Anyone have anything bad to say about the Turnigy 180 Controller?

[vasy]

When I took my ESC to the USPS they said $26 for 7-10 days or $33 for 3 days.

I went with the latter as I have no backup ESC and really want to run my boat soon!

Mars

I see, I was really in no rush :) $8 for 2-3 month by sea
HK is in no rush to ship stuff out anyway.

[vasy]

are you guys using the internal bec?

I went with an external UBEC for $5 from ebay...
Figured the ESC is rated to take it, but if it does not or some issue with it I risk $100 ESC so might as well spend $5 for a cheap insurance.

[mars]

Good Thinking Vasy!

I too will not use the BEC on 6s. I have a bunch of rx packs lying around anyway...

mars

I went with an external UBEC for $5 from ebay...
Figured the ESC is rated to take it, but if it does not or some issue with it I risk $100 ESC so might as well spend $5 for a cheap insurance.

[JMSCARD]

I was using the internal bec on my 180's for awhile.... was using it even on 5s setups..... but after hearing about the bec issues I started using rec. packs..... only issue I ever had with the turnigy 180's is the LVC kicking in wrong... sometimes when I plugged in a fully charged pack it would read it as the wrong "S" pack and would cut off power right after a minute or so.... I generally don't use LVC's though on my esc's because I tend to bring her in the second I notice even a slight bit of less power.... hasn't bit me yet.... and I tend to run my boats for a few minutes and then come in.... still having some capacity left...

[properchopper]

I went with an external UBEC for $5 from ebay...
Figured the ESC is rated to take it, but if it does not or some issue with it I risk $100 ESC so might as well spend $5 for a cheap insurance.

A word of caution about external BEC's. I've had two CC BEC's go screwy and put input voltage out into the rx. Poof goes the Rx!! Mr . Fluid has always advocated Rx battery packs & I respect his knowledge. Just a thought.

[Raydee]

I have seen external BEC's go screwy on the heli's and let 22 volts shoot through EVERYTHING...total mess and loss. On the flip side I think my CC BEC MIGHT have saved my CC240 controller today. I will know for sure in a few days. I only use the CC bec if I am using 4s or lower. On my 6s boats I only use a receiver battery.