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Got my twin aeromarine cat two neu 1521 1y motors 2 castle hv 200 esc's using a 10 amp castle bec. 6s batteries went to plug in batteries and bec blew up now neither esc's or the steering servo will work when i hooked a seperate battery pack to the rx. I also tried to hook esc;s to my castle link and it says no controller hooked up. Seems to me i ruined both esc;s and servo, but the rx is still good because i hooked it to another servo and it worked fine. All this after i got another hv 200 wet and fried it, whats up with that ?
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The 200HV's don't have a BEC.....were you using an aftermarket BEC?Grand River Marine Modellers
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Yeah Doby, it sounds like he had a 10amp castle bec wired into the batteries to then supply power to the receiver and servo's. Wondering if he got too much power to the receiver and burned up the servo and the wire that goes back to the ESC.
I had something similar happen to what he was describing. I had the same set up(different brand BEC) because I do not want to mess with battery packs. Only, what I did is accidently plug the wire that was soldered to the battery directly into the receiver and blew up the receiver, servo and fried the wire going back to the ESC. It is easy to do as the BEC has one plug that goes to the power and the other that goes to receiver. In my case I accidently bypassed the entire BEC and put a 6s battery with full voltage back to the receiver.
Hmm. come to the think of it, it is possible to plug the power into the BEC backwards as there are two sets of wires. One that goes to the battery and one that goes out to the receiver. If you get those two wires going plugged in the wrong way that might do it also? With the BEC I have the plug with two wires goes to the battery and the plug that has three wires goes to the receiver. Capacitors are +/- sensitive right? I think if you get it backwards you can blow up the capacitor correct? Not sure about that.
Not sure if that helps any. Just thinking out loud as it seems too much voltage went through the receiver and then it burned the servo and controller wire back to the esc.
The BEC I am using is the high voltage one towards the bottom of this page.. http://www.kintecracing.com/Electrical.html
I just did this about a week ago so it very fresh in my mind. At that point you leave the room and don't come back for a day or two after you regroup.Last edited by electric; 07-08-2014, 10:39 PM.Comment
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I was looking at the specs on the BEC used and they are as follows:
Output Voltage:
Output 5.1 volts out of the package, user may set output voltage from 4.8 to 9 using the Castle Link (sold separately).
Input Voltage: 5v to 25.2v (2S to 6S LiPo)
IF the BEC blew up, maybe a serial connection occurred and you got 12s rather than 6s as thought? Or maybe the output voltage was set to "9". Or maybe a defective BEC?
Sorry you lost all of that equipment.Comment
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this was not the first time i ran this boat, the castle bec was set at 6v with my castle link and there is 2 wires that are soldered to one 6s lipo 1 pos. 1 neg. the other end has a plug that goes to the rx to power my servo. I also opened up one of the hv 200 esc to look see and there were no smoke or burn spots anywhere, wires look good to the controll board. I just don't get it ive got a bec wet before and it burnt up but ruined nothing else, also why did my rx not crap out, thanks to everyone that replysComment
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This is why I simplified my Bec situation to using a 7.4V 2S lipo and I wire a UBEC or SBEC in front of the on/off switch for the Rx. Never had a problem. I just hate extra wires coming off my main batteries or esc. Sorry if you lost some nice equipment but, try the KISS method, it works for me.
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you probably got a couple drops of water in the esc. these esc's seem to be super water sensitive. Mine was.32" carbon rivercat single 4s 102mph, 27” mini Rivercat 92mph, kbb34 91mph, jessej micro cat(too fast) wasComment
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A good spray with CorrosionX before ever running the ESC does wonders. Why folks refuse to do this is beyond me. I blew my rigger off at 70 mph and the hatch popped off, the boat was floating vertically sponson tips up, the tub completely flooded. After taking it out and letting it dry for a few days, the Castle ICE200 worked perfectly. In fact that was six months ago and the same ESC is still rocking. BTW I do not recommend this kind of test.....
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Do you have another Castle ESC to try with the link? I have got my 240 minorly wet where it would stutter the motor. I let it dry for a week and reset default parameters (then where I wanted it)on it and it still rocks today.
Try rebinding the Rx if applicable, have had this issue before. Stubborn Rx
Now the servo, that one gets me. They will usually do something.Comment
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This might have been it. I usually spray, drip dry over night at least or break out the blow dryer to rush it along. Not sure on this, but I do remember Tony(propperchopper) mentioning in a thread where he sprayed corrosion x and then went to power right after that and it blew up the esc.Comment
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