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Old 07-10-2013, 08:11 PM
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PeterP
 
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Default RE: ESC Failure - What went wrong?

Hi Jason,

Motor is a Hacker not sure exact but it is an A16XX series 1. Prop is APC 16x10E

Some of the servos smoked not sure about receiver as there was plenty of smoke around at the time so not sure. either way receiver is dead. The ESC failed and basically put 22 volts onto the receiver bus and the reset is history. I don't think I will bother using a ESC with a BEC in future. In hindsight I should have snipped the positive wire from ESC to throttle channel before using it to ensure this would not happen either though I wasnt using the BEC feature in the ESC.