I have a 4S V2 Outcast that was down for about a month with a broken chassis. After doing the swap, the truck is up and running, but now there is a problem with reverse. The truck sometimes floors itself in reverse spontaneously. Other times, just barely touching reverse on the transmitter will cause this. Other times, intentionally reversing doesn't work the first time.
It's an RTR truck with stock Spektrum electronics. I know when Horizon Hobby switched these trucks over to their in-house Spektrum stuff, a lot of people were complaining. It seems like the quality control issues sorted themselves out, and I haven't noticed any recent current of overt hatred for the Spektrum stuff.
Anyway, it's just the stock SLT3 transmitter, and whatever receiver came in the truck. It was working quite satisfactorily before the chassis swap. I can't imagine that I damaged the receiver in any way. My first thought was the transmitter, which generally seems kind of cheap anyway. I took it apart, and the forward/reverse is just a pot, or maybe a funky rheostat. (I haven't fooled with electronics in ages.) There really isn't anything user serviceable there. It's working or it isn't. If it's a pot, do pots fail like that? Just sending a random, spurious signal? Maybe. I don't know.
I thought I'd pick the gang's brain on this one. I'm sure somebody has more of a clue than I do which component to look at. I can verify that it isn't due to any kind of contamination or mechanical damage. The inside of the transmitter was pristine, and everything was A-OK mechanically.
It's an RTR truck with stock Spektrum electronics. I know when Horizon Hobby switched these trucks over to their in-house Spektrum stuff, a lot of people were complaining. It seems like the quality control issues sorted themselves out, and I haven't noticed any recent current of overt hatred for the Spektrum stuff.
Anyway, it's just the stock SLT3 transmitter, and whatever receiver came in the truck. It was working quite satisfactorily before the chassis swap. I can't imagine that I damaged the receiver in any way. My first thought was the transmitter, which generally seems kind of cheap anyway. I took it apart, and the forward/reverse is just a pot, or maybe a funky rheostat. (I haven't fooled with electronics in ages.) There really isn't anything user serviceable there. It's working or it isn't. If it's a pot, do pots fail like that? Just sending a random, spurious signal? Maybe. I don't know.
I thought I'd pick the gang's brain on this one. I'm sure somebody has more of a clue than I do which component to look at. I can verify that it isn't due to any kind of contamination or mechanical damage. The inside of the transmitter was pristine, and everything was A-OK mechanically.
Spektrum gear aint all that. And calibrations are known to drift, and need to be recalibrated from time to time. Also, check the radio dials.... for any inadvertant changes that might have occurred. Sometimes it is that simple.
