I was helping a local kid with is 1/8 E buggy today...
his setup
losi 8, MM, 4s, CC bec, NEU 1512 3.5d
He fried or striping servos after less then 3min of running(I made sure the EPAs were correct)
I wanted to check the voltage that the CC bec was set at, so I plugged in the castle link, plugged it into my laptop, and nothing except the yellow flashing light on the MM
so I read the "trouble shooting" part of the intro screen to see why it wont initialize properly.
Castle claims that the USB port can't supply the amps to power up the CCbec and MM, understandable....
as a solution Castle suggests that you plug in a batt to the esc, so I give that a try, BAD IDEA
my laptop shuts down/black screens instantly and won't reboot past the windows loading screen, before restarting.
after 3hrs of fighting with it, I narrow it down the the windows section of my HD is corrupted, I tried EVERYTHING I could to not have to reinstall windows, but it still needed to be reinstalled/ and the boot section of the HD reformatted...
I am not a noob when It comes to computers/RC but I still don't get WTF happened and I'm VERY POed that I have to reinstall windows and sit through 6hrs of updates
