Murphy Strikes Back

I've been completely unimpressed with HGLRC products. I've bought 3, 3 failed, and they will not stand behind their products. Never again for me...
 
The really frustrating part of this stack (HGLRC XJB F438) was that when I first got it from RDQ and wired up all but the motors, I found that the VTX was DOA. I contacted RDQ about it and they promptly refunded me for the whole stack due to not having any more in stock and told me to keep the stack (This was the best part of this experience). I put that money towards the Gecko 3 frame, had a Mach 2 VTX gifted to me and bought the motors, figuring to use the rest of the stack. Not sure but it might have contributed to two new motors, both on the side the blew, smoke.

I fought with the decision to buy a replacement ESC board for a bit. Another thing I disliked is that the ESC board is larger than the rest of the stack, which made putting it on just any 3" frame difficult and likely need to rotate it and decided to start over and ordered a DYS mini F4 stack. This seems to come needing only the FPV and motors soldered on and off you go.
 
--Oz-- said:
little late, but look up smoke stopper, a couple bucks to make and would of saved you this mess.
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I am going to toss mine, the fire happened after I went full power. I learned a valuable lesson with it though, I check my connections many times over, go out to the garage to test, have nothing else on the frame aside from the esc board/motors and plug in just enough for a solid connection so it's nothing to disconnect quickly if needed.
 
What kind of smoke-stopper are you using? Hope it's not one of those RDQ units from BengineeringLabs, they're crap.
 
RENOV8R said:
What kind of smoke-stopper are you using? Hope it's not one of those RDQ units from BengineeringLabs, they're crap.
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Ummm....well....It wouldn’t be inaccurate to assume that I couldn’t exactly not say that it is or isn’t almost partially incorrect.

Oh, on the contrary. I'm possibly more or less not definitely rejecting the idea that in no way with any amount of uncertainty that I undeniably...
 
Torc the Sinister said:
Forgive my ignorance. What should happen is there was an issue when using it?
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If you are referring to the Bengineering unit, the issue is that it operates by a fuse instead of the principle of the current going through the filaments of the bulb. It takes a split second for the voltage to trip the fuse, and by that time all your components are fried.
 
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