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Old 01-20-2018 | 06:58 AM
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I have a D413 buggy I bought used and got a Hobbywing V2 Blue ESC and a 6.5 Hobbywing V10 motor Futaba PX4 with a R304SB reviecer along with a digital Savox servo, about 1 minute in the negative wire on the ESC melted, borrowed a Tekin RSX and no issues the rest of the day. Replace the ESC With a Reedy 1000Z same issue same result with the RSX, put a Reedy 510R in same issue any ideas or thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
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Old 01-28-2018 | 09:37 AM
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Loose or partial connection somewhere? Seems weird didn't happen on the Tekin though. Maybe wire is almost busted inside and being bumped around its making/breaking contact internally?
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Old 01-28-2018 | 09:52 AM
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change the 6.5 to a larger motor as in 8.5
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Old 01-28-2018 | 10:10 AM
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The biggest thing in my opinion would be the size of wire used, on my losi scte I would melt that wire off of the rx8 esc, went to a different 12 gauge wire brand and the problem went away, I had been using the viper stuff, then tried some tekin and Novak, finally settled on deans wire
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