A lot of the guys here in our area run the RX8 Gen 1 and Gen 2 in their 4x4 short course trucks. All of the ones that run the Gen 2 are having problems with battery damage and thermal ing our on 2 and 3 cell, I have a Gen one with Pro4000 I can run 2 or 3 cell on mine 16 pinion in a Losi scte all day on all the tracks. (we have 4 ovals in the area) The guys with the Gen 2's set up exactly like mine, have problems, puffing expensive hi C rated batteries and thermal ing out. We have talked to a few folks at tekin and they stand by the Gen 2 (obviously) I just sent one to tekin today that would puff batteries and thermal out, it finally died light 1,2 6,7 wrong motor type selected, which is usally the kiss of death on a tekin esc. Surely there are some setting you can set the Gen2 too to make it run like the Gen1. I like the features of the Gen 2 but I'll take the Gen 1 all day and ALL the oval racers around here will too. We all run tekin pro4 motors of some kind (and love them) wish we could get the Gen2 to run our stuff.....
As it stands if my Gen1 dies, I am going to something else..... Die hard Tekin guy here I have tons of 1/10 scale stuff RSPRO is the best esc ever made bar none...... Just sayin....