Castle Creations BEC failure x2

[BHChieftain]

YikesI have my brand new CC240 and castle BEC all set up and ready to start running next week but now I'm afraid to toss it in the water! Is there anyone out there who owns a CC BEC that DIDN'T fail?!?!

I was going to ask the same question... I have a 240 Hydra ESC running with a 4S1P setup with an external CC BEC (using main power packs as power source). So far so good... I have about 8-10 runs on it so far.

Would like to hear others who have not had a problem before I rip it out...



-Chief

[tiletony]

you have to remember most of the problems with castle stuff is the LV, whis is good up to 6s(that is what castle says) but it seems like when you runn 6s that is when the problems happen...just run 4 or 5s...4s to be safe should be ok..i have went through abour 5 hydras in the past yr or so..i like them for the programing but my etti has never failed me

[FighterCat57]

I have a CC240lv that hasn't failed yet!

Although, I've only done the software upgrade and calibrated it on the bench. Haven't hit the water with yet yet. Will let ya know.

PS- I have 4 V3 MMM's that are all using the BEC on 4s or 6s and doing well. But that's not the Hydra, so really don't know how useful that info is.
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[andym]

I run only 240lv on my 4s set ups and they have been very robust, I do use an rx battery and only on 4s but some of my set ups have had amp draw over 200 with no problems.

[Jeff Wohlt]

Does anything good come out of Kansas...LOL. Well Toto ended up here splattered on a building 40 years ago....LOL. Damn Jayhawks. where is CCs QC? I think that is pitiful.

Happy Saturday and Memorial weekend!

[FighterCat57]

I have a CC240lv that hasn't failed yet!

Although, I've only done the software upgrade and calibrated it on the bench. Haven't hit the water with yet yet. Will let ya know.

PS- I have 4 V3 MMM's that are all using the BEC on 4s or 6s and doing well. But that's not the Hydra, so really don't know how useful that info is.

Well, it made it for about 20 min on 3s. No trouble yet.

Have a UBEC on order... till then will stick with 3s/BEC.

Hmmm. I wonder how you turn the BEC off? I didn't see that as an option in the software... curious.
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[video200]

been running my 240LV for 2 years now without a problem in a drifter S on 4s.
might add that it was a replacement for the first 240LV that blew up in the same boat but on 5S

[BHChieftain]

I was going to ask the same question... I have a 240 Hydra ESC running with a 4S1P setup with an external CC BEC (using main power packs as power source). So far so good... I have about 8-10 runs on it so far.

Would like to hear others who have not had a problem before I rip it out...



-Chief

I wanted to clarify that I'm talking about the CC UBEC, not the BEC that is internal to the CC Hydra ESC (which, on my 240A is limited to only 3S...)

-Chief