Here's a simple tip to keep you from frying your ESC when you are using Lipo batteries with inboard plugs. Take it from me, I have burned out 2 ESCs when not paying attention to the polarity Positive and Negative images when using inboard plugs.
Burning up my ESC always happened to me when I have been wrenching on my RC between races and all of the sudden I'm up for racing and I rush to plug in my battery without paying attention to inboard plug polarity.
This can happen very easily because different manufactures have the polarities on different sides as you can see below. Venom and SMC are opposite so if you use both batteries it is easy to make the mistake.
Burning up my ESC always happened to me when I have been wrenching on my RC between races and all of the sudden I'm up for racing and I rush to plug in my battery without paying attention to inboard plug polarity.
This can happen very easily because different manufactures have the polarities on different sides as you can see below. Venom and SMC are opposite so if you use both batteries it is easy to make the mistake.
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The quick YouTube video below shows just how fast an ESC fries when the polarity plugs are wrong!!!
So Here is the Solution !!!! Polarity Stickers !!!
Once I started adding the Mattox Design Polarity Indicators to my batteries, I have never reversed the polarity and fried another ESC... The stickers make it easy to see and make it "almost idiot proof"!!!
Hope this tip helps you!!!!
Hope this tip helps you!!!!
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