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03-30-2013, 06:32 PM | #1 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Hurricane
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| Did I smoke the esc and BEC?
I have a AE2 ESC with a BEC hooked up to it to run 3S. I have deans on the motor wires and the battery wires which are the same and know now that they shouldn't be. I hooked the motor to the wires that go to the battery and the battery to the wires that should go to the motor. It sparked and the truck started to take off, I unplugged it as soon as it happened. It will go forward but will not go in reverse. Did I smoke the BEC along with the ESC? Is it worth sending the ESC to Castle to get repaired? Please help me. Thanks.
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03-30-2013, 09:13 PM | #2 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: clarksville,ar
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Do you have the castle link for the esc or bec? Maybe hooking it up will twll u more if u have the castle link software..
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03-31-2013, 05:06 AM | #3 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Hurricane
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I do have it, I will hook it up and see what happens.
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03-31-2013, 09:53 AM | #4 |
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I hooked the esc up to the castle link and it didn't tell me anything. I hooked it back up and it still won't work in reverse. Is it worth sending the esc to castle link to get it repaired? What does it usually cost?
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03-31-2013, 10:19 AM | #5 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: 01011
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| Re: Did I smoke the esc and BEC?
I could be wrong but I was under the impression the Axial AE2 is not 3S compatible. I think the higher voltage may cause you to fry the ESC on its own without accidentally hooking it up wrong.
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03-31-2013, 10:22 AM | #6 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Hurricane
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If you run a BEC you can run 3S. I have run them on 3S for a while with no issues.
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03-31-2013, 10:51 AM | #7 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Blacksburg
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| Re: Did I smoke the esc and BEC?
Just for the heck of it try to recalibrate the ESC.
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03-31-2013, 10:58 AM | #8 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Hurricane
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I did and that didn't help.
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03-31-2013, 12:09 PM | #9 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Las Vegas 89121
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| Re: Did I smoke the esc and BEC?
If you reverse the motor wires does it reverse what is wrong? Or if you reverse F&R on the tx does it change anything?
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03-31-2013, 01:00 PM | #10 | |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: 07456 N. NJ USofA
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| Re: Did I smoke the esc and BEC? Quote:
He now likely has 2 choices, reverse or forward out of the ESC.... | |
04-01-2013, 04:48 PM | #11 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Hurricane
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If I reverse the throttle on the Tx reverse works and not forward. When you put it in reverse the light on the esc is flashing red. Does anyone know what it cost to get it repaired from Castle?
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04-28-2013, 12:48 AM | #12 |
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It's about $30 to get it replaced by castle. Also I had something similar happen but not hooking up wires incorrectly anyways it shorted on the board but I tried to hook it up just to see and it powers on arms and everything and forward worked just fine but no reverse what so ever.
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