Originally Posted by
targetingxmod
-Ahahahhahhaha.
After 2 months of use, the Reventon Pro smoked and injured only my deans connector! Didn't know the reason, i never had bash it, only asphalt speed runs...no jumps either!
Yesterday after 3months i bashed her for 1 minute softly and suddendly she stop... i thought, allright the baterys are over... they were in storage mode for 1month!
Grab the car in my hand and noticed smoked come from the shell... hurry up and disconnected the lipos!
It was the ESC that smoked. Then i opened it and i guess it started on the fets and melted all around including case plastic....
Got myself now on the market for a solid company then!
For not even an year and maybe 10 runs times...
Never go back to this brand.... which i thought it was good from racers and so on...crap!
For not even an year and maybe 10 runs times... China is degrading the world! Things should last 10years not 10days!
The information you provided is a bit telling that it's either one of 3 things…
1. Either something was shorting out OR the crappy Dean's Connector caused the short.
2. Since the car had smoked last time you ran it YOU should have taken precautions and checked to see what was causing the short and fixed it BEFORE choosing to run it again. The fact that it ran for a minute means the ESC was still functioning perfectly fine which is indicative that the ESC itself was perfectly fine.
3. Did you register your product with SP? If so you'd have an excellent warranty and they'd take care of the issue for you.
I bought 2 Reventon Pro ESC's and one worked perfectly fine and the other had a glitch in it and it would only kick in if you banged the car, thereby prompting whatever was loose inside or finicky to make contact and transfer power to the motor. I contacted them and they sent me an RMA to send the ESC in and they simply sent me a brand new one, no questions asked.
Go HERE to register your Speed Passion Products.
Simply create a user name and password and have your product numbers handy. (should be a little holographic sticker on the registration card with a number on it)