I like this mower my wife especially likes it borrowed a gas one while this one was down and she absolutely hated it and begged me to fix this one. So I went through and bypass all the safety switches and could not get it to start still. So the ultimate result was I removed all the electronics except for the motor and hooked up an Xlx2. It went from a repair to an upgrade. Thr mower wasn't that bad to start with but understandably so Kobalt cannot put the most expensive ESC in the mower and still be priced competitively.