ESC Burned

[Gabyracing]

Hello
I tried as crontol end speed and all burn or catch on fire today burned an ice hydra 240-6 cells 42mm prop in a mean machine that I recommend to not keep spending so much money thanks in advance Gaby

[Rumdog]

What?

[rc2266]

[m4a1usr]

He's posting a warning about not using the Hydra ICE 240. He was using 6S in a smaller hull, Mean Machine, with a 42mm prop. Certainly not a system that should smoke that ESC. His last comment about dont bother using an expensive ESC was his way of offering advice.

Sorry to hear about the fire Gaby. There have some others posting the same concern about the Hydra ICE ESC. I seem to remember there was an issue with the controller not having the right caps installed.

John

[detox]

6s1p or 6s2p? What lipo batteries were used? Weak lipos will kill esc. Along with lots of stop and go driving will cause large amp spikes.

[Rumdog]

Yeah, and what motr?

[Gabyracing]

Turnigy 5000mah 6s1p long pack and the motor a leopard 4072 1400

[detox]

Was the LVC (low voltage cutoff) set correctly?

[detox]

The single 6s1p Turdigy battery was probably not enough output. I would have used 6s2p.

[Gabyracing]

I tried a shulze and i dont now how motor to put to this esc

[Accordnut]

I will help explain I was with Gaby when He was using a hydra ice 240, 8mm bullets,2 turnigy 5000mah 30c 6s long pack in parallel, leopard 4074 1400kv, prop was 5b12x42 , mean machine hull and lvc was 3.2v.

[Gabyracing]

I need some help plis

[keithbradley]

Check the capacitors on the ESC, some were mistakingly equipped with low voltage caps from what I understand. I haven't ran the hydra Ice but I have ran a few of the regular ICE controllers and have put them through hell. The air ones are very dependable for me!