Speed Passion Silver Arrow ESC opinions

My buddy had a brand new Speed Passion setup just like that one that was dead from the get go. Wouldnt do anything. He called them and they sent him a brand new setup. Put it on its actually would program and we ran it for maybe 5 minutes at the most and it let the magic smoke out. He called Speed Passion again and there words were "We are suprised it lasted that long. 5 minutes is the longest run time we have had yet. Normally they go dead when you switch them on on the bench to program" They said there was a bad batch or something and are currently working on a V2 model.