Swordfish 240

[Chrisg81983]

I had a problem with two of them they were nib and ran them a few times each on 8s and they worked flawlessly I soon tried to run them on 10s I hooked up the lipos and 10 motor beeps came from motor so I taped up hatch and put In the water the second I touched the throttle it lit up into flames I tried to figure out what happened so I tried my older 240's with the two cooling plates and they work fine along with my two castle hydra hv200's the setup was a leo5698 910kv on 8 and 10 cell running a x455 for 10s and a x457 on 8s it is all in a df-41 I have some videos of the setup in YouTube but they are not the greatest quality it was hard to drive and record at the same time all while trying to keep control of my boat
Chris g

[drwayne]

I had a problem with two of them they were nib and ran them a few times each on 8s and they worked flawlessly I soon tried to run them on 10s I hooked up the lipos and 10 motor beeps came from motor so I taped up hatch and put In the water the second I touched the throttle it lit up into flames I tried to figure out what happened so I tried my older 240's with the two cooling plates and they work fine along with my two castle hydra hv200's the setup was a leo5698 910kv on 8 and 10 cell running a x455 for 10s and a x457 on 8s it is all in a df-41 I have some videos of the setup in YouTube but they are not the greatest quality it was hard to drive and record at the same time all while trying to keep control of my boat
Chris g

Their newer SF240 do not run the same firmware as my earlier units.
Hifei have released a firmware update 31-12-2011 to cover this issue.

Here is the firmware file... for the NEW single plate cooler model only

Hifei_0HV_240A(B).zip

[drwayne]

BW Won, put down that can of beer .... show pic#1 again... in focus ! Yes, Sir. Okay, this is as focused as she gets- due to the opaque heat-shrink[ATTACH=CONFIG]73923[/ATTACH] And thank you for the Knowledge, in advance.

And what in particular are you gesticulating towards as poor ?

W

[Chrisg81983]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]73924[/ATTACH]Their newer SF240 do not run the same firmware as my earlier units.Hifei have released a firmware update 31-12-2011 to cover this issue.Here is the firmware files...

I had the new firmware in the old ones witch work fine and the two new models were not even a week old I bought one from that motor combo Steve had here on the forum and the other from his site

[srislash]

Does it look like mine?

Looks just like yours as in it appears the solder is joined to the capacitor

[BW won]

So is it the little ring within the glob of solder you are concerned with?

Something like that...the farthest left capacitor lead and how it is different from the farthest right cap lead. It looks to have been re-soldered haphazardly.

[BW won]

And what in particular are you gesticulating towards as poor ?

W

how the solder is connecting the large black capacitor to the smaller (what I assume to be) resistor

[Chrisg81983]

Is is straighht from customer support Hello Mr. Chris Geno*!**Thanks very much for purchasing Swordfish ESC. It is great support and trust to us.We will try our best to well deal with the enquiry of after-sales service. *!***!**At present, we do not recall any Swordfish ESC from market.The new version 240A ESC (which with three water-cooling plates) is produced with the same hardware and software with the old version (which with two water-cooling plates) and same workmanship.Were the two burned 240A ESC the new version, were they both burned once when connect ESC to 10s cell? If you have pictures, would you please send me some of them. Thanks*!**Best regards,MichelleChongqing HIFEI Technology Ltd.www.hifei.comTel:+86 23 68626070Skype: hifei-michelle*!**

[Chrisg81983]

That is the side that blew up on both of mine

[srislash]

Mine does not work with the newer software yet.I'm still on V2.I have V4 for my 200's.

BTW BW won,Mine has been flawless for a year now.It is only out so I can experiment with my Castle Ice and props.

[BW won]

That is the side that blew up on both of mine

do you have the pictures?

[BW won]

Mine does not work with the newer software yet.I'm still on V2.I have V4 for my 200's.

BTW BW won,Mine has been flawless for a year now.It is only out so I can experiment with my Castle Ice and props.

have you run 10s through it?

[srislash]

how the solder is connecting the large black capacitor to the smaller (what I assume to be) resistor

I see it now.Mine is not like that.I knew I bought that jewelers magnifying glas for something.

[Chrisg81983]

I have two older models and two newer ones as well plus a coupple 120's that all work perfect for quite some time now that is what made me buy these two so in general they are great products I don't want anyone to get the wrong idea ant think that they are no good the is is just one problem I had with them in years

[srislash]

have you run 10s through it?

I have only run 6s.I think I would do something with that extra solder.The little brown square thingy is not connected on mine.