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    • July 22, 2004 at 3:44 pm #10564
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      after charging my dual cell bit, my shell was warming up. afterward, i removed the shell to find that my pcb overheated and had a smell of melted plastic. i didnt gas, reverse, or steer while charging on its 4 AAA charger. So why did it overheat??? thanks…

    • July 22, 2004 at 3:55 pm #30930
      jamiekulhanek
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      did you have it connected the wrong way around??

    • July 22, 2004 at 4:01 pm #30931
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      which ones the wrong way? the charger or the cells?

    • July 22, 2004 at 5:07 pm #30933
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      when you connected the battery pack to the charging plate.

      either that or you left it charging too long…

    • July 22, 2004 at 5:13 pm #30934
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      it only charged for 45 seconds or less and the charging port was connected correctly

    • July 22, 2004 at 5:23 pm #30943
      z-beam
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      so once you stopped charging and separated the car from the charger it worked fine?

    • July 22, 2004 at 9:16 pm #30955
      betty.k
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      with charging connect + to + and – to -. sounds like a short somewhere, check for loose wires or metal touching where it shouldn’t:8ball:

    • July 22, 2004 at 10:16 pm #30949
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      yeh or if u was reving it or any thign board will warm up because 4.8V

    • July 23, 2004 at 11:57 am #30917
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      its working fine now but it still heats up a little while charging…

    • July 23, 2004 at 2:45 pm #30920
      HACHI-RYOKU
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      How did you wire the cells?

    • July 23, 2004 at 2:59 pm #30922
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      its soldered

    • July 23, 2004 at 5:59 pm #30942
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      its official, the pcb board is totaled :angry:, and i didnt even rev it up while charging

      Edited by – Raging RCer on 23 July 2004 13:59:45

    • July 23, 2004 at 6:49 pm #30938
      merc-blue
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      hmm.. the correctly polariesed?

    • July 23, 2004 at 10:31 pm #30895
      z-beam
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      polarized… is english your first language merc?

    • July 23, 2004 at 10:37 pm #30896
      merc-blue
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      nah i learned australia first.. im as white/english as it gets

    • July 24, 2004 at 1:11 am #39578
      HACHI-RYOKU
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      Sounds like something was shorted out or you had a bad battery.

      All Auzzies speak a strange language. I visited a couple times and I always said “huh?”.

    • July 24, 2004 at 1:13 am #30840
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      my point exactly i live in balwyn (its abit snobby) and with my shitty english they think im for coboug or sumthing (no offence to any one form coboug)

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