Brocken receiver

[Max]

Hi, I have just broken my receiver and I am not entirely sure how, either I shorted it by putting it in my metal robot and shorting it across the pins. Or it could be because I plugged 2 electronizers in so it could be they both tried to power the receiver giving it twice the power it needs overloading it and making it fry. Which do you think it could be?

[blazerbotics]

Re: Brocken receiver

Do both Electronize's have BECs? That wont normally blow it anyway, normally messses up the speedos/BECs. Shorting the pins is more likely it, especially if it was a signal pin. If it has blown, chances are its not worth bothering trying to get it fixed, only easy fix is if its burnt out the track on either the + or - rails (assuming its not taken anything else out).

[Max]

Re: Brocken receiver

Turns out receiver is fine! Unfortunately that means something else is broken, I hope it is not my electronizers. Do electronizers have becs?

[blazerbotics]

Re: Brocken receiver

depends if you bought the ones with BECs, if not what are your powering your RX by?

[woody]

Re: Brocken receiver

You only want to power the reciever from ONE of the Electronize controllers ...

[Max]

Re: Brocken receiver

How do I stop power coming from the other?

[woody]

Re: Brocken receiver

This is a pic from another thread.
Joining the orange and red leads turns ON the BEC ( Battery Eliminator Circuit ) .... simply disconnect one pair IF you have two Controllers with built in BEC's.

[Max]

Re: Brocken receiver

I don't think I have one with a bec, that is anoying-I will have to use my receiver battery. I wonder what happened to the receiver if there wasn't any power going to it-it definately smells of burning

[woody]

Re: Brocken receiver

The reciever definitely shouldn't smell of burning.

Just to reiterate only ONE reciever power supply is wanted.

Here's another pic showing the internal track connections of the reciever...note ALL the negatives are connected as are ALL the positives ...only the signal pins are seperate.

[Max]

Re: Brocken receiver

It could have shorted across the positive and negative pins, but if there is no bec then there would have been no power at the receiver so it couldn't short circuit

[blazerbotics]

Re: Brocken receiver

Have you actually powered it up?

[Max]

Re: Brocken receiver

I wired them up to the motors and receiver and plugged in the batteries but I was unable to control the motors and the receiver sparked and smelt of burning and got hot so I unplugged the batteries

[harry hills]

Re: Brocken receiver

did you plug them in the right way round?

[woody]

Re: Brocken receiver

Wire up the controllers to the receiver with just the yellow signal wires and the black.. NO red ... and a seperate receiver battery.

[Max]

Re: Brocken receiver

I think I plugged the batteries the right way round, I will have to check on Thursday as I left it at school. I will also bring in a receiver battery and try just plugging one in and see if that works