Apparently I spoke to soon on the other thread about my Havoc ESC's problem being solved. It was not my venom battery.The problem got allot worse and finally my ESC failed. first my blue and amber stuck on for a longer period of time then what I stated in my other post before, yet the motor temp was only 89 degrees f. I got bumped during the race and then it shut down showing blue amber and red. Had no throttle until I turned it on and off but still the blue and amber light stuck on. Again motor temp is only 89 degrees . took car home and let it sit over night and turned it on only to see that the blue and amber and red lights stuck on still, yet I have throttle. I also have a couple more people in my race club that are having premature motor thermal shutdown problem. We checked all the normal things like drag brake and other ESC setup parameters. ESC'c are cutting out between 89 to 140 degrees yet your manual says the motors should be geared up until you get to temperature of 160-175 degrees.None of us are even near this. I'm sorry but there is just to many of the Havoc's cutting out prematurely out there. What is Novak going to do to solve this problem besides making us all pay to send our ESC in to be fixed?? We are past denying there's a problem with them as I've seen it with my own eyes on ,at least 3 besides my own.. I 've packed up the ESC and sent it to you but I feel It's not right that I have to pay to ship it to you to be fixed for a faulty product. At the end of the day, I ended up paying MORE for my ESC then the guy who bought one and it worked! I don't see why it should cost me more money to own a faulty one. Again, to many are failing to say they are isolated incidents . I'm a little frustrated as it taking me 5 weeks to get to the bottom of the problem. Didn't want to blame it on a brand new ESC so I checked everything else. Even with talking to Novak who wanted to blame my battery first.
I've been racing off and on for a good 20 years. Always used Tekins back long ago and then used LRP ESC when Tekin took a break. This is my first venture into using Novak products and I can say that I am not happy. I realize shipping is only 5 bucks but its the principle of I'm talking about. We put our trust in you when we buy your products to sell us a GOOD product. I think its a poor business practice to charge customers ANYTHING MORE for faulty products.It's already costing us the inconvenience of lost time and in my case, missing out on the USVTA nationals that cost me 50.00 bucks to sign up for and looks like I won't get my ESC in time to make the race. Unless I want to pay for expedited shipping and thus costing me even more money to own your product. At the very least you could expedite the return shipping ,on your bill, to try and make up for having us buy products that perhaps should have spent more time in testing and to minimize anymore lost race days. I'm not trying to say all you make is bad products. but every company can have a "bad lot" of something made. Just own up to it and make it right.