hydra 240 issues...

[mschaffer66]

My buddy has a Hydra 240 in his fastech and when he plugs in the batteries it just has a fast flashing red led...cooked esc?

[mappo]

Did your buddy program the hydra for lipo cutoff voltage? if battery is set for too low a cutoff it will just blink, so reprogram.

[Steven Vaccaro]

Or its not getting a signal from the receiver.

[mschaffer66]

Yeah it was running fine then it stopped opened hatch and it was blinking nothing was even close to warm...

[mschaffer66]

It had steering though. Maybe the throttle port on rx puked?

[sailr]

How many cells you running? Did you use the BEC or onboard receiver pack. I don't think you can use the BEC with over 3S. You might have cooked the BEC.

[BakedMopar]

If you had steering the bec is fine.

[Boatman]

experience would tell me to check my motor/esc connections and I would look into the motor more than the esc.

[ncornacchi]

Every now and then, I get the same problem, steering only, blinking leds, I've had to rebind receiver and then reprogram controller and then it works fine,,,happpened a few times, almost like it forgot its programming

[FighterCat57]

My buddy has a Hydra 240 in his fastech and when he plugs in the batteries it just has a fast flashing red led...cooked esc?

Mine just sat there all retarded like that new. It looked like it was trying to arm and just dying after the first few beeps.

I held the throttle on the Tx, plugged in the ESC and viola, it came to life, did some funky beeping, Tx-> full break, some more funky beeping, then Tx -> 50% neutral.

Then unplugged- replugged and it armed, ready to go. A little odd that it doesn't make any noise or light up until it's configured.

[drwayne]

If it worked fine, then stopped..and the BEC still works aok.. Id suggest LVC.
if batts under LVC at connect, the esc will not arm ( no beeps).. a continuous flashing led suggests it's time to recharge
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[sailr]

I have had CC controllers 'lose' the throttle endpoint settings and do the same thing. Plug in the batt, hold full throttle until you get a series of beeps. Go to full brake, another series of beeps. Now it should arm.