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ChrisF

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Re: Dave Milbourn's Huntsman
« Reply #25 on: January 30, 2025, 06:37:53 pm »

Certainly sounds like it as the ESC and the motor are the only things left in the equation.


You don't have another one you can try?
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Re: Dave Milbourn's Huntsman
« Reply #26 on: January 30, 2025, 09:13:08 pm »

No, this is the first boat I've ever had with a brushless motor and ESC so it's all new stuff to me.
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Re: Dave Milbourn's Huntsman
« Reply #27 on: January 30, 2025, 09:26:56 pm »

Never thought of that. They're great when they work as they should. You'll get to the bottom of it.

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Re: Dave Milbourn's Huntsman
« Reply #28 on: January 31, 2025, 10:26:27 am »

Wonder, if with Dave's expertise and knowledge of the elecrtonickery, he only intended it to go forwards?


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Re: Dave Milbourn's Huntsman
« Reply #29 on: January 31, 2025, 03:04:41 pm »

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Wonder, if with Dave's expertise and knowledge of the elecrtonickery, he only intended it to go forwards?

No, the ESC was recommended for the SLEC kit version and mention that the ESC is forward & reverse,

Just had a rummage in my workshop and actually found the program card but I never needed to use it as the defaults (including F/R) were OK. My radio for the model was a cheap Saturn 4ch set from Howes. It worked out of the box as i recall.

My later Swordsman kit has the same ESC and the radio is Specktrum TX and a generic 'Lemon' RX. Again no problems.

I use left stick for throttle and right stick for rudder.

It does suggest there may be something amiss with the ESC.

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ps: Have you used the programming card to set everything back to the defaults? (black boxes on the instructions)?

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Re: Dave Milbourn's Huntsman
« Reply #30 on: February 01, 2025, 09:18:12 am »

Sorry, I didn't realize we were discussing recommendations, I though Daves boat came with the ESC and motor already installed :embarrassed:


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Re: Dave Milbourn's Huntsman
« Reply #31 on: February 01, 2025, 10:35:14 am »

It did come with the ESC Ian, KitS is having problems getting it to work.

I had the same ESC in both my Faireys which worked fine.

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Re: Dave Milbourn's Huntsman
« Reply #32 on: Yesterday at 08:11:56 pm »

SUCCESS!  :-))


I sent the ECU back to Component Shop and asked them to have a look at it to see if I actually needed to replace it. They re-programmed it properly and it came back today.


I've put it all back in the Huntsman and it works a treat!  :-) :-))  Great work on the Shop's part.


We could be trialling the boat at Wicksteed Park tomorrow, if the weather's warm enough.
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Re: Dave Milbourn's Huntsman
« Reply #33 on: Today at 11:02:54 am »

Post photos!

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