r/RedCat_Ascent18

Pretty happy with how this body turned out. Considering it’s my first attempt at painting an RC body.

Build info:

• Injora - body, shocks, brass links, tires, inserts, and brass rings
• no name wheels from Amazon

Redcat ascent 18 build. I posted in here about a cogging issue a few days ago, and I’ve come out this afternoon to try and tune it out.
Plugged in the battery, which was fully charged and is brand new, it’s only been cycled once. Switched on the esc, it gave 3 beeps, as it always does. I switched on my transmitter, it beeped again, I turned the steering a few times, tried to go forward, it didn’t move, i checked reverse, which worked, went to go forward again and it “popped”quite loudly, crackled a few times then literally burst into flames, I quickly popped the body off to disconnect the battery but too late, all the connections had melted off.

Can anyone tell me why? It’s been fine, obviously, until now. I’ve run it probably 10 times, mostly at home tuning, once out on the rocks, always on those ace power 3s batteries in the photo, I’ve never noticed anything get hot, no weird “hot” or burning smells, it’s been fine. I can not work out why this has happened, and I’m pretty pissed off to be honest. Months of waiting for parts, the money I’ve poured into it, the time to build it, and now it’s gone and done this?

Is it a furitek thing, or have I done something I shouldn’t have done? Or is it the battery?

Any advice would be appreciated guys, thanks.

But I forgot about it cause.. well just look at her.. she got that angle to mangle 😈

Has anyone else tried this and made it work? The amount of flex is ridiculous, but almost impractical. Relocated the battery tray and mounted the rear shocks to one set of those holes. ~3" of articulation, stock shocks.