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Old 12-01-2015 | 10:19 PM
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Nothing new here.

This new Tekin ain't the legendary brand from yesteryear and I personally had 2 RS Pro ESC's present with problems and at JConcepts Supercup a couple years ago, not one, not two, but THREE 8th scale buggies simply stopped working without warning in the A-main. One simply died and no signs of damage but the other two overheated to the point the posts literally unsoldered from he ESC completely.

On my RS Pro's I was experiencing Brown Outs randomly and I'd be doing really well and suddenly my cars would dart to one side or take off and not respond to inputs and I was advised by Tekin people on here as well as a few locals that I might want to try a Glitch Buster because they all felt my Savox servo's draw were the root cause of the issue on both cars. So I bought them installed, went out and immediately the issue persisted. They them suggested it was my Radio so I borrowed my buddy's MT-4 and the issue was still present so that ruled out the radio.

I then took a Reventon R ESC I had on my son's car and installed it and the issue disappeared immediately.

When I told Tekin Reps about my issue they insisted it wasn't their ESC even though I eliminated their product and miraculously no more issues. I promptly ripped them out of my cars, sold them and bought Reventon Pros and a couple Hobbywing ESC's. Been over 2 years now and never a single glitch or brown out. Sad to say but after only ever running Tekin faithfully, to the point I still have my old 411P on my almost 30 year old Andy's Carbon Composite RC10, I will never own another Tekin product again.
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