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All that shade thrown at Hobbywing, but the Castles are the one's blowing up.

A man of his words right here and very very respectable. If i was your customer, I would be forever your customer. Owning up to your mistakes and being honest goes a loooooong way. You've earned someone's trust forever. We need more people like you in this world.

I don't think braking caused this. People run the kraton on 8s with big gears, big tires and the same power. The esc was defective IMO.

Aint there a temperature cut off on that xlx2? Even with a monster car like that it should have cut off before it self-destruct, even from braking.

My Outcast 8s EXB with the exact same system in it, fully loaded weighs 30lbs. I'm definitely not easy on the brakes, and the truck is geared high enough that it's hit 65mph. I think the issue here is a combination of belt resistance and a defective ESC.

Super interesting Raz! That beast can only have the best gear and as you pointed out a separate disc braking unit is a must. Can’t wait to see the next instalment!👍🏻

kevin talbot showed that the XLX 2 started on fire twice in his videos.

It’s a pleasure to watch and learn. Thank you!

Picked up my first above 1/10th tonight. A Limitless. Your a good influence ;). Been enjoying R/C since late 1980s. Does not make me an expert. But I know there will be trials and setbacks along the way. Let the butt kicking commence LOL!

Raz that’s a awesome build buddy. Can’t wait too see the full run. 👊🏽💯

Honesty goes a long way! Nice Video Raz 🤘

Such a clean build like all your builds!

That thing looks amazing! I need one of those.

Been waiting for someone to do this! Awesome mate thankyou love your work , castle are the new novak

A lovely build that , shame about the ESC woofing up in smoke, but great seeing you take it on the Chin and replace the faulty unit 👌

Love your videos man, it's nice seeing what is possible with this hobby when you lay down serious pennies. Also what a community, must be awesome having a load of likeminded guys to enjoy the hobby with :)

I watch all your videos. I like to learn from people that know what they're doing. Plus great content does not hurt.

Really want to see a pt2 to this and thank you for another great video

Nice Video and it will help as I just starting out and knowing is everything, Thanks man!

Great video man!

That car is huge man. Very cool!!

Dope build bro I’d love to see that car with an mgm 12s controller. The 800amp one would be dope. Awsome video

Oh man that could have been so much worse. Good thing you guys caught it quickly. Glad you did this vid Raz, it's a learning experience for us all. 🙏🏾

Great build Raz!! Very informative and resourceful. I have yet to add a 1/5 rig to my collection. I'm not sure which I want to invest in as far as either 1/5 gas or electric. Currently leaning towards gas but what would you suggest?

Hello Raz, Great video! I am running a Kraken KV5TT on 15S with a MGM setup. With MaxAmp batteries and no brakes either. I know this is not a cheep setup but it’s never net me down and although I try to not bash too hard I can’t help but to keep the throttle wide-open as long as the tires will take it 😊. Look forward to your next video.

Thanks for the video I never took into account the braking on my baja 5b guess I'm gonna get that on there before running it also can you turn the braking feature off on the xlx2???

If you pretin the wire and the pre-fill the cavity in the connector with solder before you saw them together you spend a lot of less time at once putting heat into the connector making it much less likely to deform or melt it. I don't know if that's normally a problem with the QS8 connector but an xt90 would definitely start melting if heat was held on it that long at once.

Very nice car my friend 👍

Aww man! That was a beautiful build! I want to try the castle systems, but I’ve been skeptical. Bcuz I seen them burn up. Is that normal?

i considered an xlx2 for one build and passed it up as i didnt want to see £2k+ rig go up in flames then thought they may have fixed the problem so started to consider it again for another build this puts me off.

Kevin! Sick build and vid bro!💯 Gotta add this to the collection

Love the content. And info. Thankyou 😊

I'm actually a little scared of these Castle "smoke systems" now:-) Anyway, thanks a bunch!

Ohhh damn 👀. Always sorry to see smoke. Props to you for standing behind your builds, regardless of what actually went wrong. That Big Girl must be smooth as silk belt driven and sensored. 🍻

thanks for your honesty mate and like the rest of us you live and you learn

I going in interested every video that you made . and im learning alot . keepit up 👍🏻

100% respect to you for fixing it for free and for sharing the info

I hope Castle gets in touch with you. Thanks for posting!

Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us Raz 💯👍💯🍻

Can you run different sizes pinions on it? Or is it fixed like the first line of Arrma granites?

Love your vlog watch it all the time a new video comes out

First time seeing your channel. You seem like a good dude. 👍

Welcome to 5th scale bro, love the content

Raz your builds make me feel terrible about mine lmao! Your the best, thanks

I had this exact same thing happen to my Kraton 1/5 EXB with that same setup, castle warrantied the esc and I’ve had no issues since. I believe it was one out of the “old batch” and no fault of yours

It’s either a bad ESC or wire connection between the ESC and the batteries. If anything between the two aren’t super tight beforehand and come loss during bashing sparks or fire can start at that connection point.

That is one crazy bad ass car!!

My money is on it being a bad ESC, just out of curiosity did you check the batch number ? was it one of the early batch ESC's

Must have been bad luck on the ESC. I recently converted my FG marder to 4WD and swapped the MAX5 for a XLX2. Running 8S with a SSS 5694-1000KV, so basically the same setup. It's geared a little lower at 16/46 and 20*/48, but slightly larger wheels. Ran 8 packs so far, mostly parkinglot drifting and never seen more than 120A peaks in the logs. It's heavy but when you're not hitting 100+mph it's shouldn't be pulling high enough amps to destroy it during braking.

That car was very agile for its size … hope to see it going again even better than first time .. got faith in you 👍👍👍

I'm a new fan to to your Channel and you did such nice clean work with this car

From my personal experience with motor drivers and controllers I believe something called back emf killed your esc basically when braking the esc cannot handle the high voltage and current flowing in the opposite direction from the motor back to the esc. obviously when braking the motor is working like a generator and due to the weight and inertia of this car it was to much for the esc to handle which by the looks of things has fried the diode in one of the mosfets and caused a shoot through on one of the half bridges giving you a dead short and obviously some flames, as a solution potentially adding a capacitor bank in parallel with the esc after the battery might prevent this from happening again you need a buffer between the batteries and esc especially when the batteries are fully charged make sure you use some pretty high voltage capacitors to handle the high voltage spikes

I did not understand your explanation with the breaks causing this! Could it be possible that it was the ESC? There were a bunch of xlx2s that caught fire in a similar fashion as this one! Also, I have seen 1:5 scale rcs with this combo and no breaks and they did just fine!

why no BEC? i ran my FG with similar set up but put a BEC on it

You talk like a collage history teacher....✌🏼😁

Dang! I love the smoke when you guned it! Definitely ran a lot of power through that sucker.

It seems like most of the esc fires are happening on brand new speed controllers. I'm looking at using one of these motors/esc combos on a vintage 3 wheeler. (Geared to about 25mph) but after seeing this i'm thinking about trying something else.

what do you mean with the hobbywing esc giving less top speed? it's the batteries that decide how fast you will go, the motor pulls power, the esc does not push power. if settings are maxed out there is 100% of the batteries power going to the motor, there cant be 120% of the power going to the motor just because you have your favorite on off switch.

Awesome video raz

OMG that's freaking quick for it's weight! And are those tire smokes? Sick!

Hi Raz 🖐️🥰. Nice Clean build from you as always 💪 If my calculations are not totally off, then there was nothing wrong with your setup and gearing if top end is of about 50mph. 💪 Also I am quite 100% positive that the brake rate/gearing/weight of the car should not have exceed any of the known limitations of the XLX2. Not even close. The binding drivetrain isn't helping but what is it compared to any off road rolling resident? Just bad luck and bad ESC? Don't blame me but I personally wouldn't change anything except freeing up the drivetrain and give it another go. 😘😘😘

Very cool car Razz! Too bad about the flame up , part of it I guess ! I just fried another 1717 🤣 going back to castle

hey Raz..... so what happened by reducing to 50% power was it still quick or slower....show a folllow up please

I have the same care but I bought the gas version and converted it to electric full castle setup I did have the lehner 3080 n mgm 400a pro but was having some issue's

i don't get it... i have the exact same setup in my DBXL that is closer to 34lbs and have never had this issue... you sure those batteries C rating can handle that much current?

