brushless 1/5 4wd conversion about to begin! couple questions.

[Metallover]

Have you tried programmin it yet? Do you get any leds at all? Are you trying a full 10s now?

That would be horribly bad luck to have a doa. Listen to the song DOA by the Hunted to vent your frustrations.

[Ryu James]

Originally Posted by Metallover

Have you tried programmin it yet? Do you get any leds at all? Are you trying a full 10s now?

That would be horribly bad luck to have a doa. Listen to the song DOA by the Hunted to vent your frustrations.

i havent been able to program it cuz it wont even turn on. it doesnt have a port for hookup to CastleLink...at least not one that i can see. i think it can only be programmed via the transmitter.

i tried hooking up 10s and still nothing. with 5s a small red led blinks 1 time right when i plug it in but thats it. when i hooked up 10s i didnt notice if the red led blinked or not. it doesnt beep or anything and the light on my spektrum rx doesnt light up so i know something isnt right. the rx is fine too cuz i checked it with a MMM.

anyway, i have no idea what is wrong. it must just be a faulty esc.

i am just re-reading the instructions and it says one of the features it has is a
"Safe Power ON" arming program to help prevent motor from accidentally turning on. but ut doesnt say anything about how it works or what to do. just says to connect a battery safely.

for troubleshooting it says if the symptom is nothing working at all to check all connections, check polarity and if that doesnt fix it then contact Castle Tech support. i am certain that everything is connected how it should be and i made sure to hook it all up right cuz i didnt want to fry a $400 esc. it never acted like it got fried or anything. it simply has done nothing other than a 1 second red led blink from the first hookup.

so damn frustrating. and i havent heard back from castle yet after sending emails and leaving messages. hope to hear back soon.

Originally Posted by Ryu James

i havent been able to program it cuz it wont even turn on. it doesnt have a port for hookup to CastleLink...at least not one that i can see. i think it can only be programmed via the transmitter.

Your supposed to use the Castle Link adapter that plugs into the servo plug on the ESC, connect it to the battery and then try and program it.

[Ryu James]

Originally Posted by Bad Karma

Your supposed to use the Castle Link adapter that plugs into the servo plug on the ESC, connect it to the battery and then try and program it.

yeah, i have been working on trying to use castlelink to see if the esc works and still nothing. castlelink says that the hv series controllers need to be hooked up to at least a 12v battery to be able to program. so i hooked up the batter and connected the esc to castlelink and still nothing. castlelink doesnt even recognize it. it just gives me an error saying nothing is connected. so i tried my MMM with castlelink to make sure everything was working and i was able to program my MMM no problem. there is definitely something wrong with this controller.