what does a blinkinf red light mean?????

[cutterman]

My Losi was working just fine and it all of the sudden quit, I don't see anything wrong as in a plug undone or something simple like that. I did notice that instead of a steady green light on the ESC it blinks between red and green. Help!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[crawlinlosi]

My Losi was working just fine and it all of the sudden quit, I don't see anything wrong as in a plug undone or something simple like that. I did notice that instead of a steady green light on the ESC it blinks between red and green. Help!!!!!!!!!!!!

first make sure your vehicle battery is completely charged. Go ahead and drop the $$$ for rechargable AA batteries for the radio also (which is more than likely the problem). If those 2 suggestions do not fix it, go ahaed and do the rebinding process.

 

[rccrawlerguy]

what he said^^^^^

 

[wildthing]

you probably ran out of battery.

you probably burned your esc.

those are the two possible reasons.

 

[wildthing]

i think he meant was don't use the stock battery charger of LOSI MRC. They are so cheap that they don't do a good charge. I use a Turnigy Accel 6 ... a low budget charger but charge quite good for my needs.

 

[soundcolor]

I second the above. It has to either be your batteries, or your ESC.
You might try calling Losi, and asking them.

As for the stock charger. It only works fine, if you charge the battery for no more than 4.5 hours. I know Losi says 5 to 6, but in my experience, by the time it hits 5 hours, the battery, and charger are already smokin hot. So, if you only charge it for 4.5 hours, then run it dead, and re-charge, it should be fine, but as a rule, its a pos, and needs to be replaced.

 

[Stuck]

If it were your ESC I do not think it would blink at all. Make sure your battery is charged,unplug your servo from the RX and see if that helps. When I toasted my servo my ESC did the same thing. Good Luck"thumbsup"

 

[MR. MAX]

help.. mine is diong this now too its like both green and red are blinking at once

 

[JOMJ87]

Brand new out of the box mine is now doing this same deal. The Reciever light isnt lighting up either? Tried rebinding and all with no help. Reciever unplug it blinks one plug in it blinks if i add the second plug it goes out and does nothing. Charged the battery for 3 hours when i took it out of the box. Moved the elcetroincs around and BAM never even got to drive it. I am going to charge it longer but figured i would see what fixed those that had this problem in the post?

Cole

 

[soundcolor]

1st things 1st. Replace the stock radio batteries with some good energizers or duracells, or even better would be some NiMh regargables.
Then rebind your radio and ESC.
If that doesnt work. Check the connections on your reciever making sure that the plugs are plugged in where they are supposed to be and that they are plugged in the direction they are supposed to be.
If that doesnt work, unplug the batteries then unplug the wires from the ESC to the reciever, and from the servo to the reciever. Then plug the battery back in and turn it on. The ESC should light up green. If it doesnt then the ESC is bad.
If the ESC lights up green then go back and hook up the servo, and ESC to the reciever in the slots they belong in. Then turn the truck on. If that doesnt work then the ESC is fine and the problem is with the reciever.

Also, always remember that it takes about 15-20 seconds after you turn on the radio and truck for them to find each other and start talking to themselves.

One other thing to check is the radio itself. When you turn it on, there should be an orange light on the back of it that lights up. If it doesnt, then its either the batterys, or something is wrong with the radio.

Hope this helps.

 

[JOMJ87]

I thought ESC as well but after speaking to losi the think its the reciever so they have one in the mail for me. If its not then i will assume they will send the ESC next. I am very frustrated with this because i bought it last week and I just got it MONDAY and NEVER even ran it. Charged the battery and nothing worked from the beginning. Nothing was unplugged until it wouldnt work and i charged the stock pack all night and the radio batteries were replaced 3 times. ESC just blinks red until i plug in the receiver and then it goes off once the second plug goes in. Thanks for the input

Cole

 

[01tj]

mine is doin the same thing. if u put it in kind of a bind it will stop and cut off and have to reset the servo. im runnin a holmes hobby mini torque master. any ideas?

 

[JOMJ87]

Mine was the ESC bad out of the box.

Cole