Hydra 240 Hv's Dead Batch

There's no water in my living room and dont these sometimes go durring set up? I remember my boat guy telling me back in the day the barracudas would flame on while I guy started a race..smoke would suddenly start pouring out of the boats and the whole thing would burn down. He has seen them catch fire by just plugging them in. I now have a 450.00 dollar control comming that I dont want and I'm stuck with (who can I sell it to? answer..nobody). If I fry a brand new pair of pq 5s 6000 packs or my whole boat...I'll most likely be kicked off this forum cause I'll leave a post that makes MK351E look like marry poppins.

[Pdelcast]

Originally Posted by coolrunnings

There's no water in my living room and dont these sometimes go durring set up? I remember my boat guy telling me back in the day the barracudas would flame on while I guy started a race..smoke would suddenly start pouring out of the boats and the whole thing would burn down. He has seen them catch fire by just plugging them in. I now have a 450.00 dollar control comming that I dont want and I'm stuck with (who can I sell it to? answer..nobody). If I fry a brand new pair of pq 5s 6000 packs or my whole boat...I'll most likely be kicked off this forum cause I'll leave a post that makes MK351E look like marry poppins.

LOL, the people who had speed controls die on plugin destroyed their motors and ESCs due to bad setups -- first they destroy the motor, and then the ESC dies afterwards, but they don't know that there is a problem because the battery dies right afterwards. Then they plug in a new battery, and poof!

Most boat guys have NO IDEA how many amps they actually pull on their boats. I've seen setups (sent in for us to test) that draw in excess of 2000 amps. They just assume that a faster motor (higher Kv) and larger prop is always a good thing...

And that's why boat guys fry ESCs like popcorn. And also why we don't have the same warranty with boat ESCs as car/airplane ESCs.

[MTBikerTim]

Originally Posted by Pdelcast

LOL, the people who had speed controls die on plugin destroyed their motors and ESCs due to bad setups -- first they destroy the motor, and then the ESC dies afterwards, but they don't know that there is a problem because the battery dies right afterwards. Then they plug in a new battery, and poof!

Most boat guys have NO IDEA how many amps they actually pull on their boats. I've seen setups (sent in for us to test) that draw in excess of 2000 amps. They just assume that a faster motor (higher Kv) and larger prop is always a good thing...

And that's why boat guys fry ESCs like popcorn. And also why we don't have the same warranty with boat ESCs as car/airplane ESCs.

I think this applies to a lot of people with cars and planes as well. I have seen a lot of people on line (not here people know better) and locally completely under estimate the number of amps their setup is pulling. The only way I have any idea is because I have run or seen run almost identical setups with an eagle tree attached. It's really hard to guess the amps thing.