Heliman450
Well-Known Member
Hi all, I came upon this issue along my way with a second hand T-Rex 550E V2 I bought and probably can be used as an example of what can happen when taking over the 'mistakes' made by others. For mistakes read 'other ways of thinking'. The previous owner (or possibly the builder on his behalf) decided to fit a separate BEC with power from a 2S. The positive lead was cut off to give the single power supply.
I left this as was and used it in my new installation with a Spirit Pro gyro. Now that the heli has completed a successful first hover test, I turned my attention to the ESC and found the set-up process on page 32 of the instructions. As my installation isn't the standard Align parts, I needed to find out what sequence would work to enable me to reprogramme the ESC. As the process tells one to put the Tx. collective to maximum the most obvious first step was to remove the main rotor blades to be on the safe side! So now for the problem............
The ESC won't reprogramme, it enters the set-up mode but will not step through the process as described. At the moment, I'm assuming this is due to the missing positive cable and separate power supply. This leaves the ESC locked into the currently programmed set-up.
No big worries, it does work, but if anyone can think of an alternative reason why this might be or wants to take up the challenge of working at this I'll gladly share the experience.
Bye now!
I left this as was and used it in my new installation with a Spirit Pro gyro. Now that the heli has completed a successful first hover test, I turned my attention to the ESC and found the set-up process on page 32 of the instructions. As my installation isn't the standard Align parts, I needed to find out what sequence would work to enable me to reprogramme the ESC. As the process tells one to put the Tx. collective to maximum the most obvious first step was to remove the main rotor blades to be on the safe side! So now for the problem............
The ESC won't reprogramme, it enters the set-up mode but will not step through the process as described. At the moment, I'm assuming this is due to the missing positive cable and separate power supply. This leaves the ESC locked into the currently programmed set-up.
No big worries, it does work, but if anyone can think of an alternative reason why this might be or wants to take up the challenge of working at this I'll gladly share the experience.
Bye now!