ORIGINAL: jaquo2
I just recieved my caldera 10e first thing i did was try to program esc no lights would work will not do anything. Turned car on everything works but still need to program to work properly... first run hit a curb at half speed broke front knuckle. Redcat said to send in esc so they could look at it good thing i bought this to look at it why the hell would i want to use it!!!! So needless to say just got my new batteries i ordered and now my car sits broke as hell. REGRET made in china thats what i get for being cheap.... This truck is (suppose) to be made for bashing the only place i will jump this is in the sand!!!! and it will probably break there to!!!
Wow i find that hard to believe but what temprature is it outside where your at???when you sayyou broke a knuckle what exactly doe sthat mean?which knuckle?
ive jumped mine 8-10ft in the air came down sideways landed on the right front and nothing broke, well except the
cheap a s s body.
The screws at the bottom of the c-hubs are notorious for falling out/coming loose is it possible thats whats happened to yours?
Can you post a pic of the damage?? as long as your enjoying looking at it may as well show off the damage right lol.
Im throughly impressed wiith my caldera however it seems to run to hot like WAYHOT!!, i also emailed redcat in hope they would send me a new motor (of course they wont but hey it was worth a shot) and i could send the "Hot " one back,, They told me the same as you send us the truck,, heck id rather run it till the motor does go then just swap in a different motor.
Mine ran ok without programing the esc, i manually programmed mine with no problems but its for sure not easy,,,, infact i need to re- do it again.
Is your RX/TXcalibrated? if so also make sure b4 you try to manually program the esc that your trim is set so your throttle is neutral, i found mine to be touchy if i dont have the trim just right even though the truck doesnt move you can hear that its outting power to the motor. The LED's are also hard to see being that they are on the side of the ESC you may need to remove your reciever box cover to be able to see what the lights are doing.
Good luck with it and please post a decent pics of whats broke if you can it may actually be an easy no parts needed fix.