Sidewinder Micro Issue...what the?

[mrG]

I installed a new sidewinder micro and new castle bec (direct wired) and I have some weird issues now.

1. The esc won't calibrated. It give me a green and yellow light. Castle says that should never happen when calibrating, but

2. it will run the motor if I turn it on and don't try to calibrate it. But the servo glitches crazy style.

When I unplug the signal wire from the esc but leave the positive and negative the servo works as it should.

I hooked it up to the castlelink before I installed it to take care of my settings. I tried another rx and got same issues. I reset my tx and got the same issues.

Has anyone had these problems?

 

[ittybitty]

What type of radio (4PL, 4PK, DX3R, etc.) are you using?

Any pics of your wiring...where things are placed?

 

[mrG]

Well I got it figured out.

I talked to castle and they weren't much help with the esc, but they did help me solve the servo issue. They said to only direct wire the positive wire form the bec to the servo. So now the negative and signal wire go to the rx. This is the way they recommend direct wiring a servo.

As for the esc, it was the firmware. I had 1.39beta now I have 1.32 and it's all good"thumbsup"

 

[ittybitty]

Oh yeah...that beta version has some issues...found that out not too long ago

 

[mrG]

I was in the thinking chair last night and direct wiring only the positive wire with the signal and negative wire from my servo connected to the rx didn't seem right to me. That would be all the current from my servo going through the rx, defeating the purpose of direct wiring.

So I called castle back and they said the negative form the servo AND the negative from the bec should be connected to the rx. They also directed me to the web page.

http://www.castlecreations.com/support/documents/multiple_cc_bec_setup.pdf

Didn't want anyone to be misinformed.