RC10GT almost finished
 

I just got my RC10GT back from Mike. He installed the esc, made the motor mount, made the battery box and supplied all of the parts.
Here are the before and after pics.

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r...C/100_1350.jpg

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r...C/100_1698.jpg

Link for the rest of the pics http://s142.photobucket.com/albums/r118/nastety92/RC/

I'm running a MM esc,
7S motor with RC-Monster heatsink
MaxAmps 5500mah Saddle Pack

I have a new steering steering servo that is not installed yet and the the receiver mount is temporary.
The problem I'm having at this time is the esc will not program to the receiver. When I go through the setup nothing happens. I turn the esc on, the red and green lights stay on and it only beeps as soon as I turn it on, nothing happens after?? Any idea what I might be doing wrong? All help would be greatly appreciated. While the truck was at RC-Monster Mike tested the truck with his own receiver if that makes any difference.
Also I would love to hear everyone comments about how the truck came out. I think Mike did a great job, I love the way it came out, cant wait to drive it now.

Thanks,
Nick

Can't really help you with the programming of the MM... but the rc10gt looks awesome. As always Mike does an awesome job on these conversions. Glad to see another converted st. You don't get to see these very much.

Thanks for the comments RC. The truck "looks" like a ton of fun, cant wait to get it going.

Nick

I can't tell, but if your radio is a Futaba (or Futaba-based radio) you will probably have to reverse the throttle channel.

So you have the throttle trim set to 0 (centered) and the EPA set to 100% both ways.

I'm using the stock AE radio and receiver that came with the truck when it was a nitro RTR.

Nick

I don't know how you guys have such patients on ur projects.. but the truck looks nice...

Looks like he maybe used a modified Revo mount on there to mount the motor. I bet that saved him a ton of time in the fabrication. At any rate, it looks great and be sure and let us know how it runs...preferrably with some vids! :D

OK, did you set the trim to centered and EPA to 100% (if available)? When calibrating the ESC, it needs to see a certain range of throttle throw. So, if you have the trim off center and/or EPA set funny, it might not want to calibrate.

I figure if you're gonna go through the trouble of doing all the work for a conversion, why not spend a little more time to do it right so it's pretty and functional?

Thank you very much Brian, I will try this when I get home.

Nick

This is the radio that I have, I have tried it a bunch of different ways and I'm still getting the same result. I'm sure its just me doing something wrong.

http://www.teamassociated.com/shusti.../radio/xp2.jpg
http://www.teamassociated.com/shusti...adio/index.htm

Anything else I can check or try?

Nick

I guess you could start with the obvious. Plug a servo (steering maybe?) into the throttle channel and see if you get it to turn. If so, then the signal is OK.

I know the transmitter in the picture was part of the package, but do you know if it is Futaba based? Some RTRs can come with the electronics from other manufacturers - they just put their label on it. Either way, you could try reversing the throttle channel and give it a go.

I assume you are trying to calibrate it to the ESC according to the ESC's manual...

Brian thank you very much for the help. Yes I'm going through the setup process per the manual. I can see now what needs to be done. I talked to Mike for a little while and he was helping me out on the phone. The problem is that when it tries to program the neutral setting it keeps rejecting it. I'm going to play with it a little more then try my receiver and transmitter from my stock e-maxx.
I also had my esc wiring plugged in backwards. Brown wire should of been out not in. I learn as I go, I'm sure these are newbie mistakes.

Nick

The truck finally lives. I got the stock traxxas receiver to work. The truck is pretty faster, wheelies on comand. The first time I went anywhere near full throttle it flipped on its lid and slid down the street about 100 feet, I was chasing after it in my slippers.
Thanks for the help getting it running, I appreciate it.

More pics and video to come soon.

Nick

What got it working?

Sounds like he changed to a Traxxas receiver/transmitter...

ahh I see I glazed over the post where he said he was going to switch to his traxxas tx/rx.

lol, NP. It happens to all of us.

Just so everybody knows, Airtronics builds the radios for Associated.

LOL, is that text big enough? I can't quite make it out. :)

That's nice to know though. Although, I probably won't remember that next time, and will spend about an hour trying to search the forums for this information.

Anyway, it was just an idea. I was also going to suggest opening the EPAs to as wide as they could go and then make small adjustments to the throttle trim as the next step, but since he replaced the radio already, it's a moot point.

Thanks again Brian for the help. The TX receiver/ transmitter worked very easily. I got to drive the truck again today, and I'm really impressed with it. Now I just need to get my battery charge so I can charge these batteries.

Nick

All transmitter/reciever sets on 27mhz AM, EXCEPT for airtronics, are using the same crystals. I have seen futaba Trans. and JR recievers together, Traxxas and ace (associated and thundertiger radios) together. The part about airtronics is something i heard, so not sure

No problem. It's too bad we couldn't get the stock tx/rx set to work though. The only issue with using the stock Traxxas radio is that it is AM and might be prone to interference from the BL components. If it works though, great!

I'm sure if I played with the AE receiver/ transmitter a little longer I could of got it to work. I got it to program completly but when I pushed the trigger to go forward it went backwards. After that I couldnt get it to program anymore, so I moved on to the traxxas. Right now I'm not getting any interference, if I do in the future I can always go to an upgraded receiver/ transmitter combo.

Nick

Oh! All you had to do with that is swap any two BL motor wires! That may happen no matter what you use.

I did swap the wires, but when I did that I needed to reprogram the esc again, thats when I couldnt get it to work correctly. Then I switched to the Traxxas receiver/ transmitter.
So far the TX rec/ trans has been working great. I got to drive the truck a few times today for a few minutes each. The truck is really fast, it feels like I took the stock four cylinder out and installed a big block.

Nick