Power Issues

[PJ-27]

Re: Power Issues

I have the red black and white leads from each esc connected to the RX and then the yellow and orange wires from teh BEC connected to the battery input of the RX. In your diagram one of the BEC's has the yellow and orange leads connected together.

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: Power Issues

You don't need to plug your yellow/orange BEC wires into the receiver. Just join one pair of them together and leave them like that. This activates the BEC function on the speed controller (just think of it as a jumper that uses wires instead of a little black connector) The 5V supply that provides the power to your receiver is then supplied to the receiver through the standard red/black/white RC connection cable from the speed controller.

[PJ-27]

Re: Power Issues

Really! How strange............ Ok, well I hope my RX is intelligent enough to take power from one of the output ports...... Strikes me as a very odd design, but does answer a few things....

So I'll try that then. Is it likely that, that will have something to do with only 5v coming from the motor leads?

[woody]

Re: Power Issues

Ok, well I hope my RX is intelligent enough to take power from one of the output ports

The negative pins on your RX are all joined to a common rail ..likewise the positive pins are also on a common rail.

The signal pins are however seperate.[attachment=0:fxaljwyq]Bz78636.jpg[/attachment:fxaljwyq]

As per my drawing you only want one positive and one negative from your controller/s to the receiver....and both whites ( shown/drawn as yellow in my pic )

[PJ-27]

Re: Power Issues

Right! I get it now! Thanks everyone.

Ok well Ill have a change around and get everything wired as it should be.

I'll see if this helps the low output from the ESC. Process of elimination, one thing at a time.......

[jonophilpott]

Re: Power Issues

Your not using the AR6000 RX are you??

[joey_picus]

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The BR6000 and the AR6000 are virtually the same inside apart from software I believe, so I don't think it makes any difference which one you use in a diagram.

[jonophilpott]

Re: Power Issues

Apart from one Failsafes Correctly when signal is lost and one just keeps going flipping mental... YES YES i found out the hard way lol. i just wondered if he knew that issue thats all

[PJ-27]

Re: Power Issues

For the mean time we are just using an old 27mhz RX, but I'm sure it will work on a common rail.

[PJ-27]

Re: Power Issues

Eureka!!

I after a few hours tweaking tonight we finally got it working. Was a combination of the mix up with the BEC, settings on the ESC and the batteries. Having changed all those things it runs really well!

Thanks to all those that helped.