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First RX8 finally went up in smoke - 02.20.2012, 12:41 AM
My first RX8 that I did a review on, finally went up in smoke tonite. My Gensace batts puffed up too. So I'm thinking my batts caused the mishap. Sad day.

So what is the rumor of Tekin coming up with a new RX8??




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02.20.2012, 10:48 AM
lol, that thing really flamed up didn't it!
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02.20.2012, 11:14 AM
Yes it did man. It will be missed. I replaced it with a Mamba Monster last nite. Good part was the Mamba Monster has mo' power. Bad part is, MMonster coggs way too much at startup compared to the Tekin pulling the same gear ratio in sensorless mode.

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02.20.2012, 05:54 PM
Looks a lot like my first mmm v1. Sorry to see this...hopefully you saved your rig and only lost the esc.

1. MBX-6 T8 1900KV, RX8 ON 4S
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Yea, the rig was saved. I reconfigured the puffy batteries into 3s packs today. I'll use them for low amp stuff from now, untill they give up the ghost. They still take 4500mah.



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02.20.2012, 07:26 PM
Whatcha using those prismatic cells in the background for?
   
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02.20.2012, 07:36 PM
I use them in my TX and bike lights.

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02.20.2012, 10:13 PM
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Yea, the rig was saved. I reconfigured the puffy batteries into 3s packs today. I'll use them for low amp stuff from now, untill they give up the ghost. They still take 4500mah.
Glad to hear that you saved you ride. I haven't gotten up the ambition to disassemble a lipo yet and reconfigure it.

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02.20.2012, 11:17 PM
Wooah.. That's really toasty

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02.21.2012, 08:17 AM
Glad to hear you saved the rest of the car Romano.

That looks like it was a good size fire.

How long have you had that RX8 for?

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02.21.2012, 09:30 AM
I had that ESC since May 2009. How time flies by.

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02.21.2012, 01:43 PM
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Bad part is, MMonster coggs way too much at startup compared to the Tekin pulling the same gear ratio in sensorless mode.
What firmware version are you running?...
   
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What firmware version are you running?...
Running the latest one, which is not the beta version.

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02.21.2012, 09:07 PM
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Running the latest one, which is not the beta version.
try going back to 1.24

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2. MBX-5T 1520, MMM ON 5S
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