ORIGINAL: emanjackson
Hi SyCo,
Thanks for that,
I am very new to this, so please explain what a ''BEC'' is.
I dont know if my RX is fried? is there any way of testing it? I do not know anyone who has one I can try.
It has been like this since I got it, but I assumed that it was something that I have not configured properly, by now the shop will tell me to bugger off if I ask them for a replacement RX.
The car will move for a few seconds, and then start beeping and flashing, if I then hold the transmitter antenna to the rx aerial it stops beeping, and sort of resets itself. does this mean my TX is screwed?
Does the transmitter have to have a certain amount of chargew for it to work properly? the led on the top says its good to go (showing green)
Im gonna throw it out the feckin window! its doing my head in!
Thanks for your help and guidance..
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BEC = Battery Elimination Circuit basically it puts out a very regulated 6Volts's for the electronics like the receivers run on
the TEU puts 7.4 volts (damn near up to 8Volts on a freshly charged pack) with no regulation of the voltage into the radio so it spikes, and damages the electronics. Back when the TEU was 1st made BEC's seem to have been in the receivers(one of the ancient AM futabas has them that tower sells), but with the shrinking of the RX's to save space they were mostly eliminated cause modern ESC's have them. UNFORTUNATELY Tamiya has never updated the TEU's to the modern day. Personally I wish they would not bother including them in the kits, and just knock $20 off the kit so we could go buy a more modern ESC which a fair bit of people end up doing.
So there fore I am guessing it damaged the receivers circuitry. Either that or the antenna on the RX is damaged (But I'd bank more on the RX being damaged from voltage spikes)