150amps hobbywing esc in fire in my house!!!

[BrianG]

How are they ripping people off? Many/most do work, and work just fine. Yeah, their support leaves much to be desired, but a company is in business to make money and to offer such a cheap ESC for the capabilities, they must have to cut corners somewhere.

Look at Feigao; they are cheap motors that do the job. But, they are not as good as a high priced motor and have issues. On the same token, Neus are high priced, but have occasional issues as well.

Any high performance system, whether it be cars, audio, r/c, etc, is running closer to "the rail". So, it is understandable that there will be malfunctions.

The only point I'll grant you is that they should readily honor a warranty for defects. But to expect high-end ESC performance/support without paying the high-end price is not reasonable IMO.

Not trying to single anyone out or diminish the fact that these components failed, just trying to put things into perspective.

I've a 80A burnt and have sent it directly to HW after-sales address,this was 15 days ago and since then I have no news.
I dont thing they rip us off,HW is not a small company and have a name to honour. I hope
I will update when I have news from my Asia travelling esc.

[Raze ST Truggy]

I have a 80A that is still working flawlessly, but I fully expect it to fail. Maybe it won't, but thats the atitude that I have about it. I bought a $75 esc to try out and so far it's working fine for me. If it does fail I can't see sending it back to hobby wing being an option. It would have to be a free or very cheap replacement fee to make it worth while.

And for those of you that think you deserve the over the top customer service that castle and some other provide stick with the R/C's. If I pay an engine builder to build me a stroker motor for my mustang and it blows up first time out, who do you think is going to take the hit? I'll give you a clue, it's not going to be anyone but me.

As other have said you get what you pay for.


-Brian