That's been my experience with nano's in general as well.

Nanos are absolute junk. They didnt last me more then 2 months before puffing the casing apart. I am a power hungry trigger happy freak though. And yes they where balanced all the time.

Well this sucks. Got everything hooked up and went to set the forward, neutral, and brake trigger and after I set it the esc started smoking. Turned it off then turned it back on and the motor spun for a split second and then nothing. The fan stopped working as well and the esc gets warm. Guess I have to send it back to hobby wing now. At least I got to see the driveline move for a split second!!!

. The pin that keeps the Hex hub from spinning is probably broken,

Dam, that sucks... What HW ESC?? All the wires were solder to correct locations?? A-A, B-B & C-C

Once it starts to smoke it's done, would not try to turn it on again, or might risk messing up something else. Sounds like a short in the system somewhere.

I agree, and that was my experience with them too. They are good for a month or two and then they go downhill quick.... I just bought two Trinity Sting 7200mah pack. They better be good for 270$! Lol

They are trust me! Just do the whole break in thing, balance, drive for about 5min, balance, drive for about 5 min, repeat a couple more times. This may not be needed but that's how I always do my battery's. never really let them get below 3.8v per cell for the first few runs. They seem to last longer with no problems, no bad cells, no puffing etc. this might be something you know, or do, or just think I'm crazy lol!!

I see two stragegies with batteries. Buy good ones and baby them: Do all the break in stuff, set a high cutoff, set to a storage charge after every race etc. Or buy cheap ones and just rag them out and replace often.

I will try that. I have never tried breaking in a battery so why not. I do know that t
he HW SCT pro/4700 will eat all but the most stout batteries. Since they are trinity packs I am confident that they will be great!

I have a couple SMC 7200 packs I absolutely love. However I have actually put about 30 cycles through one of those Amain 30c 5000 Eco Power packs in my SCT410 with zero issues. No puffing, no power fade, nothing. I guess they are either really good/cheap packs or I am just lucky. I run the HW SCT Pro ESC and HW 4700.

120a v2.1

Yes, I double checked all the wires before turning everything on. And even after I saw smoke before turning it back on.

Only reason I tried turning it back on is because I thought it was just the fan that smoked since it stopped working at the same time

Protek packs.

I run these packs only and if there is a problem with them they will replace it free of charge within 90 days.

Well I pulled the trigger and bought this truck and am stoked to start building it and racing a new class Most all the guys that race these vehicles run 2 cell and 4600 kv motors. They are always coming off complaining how hot their motors get and how their puffing batteries and such. The track is a small indoor clay/dirt mix with med. traction. So I was thinking of running a takin RX8 gen2 with a 3000 kv pro 4 hd on 3 cell and wanted to know if this would be the way to go to keep thing running cool and still have the power to try and beat these guys My local track does not regulate cell count. Any advise would be great and hope to one day be able to give constructive tuning input for this tread.

If I had no regulated cell count, then I would go 4S with a 3674 can, maybe something between 2200kV to 2600kV, then have all the power I needed and could easily run a 15 min main with a 3300mAh pack to boot

I've been running this pack with a 3674-1900kV Tacon in my Hyper 10TT and it never breaks a sweat with well over 20 min run times:
http://www.valuehobby.com/power-syst...300mah-4s.html