Hi BIggTOny
Its my wallet that deserves sympathy....I'll survive, it might not!
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So you've started from the ground up and no communication from the transmitter to the receiver to start the tank up.
Thats correct..
Even if you only have the motors hooked up to the RX18 board and receiver to the control board?
Ihavent tried it with just th emotors....Iwas using the speaker as a "default" status (Iassumed that it would less risky....but Icould be wrong).
Both wires are securely connected from the RX18 board to the receiver?
Im now getting confused.....Ionly have one wire from the RXboard to the receiver? Its a three strand wire....Icannot find any other one?
Have you hooked up a volt meter from the RX18 board to the receiver? I can't remember the voltage reading I got from the wire that connects to the receiver, but there is a substantial current reading if I recall.
Thats what Im after.....as in th etype of info Ineed.
Edit: I just checked the receiver board using the soldered joints where the three wires connect to the receiver. With a fully charged battery, the supplied voltage was a constant 7.6v from the positive wire (blue) and negative wire (Red) and constant voltage with the Black and Red wire was a constant 3.2v. This was with the tank in idle mode.
Nice one! If there is no voltage there (across the wires) does that mean the RX18 is busted (and possibly the TXboard)? If there is a voltage does that mean the RXis OK and the TXis busted?
I have a loose speaker sitting next to the board. (I know, that's asking for trouble.) The tank wouldn't turn on! It just stayed blinking. I thought,"Oh, brother....here we go!" lol The speaker sitting right next to it was causing interference and viola! It turned on, lol.
Oh crikey.......I need to move the three or four spare speakers Ihave from the side of the tank.....
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