Do you have another Spektrum or a DSM2 compatible receiver you can use other than the AVC one? I have one of those SR3100 orange receivers and had a TBLE-02S soldered directly into a Torque Tuned motor and it ran without getting hot.

I hadn't considered tha the AVC reciever might actaully draw significant current...

If it's the case, it also doesn't help that the TBLE-02S has, like, no fancy features on it to protect itself from too much current besides the basic over voltage. But considering the quantity made, it wouldn't surprise me that better protection measures were cut for cost. Which is too bad. The TBLE-02 is great.

My friend's car has a orange reciver that I wired directly with no problems so far. I'm waiting for the LHS to get me a 2 channel spectrum reciver think it's the sr215. Personally I think that Tamiya ESC is a POS. $70 for that thing is way to much. The only reason I'm using it is because the track requires it for the class. Tamiya meeds to get out of the 1900s and put a brushless motor with a descent ESC. I don't think this one even has lipo cut off.

The list price for the TLBE02 is high. They're $25 on ebay.....

I'm trying to get my stuff from the LHS, since they have a track for me to race on. I do get practically everthing from them, but $25 is much better then the over $70. I'm already getting another motor and reciver from them to try and fix this problem. Did anyone else have this problem with this ESC?

People using high power servos in euro truck, have burned out multiple TBLE-02s. So.. "yes"

Sounds like a fairly high expenditure for an out of the box novelty class.

I run a Trackstar TS-D99X with a TBLE02 with no issue.

digital doesn't mean high powered, and HV just means it accepts HV. I mean high current draw. Savox, in general seem to fall in that category. KO Propo has a speical low current servo just for classes that specify stock ESCs.

On car that smoked ESC:
Spectrum S6180
100 oz-in @ 6.0v
0.14 sec/60* @ 6.0v

On another car I have with no problems.
Spectrum S6240Rx
208 oz-in @ 6.0v
0.08 sec/60* @6.0v

Maybe purchase another S6240Rx and put it in your problem car? I have a Savox SC-0254MG which has similar speed and it works/ed fine with the TBLE02