ESC Problems Maybe???

[bladerunner210]

Hello everyone, I was flying my Sr last night and I went threw 3 successful battery packs no crashes or anything. I recharged my batteries and went out to fly again and I plugged everything up right and did everything right the esc armed and everything so I was good to go. Well I throttled up to mid and it went straight in fail safe mode so I turned everything off and let everything wait. I plugged it all back in and esc armed and everything was ready, again I throttle up to mid-stick and boom fail safe again. So I thought okay maybe its a battery so I went threw all my batteries and the same thing on every one of them. So then that lead me to believe something else was wrong. So I pulled everything apart all my wires to the esc are good not burnt all the connection are all good no slices in the wires anywhere. So then I checked the receiver to see if maybe one of the antennas had a slice in them or maybe not out enough but everything was fine there. I made sure everything was plugged into the receiver the right way and nice and snug no loose connections or anything and everything was fine there as well. So then I decided to turn everything on again to see what happens. So I turned everything on again and held the Sr in one hand and throttled up slowly to mid-stick and this is what I noticed. When I'm at mid-stick everything is okay nice and smooth and as soon as it goes about mid-stick fail safe, I noticed every time it does my servos act up right before like twitching and then it goes into fail safe. The servos will shoot up really fast at periodic times. I even re-binded everything last night to see if that would help nope still the same thing. I just cant figure this out I've been wrecking my brain on this one can someone please help I love my SR. Does this sound like the esc is going out maybe or maybe my receiver????

[nbells]

Try this first.

Disconnect all your servos from the receiver. Then power up as normal and see if you have "throttle" control.

If this works, try plugging each one in seperatley until the problem occurs.

Try having your gyro disconnected as well

nbells

[bladerunner210]

Well I did exactly what you said. Now the receiver light wont even turn on the esc beeps and arms butt the receiver wont light up at all now. So I would take this as its the receiver correct???

[bladerunner210]

Okay well no the receiver took and and I have throttle up and everything is fine and it doesnt go into fail safe with everything unplugged gonna plug everything in one by one now and see what happens

[GSPI]

Status light only lights when things are attached from what I've seen when troubleshooting the AR6100. You are doing fine. Just one item at a time so you can localize the problem.

[bladerunner210]

Okay so I have no clue what is going here now. I did everything just like you said one by one and and the ail was the last channel I plugged in and I plugged it and guess what everything has decided to work again So maybe I didnt have everything in tight like I thought or it just decided to start working on its own again I swear at times this thing loves me to death and at others it just wants to fight with me ugggh lets see how long this last

[bladerunner210]

Im fixing to go test it out right now. So I will probably be back in just a few minutes with another problem with Sr stay tuned in

[GSPI]

Trust me... been there done that have a T-shirt to prove it like many of us here! Good luck!

[bladerunner210]

Okay so back to square one. It was working just fine before I walked out I let everything get adjusted to the temp outside and I plugged everything in and everything armed solid orange light turned TH off and half-stick I was fine and as soon as I went about mid fail safe again and other suggestions

[bladerunner210]

meant any other suggestions not and sorry

[DKS_ONE]

What kind of shape are the batteries in? I would be checking voltages... what charger you use?

[bladerunner210]

Batteries are fine I don't over charger or discharge and I only run them 5 minutes at a time and I use the Sr charger that came with it.

[bladerunner210]

If there was something wrong with the batteries when i pull everything out of the receiver except for throttle it should go to fail safe correct if it was. Well it doesnt it runs fine until I plug my servos and gyro in but then again they was all working before I took it out and it did it to me again so I have no clue what is going on here

[bladerunner210]

is there maybe something I'm missing here???

[bladerunner210]

Well I'm gonna take a wild guess at this but seems like all my servos decided to go out all at once there all acting up and it only goes into fail safe with my servos hooked up and one of them everything else seems to be fine could this be what it is??

[bladerunner210]

Found the problem finally after messing with this thing all day and about to go spend money on servos lmbo , and it was just my tail motor wire had a slice in it causing it to short out man you gotta love the Sr tail motors and wires always the tail with these things always

[DKS_ONE]

Wow, good job! Hahaha, glad you found it. Sorry we didn't get the answer for you right away now get out and fly!! Hahaha

Edit: Oh ya, the stock charger isn't the best, it works but not awesome at balancing. Long term it would be good to look into a better charger

[bladerunner210]

It's all good at least everyone got me pointed in the right direction if no one would of told me to take everything out of the rx one by one to see what was causing the problem, I would of never thought of that. So Thanks for the suggestion. Yea the stock chargers aren't the best and I agree to that I just bought one online the other day just waiting for it to get here, gotta love that waiting game lol, Just got done with 3 more packs whooo hooo gotta recharge and out the door I go again.

[dcarboni]

in the future if you suspect your ecs just check the voltage out i think on that ecs the output voltage is 5.5 vdc if you have that than it has to be something else. Like servo or tail motor.