Sure enough, I smoked another tiny electronic device. Perfect.I tried using the on-road gas car receiver pack to power up the system just now, and actually had the rudder and elevator on the Mini-max responding, though it seemed a Chineese puzzle as to which channel was which and which stick on the Futaba Conquest TX was going to operate which surface. I thought I knew which bay on the receiver was for the speed control, as I could see the left stick (Which I think is to be the throttle) was running one of the two servos.
Connecting the speed control to the appropriate spot on the receiver did nothing, and I was trying to enable the "safe-start" circuit as per directions. In any case in one of the several connect/disconnect cycles I saw a spark in the receiver and after several more fruitless attempts where nothing happened I suddenly got a definite little arc in the little sucker.
I was obviously trying to keep pos/pos and neg/neg where there are just the two, but I still am not certain as to the white/red/black orientation.
I got out a standard receiver and used a standard 4-cell AA pack and the new little servos are fine; the speed control is a question mark and I suspect the receiver may NOT be a question mark.
I wish to crap I had one of you guys here who knows something; my retired teacher buddy who knew LOTS in an intuitive way about ham radio and simple electronics had the misfortune to die two years ago so I don't have anyone on the local scene who knows or cares much about electric RC planes!Thanks for any info. Glen Priest