Electrics Help!

[wats]

Hi all. Have a couple of issues;

1. Getting a sparking and some smoke from what looks like 2 resistors when I wire up the battery?! No idea what I am doing wrong. Didn’t do this at the weekend??

2. Have a new receiver for an old Spektrum DX3s I had. Reset all settings. Plugged it, when I switch the power on all I get is loads of throttle?! What am I doing wrong again?!

Thanks in advance.

Andy

[mark christopher]

need pictures of where smoke is coming from and speedo, but sounds like your speedo is goosed

[rugmuncher]

Sounds like you mean the capacitors. If so I'd try changing them before getting a new ESC.

[mark christopher]

Sounds like you mean the capacitors. If so I'd try changing them before getting a new ESC.
once a capacitor is blown (smoke) it wont hold the speedo in full power.

but yes he could cut them off to try

[wats]

Thanks for that. The car seems to be working ok. Not sure why it happened. There does seem to be a small spark as a push in the battery connectors - is that normal?

Any ideas on the Spektrum receiver?

Cheers.

[rugmuncher]

Thanks for that. The car seems to be working ok. Not sure why it happened. There does seem to be a small spark as a push in the battery connectors - is that normal?

Any ideas on the Spektrum receiver?

Cheers.

Occasional spark when pushing in the connectors is fairly normal.

Can't help with the Spektrum issue, sorry.

[Yorkiebar]

Are you just swapping the RX over into the car with the rest of the electrics? Are you re-calibrating the ESC when swapping?

[NeilRalph77]

2. Have a new receiver for an old Spektrum DX3s I had.

Andy

I've got to ask you are still using a spektrum hand set arn't you?