I love the smell of burning esc's in the morning..

[psychotiller]

I've had pretty good luck so far with Castle's ESC's and was starting to think they were bomb proof. For some reason today my monster 2 committed suicide.
This was running on my Pintail with a 290kv G160 motor @ 6s. Not sure if it was something I did or if it was just time to burn out. ???

 

[LEVer]

The horror... the horror...

 

[LEVer]

Charlie don't surf...or skate, lol.

 

[psychotiller]

Charlie don't surf...or skate, lol.

You can either surf, or you can fight! haha!

 

[spinningmagnets]

Just out of curiosity, have you added any extra capacitors to the power inputs? I've heard that sometimes that helps...

 

[psychotiller]

Just out of curiosity, have you added any extra capacitors to the power inputs? I've heard that sometimes that helps...

No. I don't have lengthened wires and have yet to notice any surges.

 

[Carbon]

Sometimes, usually in cheaper ESCs, the insulation pad between the heatsink and the mosfets can have tiny holes which allows the two to short circuit. Idk, just open it and check it out. However, this is more common for cheap ESCs, but castle should have done inspections to make sure that doesn't happen.

 

[psychotiller]

Sometimes, usually in cheaper ESCs, the insulation pad between the heatsink and the mosfets can have tiny holes which allows the two to short circuit. Idk, just open it and check it out. However, this is more common for cheap ESCs, but castle should have done inspections to make sure that doesn't happen.

Thanks for the tip! I'll open it up since I don't think they'll warranty me.

 

[psychotiller]

Well, I guess getting a look at things inside the Monster 2 isn't really a possibility since it's waterproofed. How would I go about getting past the waterproofing? Can it be dissolved without further damaging the board?

 

[Gregory]

You can remove potting but it is difficult. If you just want to remove a small bit around a MOSFET I'd use a chisel bit on the soldering iron to soften and scrape.

 

[psychotiller]

You can remove potting but it is difficult. If you just want to remove a small bit around a MOSFET I'd use a chisel bit on the soldering iron to soften and scrape.

Well since it already doesn't work I'll give it a shot. Thanks!