GuyFromCanada
Active Member
A couple of days ago, I was bashing around with a small fan on the ESC and a small fan with a heatsink on the brushed motor. Things were going well, until the steering intermittently stopped responding to the signal. For a while it was only the right turn that I would need to try a few times to get it to respond. After a few more minutes, steering started getting sluggish, and eventually stopped responding altogether.
Originally, I was thinking it might just be the BEC overloading due to the fans running off it. So I checked some stuff, and tried again after it was cool a day or so later. Still the same problem, except now occasionally without any input, or with significant delay, the motor would briefly kick in.
Okay, I thought weak transmitter batteries. Changed those but still the issue remains. I wondered if I might have damaged the receiver with too much current draw (couldn't find max current specs for the TR326 receiver). So I tried the servo in my other truck, with different receiver and ESC/BEC. Same issue.
Short story...I seem to have electronically done something to my servo which I would like to avoid doing again. Any ideas? Could it still be due to an initial BEC overload with the two fans?
Originally, I was thinking it might just be the BEC overloading due to the fans running off it. So I checked some stuff, and tried again after it was cool a day or so later. Still the same problem, except now occasionally without any input, or with significant delay, the motor would briefly kick in.
Okay, I thought weak transmitter batteries. Changed those but still the issue remains. I wondered if I might have damaged the receiver with too much current draw (couldn't find max current specs for the TR326 receiver). So I tried the servo in my other truck, with different receiver and ESC/BEC. Same issue.
Short story...I seem to have electronically done something to my servo which I would like to avoid doing again. Any ideas? Could it still be due to an initial BEC overload with the two fans?