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? >> > -- -- You are currently subscribed to the "R/C Tank Combat" group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] Visit the group at http://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R/C Tank Combat" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
