I've had two castle creations bec's just fail when I plug them into a three cell lipo. I need one for an 8 cell airboat. I link up (two) three cell packs and (one) two cell pack for a total of 8 cells. I have the black wire of the bec tapping into the "Free" ground wire of the "8" cell pack. The positive wire goes to the postive of the three cell pack. I've been using the bec for a while now with this set up and no propblems. Then one day I have the free ground hooked up to the black wire on the esc and I then plugged the bec in, the black wire first, then the red wire.(like I always do) When I plugged in the red wire, I heard a loud spark and I smelled the burnt smell. The green light doesn't turn on nor does it power my radio. It does however, make the faint buzzing noise when plugged in. And when I plug it into the castle link it gets really hot. (the link) This didn't just happen once, it happened twice now. I used polarizied connectors and I triple checked all the connections BEFORE I connected them. I've already called Castle Creations about it and they said to send it in for repair. I have no problem with that. But I don't think these should be frying randomly opon connection. That doesn't seem like a quality product if you ask me. I really don't want to buy a third one, because I'll be really mad if that one fails also. Now I have to wait even longer for the record breaking speed run with this:
Have you had this kind of thing happend before?
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