Mystery 80 ESC

[H&MWill]

I have come to the conclusion that these are 100% pieces of junk I have sat here for the last 4 hours trying to program this worthless a** thing and nothing. It wont come off of soft start up and I am done. It is going to give me great pleasure to smash this worthless piece of crap into a million pieces. Sorry just ventin!

[andym]

Yes the chineese ones should only be purchased with setting box or they become a pain in the arse! You smash that sucker and go buy a castle, go man go!!!!
UH have some cheaper ones with good program options.

[H&MWill]

Oh dont worry I am done with cheap short cuts. I am done cuttin corners. If I dont have the extra cash at the moment I will wait. The bad thing is I know better. Oh well it is starting to snow and that is where it is laying. LOL

[ED66677]

does it play any sound when you turn it on?
if throttle is idle when turning it on you should hear a little music and then one or two bip depending if brake is on or off
if throttle is WOT when turning it on, it will play a different music and then 9 series of bips and bops as following...

1) - - - Brake On
2) -- -- -- Brake Off
3).- .- .- NiCd/NiMh
4).-- .-- .-- LiPo
5)..- ..- ..- Soft Startup
6)..-- ..-- ..-- Hard Startup
7)...- ...- ...- Soft Timing
8)...-- ...-- ...-- Hard Timing
9).... .... .... Reset to factory settings

pull the throttle to idle to validate a parameter

[H&MWill]

Thanks Ed I have went through that sooooo many times its not even close to funny. It came with those exact instructions. All of the settings will change except soft startup. I wouldnt care about it but the only way to get the boat on plane is to hand launch it and if I wanted to do that I would just go back to nitro. I am sure it is a bad unit but I will never buy another. Thanks for trying to help me out. Sincerely Will

[ED66677]

well... I have 3 of these ESC and never really noticed any difference when changing from soft to hard startup... got them for 15£ average!!!
but you are saying that you really need a hard startup to get the boat on plane???

[Rex R]

if it is a 3-point hydro, then yes it needs a hard start. anything else and it does a submarine imitation :).

[Steven Vaccaro]

I wont purchase any esc without a computer or handheld programmer. Even castle esc's can cause me a issue hear and there when trying to program with the trigger. I have a hard time with beeps, blips and pauses. Hopefully I never have to use morse code at any high rate of speed!

[H&MWill]

Yeah its a H&M Viper with stock SV motor. With mystery it does just Rex said. Im done with it. I am still hearing all the beeps and musical notes LOL.

[ED66677]

got you! throw it away!
the best one I have needs almost 1 second after WOT to have the motor spining correctly, during that time, the Mystery is trying to catch the motor rpm!!! the 2 other I have are even worth, during that second, the motor spins forward and reverse and then spins all right!!!
in any case you wont make any good with your Viper!

[Tunda]

Man i just bought one from a guy in the swap shop and just orderd 2 pixstix for it
dont tell me i just wasted 50.00 plus 14.00 for the pixstix........

[txboatpilot]

I got one to work fine after using pistix and reading this....http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_5568120/tm.htm

[Tunda]

thanks for the info...............