Which ESC's are you using?

On Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 7:58:15 PM UTC-4, Caleb Smith wrote:

> That sounds logical, and I'll look into a receiver battery, but at the 
> time I wasn't using the servo, and I burnt two ESC's without even using the 
> rotate or elevate.
>
> On Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 7:39:23 PM UTC-4, Frank Pittelli wrote:
>
>> If you were powering the "servo" from the BEC, then the servo could have 
>> easily pulled more power than the BEC was capable of providing. 
>> Usually, BECs only provide an amp or two and servos can pull more than 
>> that when trying to move a heavy load.  Most likely, your elevate servo 
>> pulled too much current and blew the BEC circuit in the ESC.  If you 
>> power the receiver and servo with a separate battery, all your systems 
>> will be happy. 
>>
>> On 4/22/2015 7:32 PM, Caleb Smith wrote: 
>> > I'm just curious if any of you guys (who know a lot more about this 
>> sort 
>> > of stuff than I do) could give a possible reason to why this is 
>> > happening, and what could have caused it? 
>>
>

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