waaaa : steering servo is RIP?

[alexus]

Hello World ;-)

I was finishing up with upgrading of the ESC, connected everything to test - everything seems to be working ...

assemble the whole thing, charge both of the batteries, basically ready to leave...

.. last minute turn the car on and the steering goes all the way to the hard right, i'm like wtf.. turned car off, moved (manually) wheels in the center, tried turning car on again and the same thing, wheel turns hard right.. so i turned the car off to investigate ..

opened my receiver box, disconnect steering servo and heard spark, turns out i forgot to disconnect the battery before unplugging servo... now with disconnected battery, i disconnect steering servo and connect back, connect battery, turned on remote controller, car, but servo is dead?

please advise)
thanks in advance!

 

[Hammer Down]

Buy new servo

 

[Tex Koder]

It happens. Time to upgrade servo!

 

[alexus]

oh well, rip

> Your order is confirmed

 

[Lil Dylan]

HOLD ON!!!!!

I made a thread about this exact topic last week and thought my servo was dead. I didn't catch on until it happened on a second car in a week. It turns out my servo/receiver whatever was getting reset maybe by my toddler. Take the servo horn off and rebind the receiver, recalibrate the esc and install the horn and see if that fixes it. It fixed mine.

 

[Dan B.]

HOLD ON!!!!!

I made a thread about this exact topic last week and thought my servo was dead. I didn't catch on until it happened on a second car in a week. It turns out my servo/receiver whatever was getting reset maybe by my toddler. Take the servo horn off and rebind the receiver, recalibrate the esc and install the horn and see if that fixes it. It fixed mine.

Yes. And check to make sure your toddler didn’t twist the steering trim knob on your radio to full left.

 

[PaulLiu]

Probably short circuit.

 

[alexus]

haha! of course after I got new servo, I figure out the way to test it..
.. and now I know that my original servo did _NOT_ died, and it's actually working just fine, so I have a spare servo now))

 

[Hammer Down]

haha! of course after I got new servo, I figure out the way to test it..
.. and now I know that my original servo did _NOT_ died, and it's actually working just fine, so I have a spare servo now))

What was the problem then?

 

[alexus]

What was the problem then?

still trying to figure out myself:
https://www.arrmaforum.com/threads/...and-fs-gt5-transmitter-troubleshooting.61241/

i swapped esc, do you know if i need to redo something with the receiver? all of the sudden CH1 isn't working (it wasn't the servo)

 

[Hammer Down]

Sounds like ch1 on your rx might be toast…

 

[alexus]

Sounds like ch1 on your rx might be toast…

is that a thing? do i need to replace the receiver now? or is there a way to re-program it somehow to use other channel instead of my steering?

 

[SrC]

No, the ST servo channel is always going to be on Channel 1. That is controlled by the ST Wheel. No way around this.

 

[alexus]

I just got everything to work!!! w/ no longer dead ST servo and no longer an issue w/ receiver/transmitter either!

 

[Hammer Down]

I just got everything to work!!! w/ no longer dead ST servo and no longer an issue w/ receiver/transmitter either!

Awesome! What did you do? Were you able to assign the steering servo to a different channel or did channel 1 miraculously start working again?

 

[alexus]

Awesome! What did you do? Were you able to assign the steering servo to a different channel or did channel 1 miraculously start working again?

all I had to do is to perform factory reset of the transmitter and then re-binding it with the receiver)