The issue, which you mentioned, was the resistance. Im currently running the same exact car with an xlx2 and a TP5660. PB has been 114mph (yes, I have video). But Im very very very familiar with FG (owning 6 of them) and know how to go about building them. And that belt resistance is a killer. I bench rolled it until it rolled more freely and took some of the tension from the tensioner under the case. Also, Im not running mechanical brakes even though my model came with them.

That car is incredible😱😱😱😱😱 Was it literally smoking the tyres all the time 👌🏻 Love the video, and explanation Raz 👍

Very informative video, I love the FG stuff they are tough as nails but they make em outta Depleted Uranium🤣

Did you ever figure out if this was one of the recalled xlx2? I have the same setup.in my kraton 8s and it scared the hell out of me at first.

Hello, thanks for the useful info.. Iam currently doing a Nitro to EP conversion of a 1/7 scale HSP camelry with Hobbywing Max8 combo. Car is almost ready. I would really appreciate if you could provide any form of advice before I fire up for its maiden run. Thanking you in advance for your reply.

The problem is on the esc. castle creations 8s esc is defective. I had mine burn as well unfortunately.

hey raz, nice video, can you tell me where you have the Vegas clip from? I wanna see more of those.

Thank you!!!!!!

Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work would love to get my hands on one of these beast 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

Who makes the chassis? I must have missed it amongst the crazy music.

Why don't you run thermalpaste in between the motor and it's plate?

Now I want some 1:5 scale GRP tires!

That was crazy I couldn't believe it went up in smoke Your gambling theory was pretty interesting 😁 What a awesome RC 🔥👍✌️

back in the early day's of 1/8th brushless it was said by some in the industry the brakes where causing alot of the failures in ESC's.

That a really sweet car wow. Thanks for sending it yeeeyee. Interesting first chassis in a while that has the motor mounted horizontaly. Holy shit it smoked the tires in a highspeed drift.oh no that was electric smoke?? Nooo

That was just crazy,an amazing car and build

Qahr type of chassis are those

Hey Razz are going to be having more of your perfect pass launch control?

Cool video.... I'm not into rc but really interesting nonetheless

The fact he has *Recruiting Agency* on the roof is absolutely hilarious

My SBR 2.0 is 25lbs.+ stock everything and brakes hard and drives hard on 8S 55-60MPH and I hit that fairly often. The stock motor is 750kv I believe which is quite a bit lower speed than the 1100kv you installed. Makes sense though I supposed why that burned up so fast + gearing is probably crazy on that BMW. What scale is that thing?

Dude that car is awesome

I have a fg 530 Porsche edition running a castle xlx2 esc as well as a 1050 leopard kv motor with 26/38 gearing and running 81 mph on 8s. My brakes are not at 100% on the esc more like 75%. I don’t know what castle motor you were using….but for some reason…that esc doesn’t like the 1100kv motors. The leopard even though it is a 1050kv has a lower amp rating than the castle 1100kv. I’ve yet to have any problems out of mine, and the fg is a beautiful and fun car for how big it is.

i love fg your work is awesome

Also something else to keep in mind, if you're running sensored, if you have to reverse direction of motor it hast to be done within castle link and not by switching motor wires. This was the first thing I actually thought about when I watched this. Also you could consider just not running it sensored at all.

and what is it for this car?

Has nothing to do with brakes. The FG is a baby compared to MCD. The esc was defective, luckily no one got hurt. There is a guy here in Maryland that hit 149mph with the FG running XLX2 and TP motor. Good content as always man

Hi brother where can I get them 1/5th scale grp wheels from ?

Thanks Raz. Miss ya buddy

I wonder if this "tire smoke" wasn't actually tire smoke

Raz do you have a financial reason not to blame the xlx2 for these fires or do you really think that the chance you take puting one in is worth it because they are that much better than say a max 4? No disrespect just a honest question.

Stick a max4 combo in it and do the same ? ( if you are willing to risk the money) it will be interesting to see if it will hold up or not

hi how much a build like that would cost me... I want it rtr such as that one.

💪🏽🇬🇧💪🏽 will be ordering one of these 100%