speedo fire!

[jasonnjane]

right last night my gtb went up in smoke...nothing wired up wrong or anything.just decided to blow itself up.

anyone any wiser on why it did this and what fault could be?

[Col]

Speedo's just do it sometimes due to no fault of the racer. Is GTB brushed or brushless? Never seen or heard of a brushless releasing the magic smoke...

[danDanEFC]

My Novak GTB speedo just went, with blue smoke, last year. It was just sitting there all plugged in waiting for the race to start.

I was told it was something to do with feedback from the servo but I dont know if this is true or not.

I have only heard of this before on two other GTB's.

I sent mine away to see if it could be fixed as it was outside the 120 day warranty and I was told no as it was too badly damaged.

My mate who bought his GTB from the same shop at the same time is still working and it hasnt missed a beat in 3 years.

[jasonnjane]

well its prob just electrics....

this was just sat there all ready to race,plugged in and as switched on to go race.....up in smoke it went.

speedo has been fine for two years.
shame.

[danDanEFC]

Sounds very similar mate

[Richard saunders]

mine went up 2day it did look gd tho hehehe

[jasonnjane]

yeah...looks good but car will stink forever.

[stox217]

Originally Posted by jasonnjane

yeah...looks good but car will stink forever.

How very true
eco27's make a good mess too
filled the hall full of white smoke and gunk everywhere
made the racing more realistic tho (caution fog slow down)

[mole2k]

I had one that burst into flames! The speedo overheated melting the wire insulation which in turn then shorted the batterys out!

I went around a corner planted the throttle and the car started smoking badly, the marshall set it up on the stage. I took the bodyshell off and the car burst into flames so I ran outside with it and shook it till the batterys fell out (Cat3k so the battery straps were plastic!)

For the next few weeks somebody kept putting a fire extinguisher beside my pit table as a joke

[Paulmay79]

I had a nosram dominator that just melted its self no reason for it to it just did! Funny things electronics.

[dave-p]

my last gtb went up in flames for no reason , everything was coupled correctly its still a mystery to me how it happened.

[Matt_N]

Originally Posted by Richard saunders

mine went up 2day it did look gd tho hehehe

I had mine go up after being switched on for 20 seconds a few weeks ago. Shane's also went up 2 weeks ago.

Matt

[Dep]

As Kings of Leon sang.....
Ohhh my speedo is on fire