The stock "ExceedRC" generic ESC in the Cubby is a POS... The first one burned out after a few flights while tuning Cubby up on the bench (see below, Feb 24, 2011). Nitroplanes sent me a new one, and it arrived yesterday. They provided great customer service for this issue, but I wonder what they will do now. I had a bad feeling about the stock ESC and had purchased a ExceedRC Proton 30A ESC from hobbypartz in anticipation of this failure... And it did fail. Here's the vid:
I plugged it in and it got hot fast... I unplugged it, and got Aidan to video a second try in case something exciting happened. It just got wicked hot and started to smell, so I unplugged it before it burst into flames. These are bad ESCs.
Looking forward to flying her tomorrow! Wonder if the gyro, dual rates and more confidence will come together for a great flying day? Up late charging her batteries... never sleep on a charging LiPo.
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