ldharris84
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Let me tell a little story about a group of us who had a build party last month after one of our club members, who is into combat, got us hooked on Bloody Barons. I purchased a Bloody Baron and FT Power Pack C Radial v2 and decided, as did the others, to build them last month as a build party. We had planned on making two. Well, things went differently for two of us. After the power box was built, I hooked up one of my AR410 Spektrum receivers, and nothing would turn on. Nothing happened. There were no lights on the receiver, but we got a beep from the ESC, so I figured it may have been a defective receiver, so I tried my other receiver with the same results. Nothing indicated what the actual problem could have been, just that there wasn't anything working when the battery was plugged into the ESC. One of the other builders said he had another receiver in his bag we could try, an AR620. It, too, didn't turn on, so three receivers were defective. Or so we thought.
We then said we knew the AR620 in his Bloody Baron was working. Let us try that one. When we plugged it into the battery, it didn't work (now the fourth receiver wasn't working), and since he was installing it into his plane, the attached servo started to smoke. We unplugged and knew something was wrong with the ESC purchased as part of the Power Pack. The ESC killed four receivers, 2 Spektrum 410 receivers, 2 Spektrum 620 receivers, and one servo because the BEC was not limiting the voltage to the receiver. It let all of the 4S battery volts straight through to the receiver. We would have never checked the output with a multimeter if not for the smoking servo. When we checked it with the multimeter, the ESC put out over 16v to the receiver. Fried it, and again, we could only determine what was going on because the last receiver was known to be working and had a servo attached that started smoking.
I sent the ESC back to Flite Test and one of the four receivers back to Flite Test, and they, too, verified that the ESC was the culprit (which we already knew based on the volts coming through), and the Flite Test team said that they had never seen one of these do this before. The Flite Test team is only willing to replace a single receiver. However, I'm still out 140 dollars as I paid my friend 100 dollars to replace his two fried receivers because of the defective ESC purchased from Flite Test. Because that was the right thing for me to do, my friend shouldn't be out 100 bucks due to a bad ESC. I'm not worrying about them replacing a blown servo, as that's a small price compared to the total of 3 receivers we lost that day, as Flite Test is only willing to reimburse us for one of the receivers. I had hoped Flite Test would do the right thing as I did for my friend and take care of this issue. This issue wasn't anything I did wrong, but due to a faulty product. I don't like to call out organizations or companies in public forums publically, and this is my first time doing this, but after the rep stopped replying after my last question about possibly throwing in some kits to make me whole) and no return acknowledgment from the president (I reached out via DM on Facebook and LinkedIn). This post was my last option.
We then said we knew the AR620 in his Bloody Baron was working. Let us try that one. When we plugged it into the battery, it didn't work (now the fourth receiver wasn't working), and since he was installing it into his plane, the attached servo started to smoke. We unplugged and knew something was wrong with the ESC purchased as part of the Power Pack. The ESC killed four receivers, 2 Spektrum 410 receivers, 2 Spektrum 620 receivers, and one servo because the BEC was not limiting the voltage to the receiver. It let all of the 4S battery volts straight through to the receiver. We would have never checked the output with a multimeter if not for the smoking servo. When we checked it with the multimeter, the ESC put out over 16v to the receiver. Fried it, and again, we could only determine what was going on because the last receiver was known to be working and had a servo attached that started smoking.
I sent the ESC back to Flite Test and one of the four receivers back to Flite Test, and they, too, verified that the ESC was the culprit (which we already knew based on the volts coming through), and the Flite Test team said that they had never seen one of these do this before. The Flite Test team is only willing to replace a single receiver. However, I'm still out 140 dollars as I paid my friend 100 dollars to replace his two fried receivers because of the defective ESC purchased from Flite Test. Because that was the right thing for me to do, my friend shouldn't be out 100 bucks due to a bad ESC. I'm not worrying about them replacing a blown servo, as that's a small price compared to the total of 3 receivers we lost that day, as Flite Test is only willing to reimburse us for one of the receivers. I had hoped Flite Test would do the right thing as I did for my friend and take care of this issue. This issue wasn't anything I did wrong, but due to a faulty product. I don't like to call out organizations or companies in public forums publically, and this is my first time doing this, but after the rep stopped replying after my last question about possibly throwing in some kits to make me whole) and no return acknowledgment from the president (I reached out via DM on Facebook and LinkedIn). This post was my last option.
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