Can somebody help me here?
I bought a Fiberglass RTR boat with a brushed motor, an inclusive esc, 27mhz AM radio and receiver etc. It works fine and I programmed the esc first time out. I also have another boat that's just minus an ESC, so I unplugged the one I have and set it up in the 2nd boat, this boat uses a Futaba 27mhz AM receiver, so I thought there'd be no problems in programming the ESC to work in there.
Wrong.
The ESC will simply not program regardless of how the Tx is set up, I've swapped channels, reversed servos, crossed my fingers and said 3 hail Marys but the ESC is simply not responding to the receiver (The rudder works fine)
The instructions say to depress the micro switch with the throttle at neutral, the esc flashes, then you put it on full throttle and depress the micro switch again, the esc OUGHT to flash then the red led should stay solid, which it does on the original boat, but not on this Futaba receiver, the led will flash for as long as you have the micro switch pressed down, but that's it, it just flashes and does absolutely nothing. So is it possible that this ESC is factory matched to the receiver and won't work with anything else? All Chinese I suspect.....
Thanks for any help
Nige