Thursday, 8 August 2013

Why's there No Power?

what's going on...?

I've encountered a mystifying problem when I connected the receiver on the Walrus to the control leads. The setup in this particular case was as easy as you get, with each lead having with a numeric tag and the receiver having corresponding labels.

To make life even easier, the ESC already has an XT60 plug to connect straight to the battery. The only change I needed to make was to put an extension lead onto the control lead from the ESC, as this was just way too short.



However, when I powered it up nothing happened. Usually one hears a momentary chatter of the servos powering up, but this time absolutely nothing. To cut a long and most frustrating episode short, after having swapped ESC's and receivers to no avail, I have transplanted my six-channel receiver from the Floater with success.

The Floater, by the way, is still resting in the study...

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