jtboogie
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Got my mini summit from Tower today. charged up the batteries hooked them up to the truck using the parrallel connector for longer run time. Took it outside just putted around at half throttle for a while. Then decided to start doing some full throttle action and after about 2 minutes it seemed like the truck was jumping out of gear when i would do a sharp turn in loose gravel you know just kind of whipping the rear end around quick and sliding to a stop having fun. Well then about a minute later the truck wouldn't do anything. Thought it might have went into thermal protection mode because the motor was hot. Turned the esc off. Didn't have a temp gun on me so I'm not exsact on the temp, however I did install a heatsink that sits on top of the motor. Took the heat sink off thinking that buying the cheap 7 dollar one from The Toyz.com actually was a bad idea and some how didn't let the motor breathe. Turned the esc back on and only half power, actually not even it maybe has 25% power if that. Also seems to bog when starting from a stop. I would call it like a chugg. lol not sure how to explain it. When the tires are off the ground its fine. But sitting on the ground it has the bogging/chugging problem from a startand like I said pretty much goes like 4 mph. Not sure what to do but this is a brand new truck. Thinking maybe the slipper was too tight from the factory and went bad or something is wrong in the tranny. Like I said only had maybe5 minutes of run time and I also checked the batteries and they were not even 25% run down. I'm brand new to these electrics. Please give any advise that you guys can, but I'm considering just sending it back to tower because I'm not sure what to do.