Originally Posted by kriiiss

so i was plugging in my banana plugs into my lipo (trakpower) lipo with tubes.

I have:
-Speed Passion GT2.0 Carbon Ed. ESC
-Trakpower 5400 LiPo. battery

the lipo became a little warm too

and i didnt notice and i plugged in the positive(+) lead into the the negative(-) hole and the negative(-) lead into the positive hole(+)

smoke started coming out of my esc or lipo terminal hole (i forget bcuz i was in a rush to unplug it and run the lipo outside just in case the lipo was ready to blow.

now my esc stinks and idk if i shorted it out........and the leads were in the opposite terminals for probly 1 second until i noticed it

im too scared to plug in the battery and turn on the esc bcuz idk what will happen

sooo....did i short my esc?

please help

thanks