Bad Turnigy 3s ??

[Brushless55]

That's awesome!

Well it went dead in the water?
not sure of its temp because it took me a couple minutes to get it back to shore and I did not have my temp gun on me, but it was hot to the touch
brought it home and it did not want to turn over, now with some fiddling it runs, makes a squeal and gets hot?

[crabstick]

hmm sounds all bad dude, I would pull it to bits and have a looksee, the magnets may have imploded.

here's the how to from OSE


http://www.offshoreelectrics.com/inf...ao-bearing.php

[Team FFRB]

8Xl

That's awesome!

Well it went dead in the water?
not sure of its temp because it took me a couple minutes to get it back to shore and I did not have my temp gun on me, but it was hot to the touch
brought it home and it did not want to turn over, now with some fiddling it runs, makes a squeal and gets hot?

Might be that the rotor magnet is slipping on the motor shaft? This has happened to me with a 10Xl.

Once fixed it was fine.

Also while can was open I replaced bearings both end with new one's from OSE.

[Brushless55]

I did pull it apart the day I had the issue, and it looked ok..

[Brushless55]

Might be that the rotor magnet is slipping on the motor shaft? This has happened to me with a 10Xl.

Once fixed it was fine.

Also while can was open I replaced bearings both end with new one's from OSE.

How did ya fix it?

[BakedMopar]

I have the same batteries. I have had that problem with one of them. I heard a pop but I still have voltage, just one cell is about a half volt off. I balanced them ( took almost a whole day ) but have not used them since.

[reaper racing]

we had the same problem with these same packs ran as 2x3s packs with a 6xl. the thing screamed till the tab on the battery broke. fixed it by simply soldering wire across the packs instead of repairing the tab

[Rumdog]

^XL on 6s? Thats your problem right there!

[Rumdog]

6xl*

[Brushless55]

Ya! I to want to run my 6XL Revo on 6s..
Ok looks like I'm cutting into the pack.
Any one know where I can buy new shrink wrap?

[reaper racing]

yeah ran a 6xl on 3s2p so 6 cells. was a bullet. very hot setup made the sv 27 into a dart lol. i went to charge another of my 3s turnigy packs today and the charger couldnt connect. sure enough on closer inspection one of the tabs had broken. not the fault of the battery, i accidently dropped this battery and the shock of it hitting the ground prob broke it

[sailr]

Maybe the true verdict of the cheap chinese batteries is finally coming to pass.

[DISAR]

I read that many people here are happy with the Turnigy and Zippy Flightmax. I was too during the first runs, but now I will never buy them again. Had same problems in one 3s and one 5s Zippys (one cell dead) with no apparent reason, had also two 6s (One Zippy one Turnigy) swallen from water immersion. I had the 6s Turnigy together and parallel with a 6s Flightpower immersed, the Turnigy is useless (swallen) but the Flightpower perfect.
I also had another situation where I had a Rhino and a Zippy with same specs (3s, 25C, 4900) running in series, the Zippy is useless now (swallen) but the Rhino is fine.

[sundog]

Ya! I to want to run my 6XL Revo on 6s..
Ok looks like I'm cutting into the pack.
Any one know where I can buy new shrink wrap?

Before you unwrap that lipo, get some of the alum solder and paste. You won't be able to solder the tabs (you can bet that is what happened) with regular solder - it will just bead up. I know this from experience. I have had three different lipos - 3 different manufacturers do this. It is caused by pulling on the leads - either the balance leads or the power cables when taking them out of the boat. Don't do this!! They feel tough and secure, but once you take one apart, you will see how fragile they really are. I am now saving my (bad) cells and will one day buy the aluminim solder/paste and repair them. I've seen it for sale, but don't remember where it was. Sdg.

[sailr]

The problem with cheap lipos as with everything else being sold direct out of china is that they buy from the cheapest source each time. So you might get good quality for a while until they run out of stock and then instead of going back to the same manufacturer again, they go looking for the cheapest source. Then when they get the new stock back in, it's crap. Lack of consistency of quality has always been the biggest problem with chinese products.