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[BrianG]

Both my V3's have socketed battery and motor leads. According to a previous post by Patrick (I think), it's the luck of the draw; some V3's are like what I have, some are like what you have.

[Sammus]

Originally Posted by BrianG

Both my V3's have socketed battery and motor leads. According to a previous post by Patrick (I think), it's the luck of the draw; some V3's are like what I have, some are like what you have.

Yeah, now that you mention it I seem to recall that the V3's with sockets are older V3s, but the later revised PCBs all have hardwired battery plugs.

Sounds like a problem with the brake setting though, I hadn't realised the lockup thing.

What remote were you using? I was pretty stupid for overlooking this, but I had forgot to calibrate my futaba tx, and it was doing the locking up thing.

Turned out that from the ESCs perspective, I was driving around in reverse (at 50%) and hitting the brakes on the tx was just sending the esc into full throttle forward. Certainly not a good idea. Make sure you reverse the throttle channel on futaba Tx, then recalibrate ESC.