69eyes

On my tmaxx 3.3, I took off the cases from both the receiver box and the battery box and RIT dyed them black, along with both sets of servo mounts. now that I reassemble the truck, I get a constant red light on the optidrive. Only the steering servo works, not the reverse/forward shift servo or the throttle/brake servo. The wires have no physical damage to them that i can see. Anybody know what is causing this?

and don't tell me to ditch optidrive because I don't feel the need to.

RCCanuck

its hooked up wrong

69eyes

i never unhooked anything though. any other ideas?

Traxxas_Tech

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If you're sure you didn't unhook anything, check the sensor lead and make sure its plugged in correctly along with the throttle servo. Maybe take the sensor out and brush it off with an old toothbrush. Red light indicates either no signal to the throttle channel, no signal to/from the Optidrive sensor, or no signal (or intermittent) signal from the transmitter. The only other possible culprit would be the optidrive itself, which is unlikely since you say it worked fine before you took the boxes off. Also try replacing the batteries in the TX, and charging/replacing the batteries in the truck. Something has changed, find the change and you've found the culprit.

jerry_pnegras@hotmail

try whit a new batterys or check if the sensor,(optidrive) has humidity

69eyes

alright, ill try them all out. thanks and ill post the results soon.

i thought that low batteries mean a flashing red light[&:]

nonetheless, ill try anything

thanks again[8D]

69eyes

Ok, I tried all those things, charging the battery pack, fresh batteries in the transmitter, took apart the optidrive and brushed it off with a toothbrush, did the same with the inside of the receiver. I have looked at the exploded view from the Traxxas website and my wires are exactly like it shows. Think its the optidrive?[&o]

I took a 2 month break from RC because it was just too frustrating trying to fix one thing and have 2 more things magically break[]

NITROHOLICS ANONYMOUS

well the other day with my revo 3.3 the batteries went low and the optidrive went solid red. Check ALL connections 3 times over

DaveG55

Bypass the opti-drive and check for operation. If everything works then the opti-drive has gone bad. If you still have problmes then you'll need to look further.

69eyes

ok, how do i bypass optidrive? I checked the connections and they are correct.

thanks for the replys

NITROHOLICS ANONYMOUS

I just found out yeaterday that my optidrive was red because one of the connections had come loose, and it gave me steering control but no throttle. have a look in the manual, i reckon you will be able to figure out how to bypass it.