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

[xyllian]

Anyone had the same problem with the 80amps?

I was just aboute to order one but now i dont know, the pricing is great on those!

EDIT: woops, missed the last four pages lol

//Gustav

CC makes a nice product indeed,no doubt.But since I live in Europe.I have to send it overseas anyway,in case it fails.not sure how they handle costumer service outside USA and/or if waranty is valid for international costumers.

btw anyone knows which is standard value for punch on HW 80/150 ESCs?

[xyllian]

Standard punch is set at level 5 of 9 at both the 80amp and 150amp units.
Timing is 15degrees (lvl. 5)

//Gustav

[e-mike]

im sold for castle esc....on 7 units(v3) only one died after 6 month and i thing that my issue was caused by the crap medusa motor... and so many guy's have good result with hobbywing unit.....for me 3 150 amps died in les than 1 month....

[kostaktinos_mt]

Originally Posted by e-mike

im sold for castle esc....on 7 units(v3) only one died after 6 month and i thing that my issue was caused by the crap medusa motor...

medusa is crap?

Thanks xyllian.
I will setup my 150A with those values then and a new 8.5 SP silverarrow.

[superek4]

i race with medusa no problem i have a 1600 & 2000kv, 70mm

[hemiblas]

I think it was just that one medusa motor that was crap. So has anyone actually gotton an ESC from Hobbywing back from service? You guys could be sending them to nowhere and we prob wont find out for another couple months. Good luck though. I just learned a long time ago that when I try to save a buck I usually spend 2.

[killermmn]

two,my 2300 70mm is not dead but got 170f easily!

[kostaktinos_mt]

Originally Posted by killermmn

two,my 2300 70mm is not dead but got 170f easily!

would you post your setup please ?

[superek4]

Originally Posted by hemiblas

I think it was just that one medusa motor that was crap. So has anyone actually gotton an ESC from Hobbywing back from service? You guys could be sending them to nowhere and we prob wont find out for another couple months. Good luck though. I just learned a long time ago that when I try to save a buck I usually spend 2.

Have u tried sending back a HW 150 esc? If not how u know? I change from mmmv3 becoz it keeps breaking down not so much of saving.

[killermmn]

hyper 7
15-46 gearin
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14.8v 4s maxamp 6000mah 20c