Biggest piece of Crap ESC's ever..........Fightercat

[FighterCat57]

Sorry... I couldn't resist;

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Carl S***k <*******> wrote:
Hi Ben, got the 8s 300a, looks real beefy, does it have a BEC? It says switching bec on it. I wanna run it today for the first time, thanks!

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[Diegoboy]

It's clear why they both caught fire and clear you don't know what you're doing or what you're talking about.

You are now bitching about a free replacement and a free upgrade to a higher capacity ESC. (your photos show a 16s/320 model. )

You paid for a 16s/200 at a big discount that you begged for and received an 8s/300 upgrade and a 16s/300 upgrade, of which you burned up all of them.

You are bitching at me because you didn't read the instructions... or ask how to program it...

...My guess is that you got the ESCs wet. That's usually when they look like this. Operating an ESC while submerged is a no-no by any manufacturer.

I think that's enough of this, I can understand your frustration, but it's very clearly misplaced.

I'd offer you a refund, or even another controller if you were to learn to read, but honestly you're being a Dick and I just don't tolerate that kind of attitude from anyone.

Carry on.

I wonder if the people reading this thread will get the feeling that if they buy a product, have problems, get called stupid among other things in public.
I think you, as a reseller, should have handled this more professionally. "this" meaning this complaint, not the previous ones.

[FighterCat57]

I wonder if the people reading this thread will get the feeling that if they buy a product, have problems, get called stupid among other things in public.
I think you, as a reseller, should have handled this more professionally. "this" meaning this complaint, not the previous ones.

Danny, this was a personal attack and was responded to as such. Twist it how you want, but it's personal.


You, of all people should be tired of reading product bashing posts by uninformed people. It's bad for the industry and those that serve.

BTW- Not being a Dick is a requirement of membership and terms of service for his purchase. It's not being vulgar. I do apologize if anyone was offended by this reference, but it's corporate policy.

This situation makes me sad and makes me not want to spend my nights and weekends working on product improvement. It makes me really re-think why I've soaked nearly $100k into making new products for the Fast Electric world.

This kind of behavior is unacceptable and needs to stop. The fact that you are siding with a bashing thread makes me wonder why you're a moderator.

Anyway, I've got more programming to do, working on the new data logging in these "biggest piece of crap ESC's ever".



FYI - I've donated 3 new 400a model controllers to the NAMBA nationals in the Name of Carl Schock.

Sorry Carl, it's not a tax deduction, but you can stop claiming this is about money... it's about you, making a personal attack on me, who's been trying to help you despite your 3 month long string of annoying email.

[Diegoboy]

Assume all you want Ben. I took no sides. I simply stated a FACT that your way of dealing with this was unprofessional, weather the reason was warranted or not. Show me where I made any comment supporting one side or the other... You can't!
You are clearly on one side of this complaint and the fact that I refused to support YOUR side makes you feel that I am bias? WRONG.

[Rumdog]

Look out, Ben! Danny's out to get ya again!

[anthonyniel19]

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[domwilson]

I got an idea. How about the OP and Ben take this to the side lines and make another attempt at resolving this? There are some obvious points to be made from both sides. But I do believe that they can arrive at a mutually beneficial solution if they come to some sort of agreement. The question here is are they willing to try to resolve this one more time? Perhaps, Ben can preprogram another ESC and the OP can report back the results?

[TheShaughnessy]

So are those fighter cat esc's going in the raffle? Wouldn't mind winning one.

[RaceMechaniX]

To back Ben here, I have run 5 of his esc's ranging from the small 140A to the largest twin board 400A. Everytime I have used the program box to set-up the esc prior to plugging in. I have pushed his controllers well beyond their limits, but have had ample cooling, good connectors, short wires and no leaks. I have only failed one esc due to my own fault of a small water leak which ended up in a failed esc.

Ben has been very accomodating to most of us and the fact that he does send replacements promptly(even it is a slightly different model) is better than most in this hobby.

Without knowing the whole story and set-up this is just a errant rant.

[keithbradley]

"Canopy flew off and smoke like you wouldn't believe"

Do you mean it came off when you were running? Why?

I have used a number of Fighter Cat ESCs. The 16/300s have worked well for me, I'm actually running a pair of 100A Fighter Cat ESCs in my DF Explorer at over 80mph with no issues.
I have noticed with the FC ESCs that they are very vulnerable to water. Of course you shouldn't get any ESC wet, but I reccomend using corrosion X on them before even running them. They do not have a high resistance to water at all, so getting them just a little wet without the corrosionX can cause problems.

I've had good luck with both oven cleaner, wheel cleaner (acidic), and some other solvents when having an ESC do that in a hull. I had a pretty bad case of the stinky hull myself due to a couple faulty castle 120A HVs last year. Best of luck getting that thing cleaned up Make-a-wake.

Also, I think it's apparent that a couple people have it out for FC (Im not talking about OP, he's obviously mad about his expereince). I actually like Danny and think he is generally a great mod, but he gets very opinionated and biased whenever FC comes up. There seems to be some bad blood there. I'm not sure where it comes from but I think it's obvious to everyone but him.

[keithbradley]

To add, in my experience, it's fairly normal for Ben to upgrade an ESC to a higher model, or give freebies, ect. I actually spoke with him about people running 8s on the 8/300 and my opinion was that it's a little risky and 8s should be ran on a HV controller. I'm fairly certain I told you the same thing in another thread M-a-W. I think Ben just wanted to make sure you didn't have any more problems so he upgraded you to the HV ESC. You two can work things out however you see fit, and I'm not trying to make a case for your ESC being good, bad, or whatever...just saying that I don't think the upgrade was malicious.

[keithbradley]

This stuff will let you wipe the black soot away like it's just dust, really:

http://www.apmengineparts.com/002101.html

Obviously you would want to find it in smaller qty, but it works great if you can't find something else.

[Make-a-Wake]

Well, once again you are incorrect Ben, unless you make a habit of wrapping 300a ESC's in 200a labels. I'll post a picture of it when I get home, how can it be that everything I say is a lie acoording to you, you dont know me and you have no clue of my integrity, my posts on here are very helpful and in a cheerful, positive manner. This type of thread is very unlike me, but enough is enough for folks at some point. I have PM after PM from folks on here asking for my help..........why would they pick me, cuz I help them happily and they are successful with my help.........then they ask me again. I'll post a whole page of them and the members can verify that they are genuine.
These mods and Steven are aware of who I am and have access to all my posts, I have never even had one of them require me to change a post or give me a wrist slap.

Great PR for your "company" when you call folks "Dicks".................what is this, 3rd grade???

I'm curious to see if anyone on this thread besides you thinks I just decided to make a big thread of lies and take time i could be spending with my family.........or boating.

PS - I recieved an email stating something of a refund to me from fightercat, if this is true and it gets to me then I will ask the mods to wipe this thread out completely.

[Make-a-Wake]

"Canopy flew off and smoke like you wouldn't believe"

Do you mean it came off when you were running? Why?

When I run a new ESC I tend to not use my hatch bolts, only the front tongue and a good tape job in case it has to be opened for a "tweak" or reposition, or a more serious issue. All my other boats are ran with the hatchbolts in place.

[Make-a-Wake]

Here's my 70 mph 47" Kevlar mono that has the same 240hv Swordy that i built it with a year ago.