My evening of RC Tank Trouble Shooting Hell.


David game me some more things to test for tonight. As I went to check things over before I powered up my tank, I noticed that a wire from both the ESC and RX had broken off at the solder points to the DBC. [:@]

I got so frusterated with resoldering these fricken wirers that I replaced them all with solid wire strands and hardwired them all (ie removed the connecter points on the ESC and RX). While doing so, the SIG connection point on the DBC had enough and broke off the circuit board! [:@] So I had to put in a jumper to another solder point on the board.

At this time my bottle of plastic glue that I did not secure spilt all over my work table. The tank escaped but it made one hell of a mess and I had a relapse in my vocabulary back to my Army days. Good thing the little one was already asleep.

Ok, with everything back together, I said a quick prayer and powered up. Yahoo everything works! Now I can begin to do some testing with the Multi-meter. But oh wait, I left the multi-meter on last night and the battery inside is now dead. And do you think I could find another AAA in the house???? No!

Time for a drink as the Electronic Gremlins win another round.[sm=cry_smile.gif]