent a note to Joe and am awaiting an answer.

[jayjay283]

Originally Posted by TexasSP

I just got the same call from Chris that said mid June and mine was not fixable. I don't really understand why, as mine did not have a catastrophic melt down, it just quit working. I sent a note to Joe and am awaiting an answer.

A month is kind of a long time IMO for them to hang on to $170 , Joe should send us a Hydra 240HV to play with while we wait or at least a Mamba

[JerryF504]

Originally Posted by TexasSP

I just got the same call from Chris that said mid June and mine was not fixable. I don't really understand why, as mine did not have a catastrophic melt down, it just quit working. I sent a note to Joe and am awaiting an answer.

I got the same call yesterday and sent an email to Joe last night, but he hasn't replied yet. They said it wouldn't pass the test so they were going to scrap it. I'm sooo bummed.

[macr0w]

Yeah, I got the call today as well. The girl said it could not be repaired.

I could have told her that. You could take one look at mine and guess it was not going to be repaired.

It was a melted blob of plastic and some loose wires in the box.

I'm thinking about buying another one before mine gets back.

Is that a dumb idea? Maybe it'll last a few rounds like the last one.

[e-mike]

now its time for me to have some problem...symptom...the esc cut and the light of my receiver blink(spektrum)i turn the mmm off and when i turn on it work like new

i run my my today with a 8000mah maxamp today and no issue at all

later i run with 4000mah hecell 25c for the first time and ive got this probleme

tomorow i will re-test with the 8000mah maxamp

my set up...4 cell lipo
feigao 9l
mmm

[lincpimp]

Any reasons why they cannot be repaired? Are the boards crapping out, or just a bunch of components that are not worth replacing?