scott037
Newbie
Well I have a newer castle bec and it died for no good reason other than I left my battery plugged in for to the 3s Battery for 2 or so hours. It also fried my rx.. kinda pissed
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Castle creations 10 amp bec died
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WHITE-TRASH
I wanna be Dave
You should be pissed at yourself for leaving the battery plugged in.
Waitwhatsthat?
Quarry Creeper
That shouldn't matter. I typically do 3 hour runs on 3s with mine. I'm guessing the voltage setting was wrong since it fried the reciever. There's other threads about the voltage calibration sometimes being off.
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WHITE-TRASH
I wanna be Dave
Electronics do strange things when left turned on with no input. This is just another example as to why you should always unplug your battery. I wonder how it liked being discharged by a device with no lvc.
scott037
Newbie
Had it set at 6 volt. The strange thing was it all worked for a second but as soon as I hit the steering done.
rngrchad
Rock Crawler
I smoked a HH BLE as a result of a CC BEC shorting itself out from a set of frayed wires beneath the blue shrink wrap a few days ago. Thank god for priority express shipping and JRH getting it to the mailman ontimr. Kinda bummed but shit happens.. like stated unplug your stuff when not in use. Soon as jrh gets a 4s compatible servo im gonna snatch one up so I can Ditch the bec(not that I've had problems but it'd be nice to clean up.that bit of wiring)
meatmonkey
I wanna be Dave
Yeah, leaving stuff plugged in with no radio signal is a bad idea.
That said, I try to limit myself to 2s packs so I can hardwire the servo straight to the ESC's battery wires and eliminate the BEC because I've had so many Castle BEC's fail. The rate is something like 8 out of 10 have died in the last 6 or so years I've been running them. Only trucks that I feel the "need" to run 3s on get BEC's, the rest get "high voltage" servos.
At some point you'd think I'd smarten up and spend the extra on the "pro" BEC, right?
That said, I try to limit myself to 2s packs so I can hardwire the servo straight to the ESC's battery wires and eliminate the BEC because I've had so many Castle BEC's fail. The rate is something like 8 out of 10 have died in the last 6 or so years I've been running them. Only trucks that I feel the "need" to run 3s on get BEC's, the rest get "high voltage" servos.
At some point you'd think I'd smarten up and spend the extra on the "pro" BEC, right?
limegalodon
Rock Stacker
Mine went dead in 3 months. It doesn't even work any more. Still having brown outs.
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