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08-29-2004, 02:29 PM
This might be best directed to Charles S, but someone else might have had this happen so...
Yesterday I was running my bl rs4 mt on my off road track, I was going up the jumps slowly to see how well it could slowly climb, after about 5 mins it stopped, I thought it was just the thermal overload and though nothing of it, but then saw little wisps of smoke comming out of the cut-out windshild of the body. I went over and ripped off the body, and saw the esc was smoking I disconnected the battery and turned of the esc,it was still smoking, light grey smoke, not much and after about 10 seconds it stopped. I took the car inside and and turned on the air compressor and blew the esc's cooling fins until the were just a little warm, next I checkout the motor, by then it had cooled off.
I pluged in the battery and turned on the radio and esc and pulled the throttle, nothing happend, by then I'm thinking, "200 down the drain". I tried reverse and it worked, then tried foward again and it studdered until it hit about 1/2 throttle, went back into reverse and it didnt work, blue and green lights blinking, locked rotor?? It was on a flat surface with nothing binding at all. Tried foward, same result. Took out the motor and took apart to look for anthing inside that would loke the rotor, nothing. I tried with the motor out, same thing as in the car. By the way, sometimes it worked fine.
Looked at troubleshooting guide, under "throttle glitching under accel.." Checked for loose conections, cleaned solder tabs with rc cleaner, checked capicator, nothing wrong with it. Next tried motor again, guess what? It didn't work :p Ok, Looked at trouble shooting guide again under "steering works but motor does not" checked off everything to look for. Tried motor again, same thing. Then I give up and started writing this. :)
My gearing is 96/22. Oh, almost forgot, when I took apart the motor (before this happened) I lost the little washer, I still have the brass sleeve. I think it had a washer to begin with, not totaly sure though. If it did have this washer, is it really nessecery?
Yesterday I was running my bl rs4 mt on my off road track, I was going up the jumps slowly to see how well it could slowly climb, after about 5 mins it stopped, I thought it was just the thermal overload and though nothing of it, but then saw little wisps of smoke comming out of the cut-out windshild of the body. I went over and ripped off the body, and saw the esc was smoking I disconnected the battery and turned of the esc,it was still smoking, light grey smoke, not much and after about 10 seconds it stopped. I took the car inside and and turned on the air compressor and blew the esc's cooling fins until the were just a little warm, next I checkout the motor, by then it had cooled off.
I pluged in the battery and turned on the radio and esc and pulled the throttle, nothing happend, by then I'm thinking, "200 down the drain". I tried reverse and it worked, then tried foward again and it studdered until it hit about 1/2 throttle, went back into reverse and it didnt work, blue and green lights blinking, locked rotor?? It was on a flat surface with nothing binding at all. Tried foward, same result. Took out the motor and took apart to look for anthing inside that would loke the rotor, nothing. I tried with the motor out, same thing as in the car. By the way, sometimes it worked fine.
Looked at troubleshooting guide, under "throttle glitching under accel.." Checked for loose conections, cleaned solder tabs with rc cleaner, checked capicator, nothing wrong with it. Next tried motor again, guess what? It didn't work :p Ok, Looked at trouble shooting guide again under "steering works but motor does not" checked off everything to look for. Tried motor again, same thing. Then I give up and started writing this. :)
My gearing is 96/22. Oh, almost forgot, when I took apart the motor (before this happened) I lost the little washer, I still have the brass sleeve. I think it had a washer to begin with, not totaly sure though. If it did have this washer, is it really nessecery?