Hobbywing EZRun MAX6 G2 Sensored Brushless ESC & Motor Combo w/4990SD G2 (1650kV)

Extremely satisfied with the product, its description and the good communication from the Amain team. Everything arrived perfectly, just as described, and extremely quickly.

Thanks

Ran my max6 G2 for a good 20 runs until it just shut off mid run, and now whenever I try running any current through it it'll die. This is my second one of these.

Update: 07/10/2024
I'm not sure what happened, but the caps blew out on me on my second bash session. I was running zeee 120C 6S 5000mah lipo's with 20/50 gearing. Temps were good, performance seemed fine. I landed a jump I've hit many times and it just stopped. It powered off. I pressed the power button and it came back on, but shut off again when it did the first motor beep it usually does on boot. Then I noticed there was some sort of shmoo around the capacitor area on the esc, servo, chassis and body.

I was right at 35 days after getting it when it happened. I contacted hobbywing and they gave me 3 options:
1 - pay shipping, return it and have it inspected, if it was faulty, they send me a new one. If it was deemed user error, I get $10 off a new one.
2 - Pay shipping, send it in, they send me a new one for $90 (plus shipping).
3 - Get a new one for $103 (plus shipping)

I went with #3 and they also gave me healthy discount on the 1 year warranty ($9 vs $29.99).

I had already ordered a new one from amain, so the one from HW directly will be a spare. I'll install the one I get from amain since it's here already, but I'll be adding the 6x1800uf cap pack to it as well and hope that fixes the issue.

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06/13/2024

So far so good.

I had 3 of the older max6v3's in service and my kraton had the max6v3/4985-1650kv combo in it. I had run into issues where the esc truck would stop and the esc would show a 5 green blink led code. I couldn't find anywhere what that meant, but did find in the firma160 manual that it was the capacitors overheating. So, I added an 1800uf x 6 cap pack which seemed to help. It would still stop on occasion, but had to be a 80F+ day and usually during the end of the 2nd or middle of the 3rd 6200mah pack run through it, back to back.

With a coupon, I was able to get the g2 system for $220 shipped, so figured I'd give it a shot.

Installation went ok, I cut about 3 inches off the motor wires as they were much longer than the old 4985's and I didn't want to have all that wire flopping around. After some creative ziptie'ing, I was able to get the sensor wire/motor wires all buttoned up nicely. I had to reroute my motor cooler fans to the receiver though as the max6g2 doesn't have a fan/program port on it like the old one. I replaced the fan in the esc with a surpass/rocket alloy framed 35mm fan. It fit in without much issue. I run that off the receiver power also so it's always on. The motor has a Powerhobby PHMount03 fan holder with 2 40mm surpass/rocket alloy framed fans. The BEC set to 7.4V. I'm also running a HobbyStar HCS-4521 servo.

Bluetooth worked well on my bench. I kept the same gearing as before (20T pinion) as that's enough speed for me, I set the punch/brake the same as the max6v3. I didn't wire in the cap pack as I wanted to see how this did on it's own. After running a pack through it, I wanted to change some settings and see what the "log" showed. I had run the pack to LVC and apparently it won't link when at LVC. I plugged in a fresh pack, then I was able to link and make adjustments. TBH, I was fine using the program box on the old one.

With the punch set similar to the old system, I found that the throttle felt muted and the brakes were too aggressive, 50% punch/50% brake. I increased the punch one notch and decreased the brakes one notch, then it felt more familiar. Still a hair on the lazy side, but once I got used to it, it was ok. I don't like running super high punch as it just beats up the drive train and since I don't ever try doing standing backflips, I just put the punch up to as high as I need it to get it to respond well in the air and off the face of a jump.

I ran 1 5200mah 120C and 2 6200mah 40C packs through it back to back with the only downtime being when my pinion loosened/slid forward and my front cvd popped out of the diff cup. Otherwise it was constantly in motion. I only have one bash on it so far, so will see how it does as time goes on.

This is the edited footage from the bash:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXWGPgPOeDE

Great powerful esc with built in bluetooth. Absolutely no complaints. And with lots of adjustability. I bought this system for the new Team Associated sr7 Hoonicorn and it’s a perfect fit with no mods necessary.