Swordfish ESC's

[keithbradley]

There isnt an exchange discount. But they to warranty them or repair them for a cost. Send me a email and I will send you the return info.

Thanks for taking care of me on this Steven. Your customer service is second to none. I am glad I have found such a well ran business to spend my money at.

[bill34207]

Anyone ran into a snag with the 120 going into lvc? I ordered one for a LSO powering a SV27R motor (overkill I know) and tried it for the 1st time yesterday.
It would run about 50-100 feet then fall on it's face. Release the trigger, pull again and it would travel another 50-100 feet and do the same thing.
Timing was at auto, lvc set to soft and 12v for 4s as programmed by the pc program. Default on all other settings. Packs were 2 fully charged 4s 5000 ma hooked up as a 4s 2p setup. After getting it back to shore (just a few trigger pulls away) peeled the tape and everything was cool so it wasn't a thermal shutdown.
I have two of the 240 HV's that are working fine in 10s boats.
I'm confused.

PS: I forgot to mention that I did throttle endpoint calibration as suggested by the manual. Also if anyone has run into this and has an easy cure would love to hear it. That way I don't have to send it back to Steve.

[blackcat26]

Bill is 12v the proper setting for 4s? The nominal voltage for 4s is 14.8 and fully charged is 16.8. Maybe that has something to do with it???

[oscarel]

12V would be 3V per cell which is what's shown in the manual for 4s. Do you have a recorder to show what the voltage is when it's cutting out? Do you have another set of batteries to try?

[bill34207]

You are both absolutely correct. Not sure why the compter program reads them that way. It calls 4s at 12 volts, 5 @ 15 etc which is only 3 v per cell. I plugged it back in to the programmer earlier (to make sure nothing had changed from the setup). It was all still the same but did find an "auto" lvc setting available in it and going to give that a try as soon as I can get it back to the water.
Unless, that is, I hear from Steven that I should just send it back.

[bill34207]

12V would be 3V per cell which is what's shown in the manual for 4s. Do you have a recorder to show what the voltage is when it's cutting out? Do you have another set of batteries to try?

Actually I did try 2 different set of batteries. Same result along with smaller props.
No on board equipment to check voltages though.

[oscarel]

Last thing I can think of would be to recheck solder connections on esc.

[racer66]

I am working on building a DF 29. Have the Speedmaster 21 hardware. Peter Z. mount. Want to power it with a 540 9XL and a Swordfish 200. Want to run it with 2 Turnigy 5000 mah 2C 30C packs. I need a power card for the SW. Is it easy to set up the ESC? Will this boat fly with this set up? I know of the 180, but like the slimness of the SW. Will mount the ESC on top of my Peter Z. mount.

ESC 5.5 to motor and 8's for the batteries. My batteries have the 5.5 do I need to switch to 8s?

[ray schrauwen]

If you use good quality 5.5's you are fine, if you use the OSE versions, Castle or AM-1005 Hobby King (not the other ones they have) you should be fine.

I bought some of the other Hobby King 5.5's and they are so bad that I would barely use them on chargers.

8mm plugs would be fine too but, I don't know if you really need it since your batts can only deliver 150 amps continuous.

[sailr]

I have found with aircraft esc's made by Heifei that the auto setting for lvc works best. Might be the case with the swordfish as well.

[sailr]

Bill, does the swordfish esc have a setting anywhere that says "insensitivity"? I know on my heifei aircraft controllers there is such a setting. If you don't use that, the lvc is really too touchy!

[bill34207]

Bill, does the swordfish esc have a setting anywhere that says "insensitivity"? I know on my heifei aircraft controllers there is such a setting. If you don't use that, the lvc is really too touchy!

I'll have to plug it in again and look. I was actually looking for a "disable" setting when I found the auto.

[teamchrome]

Running a leo 4082 with a Swordfish 200 in my Geico.
Nice and cool and runs great.

[teamchrome]

What is the warranty on these?
Second run and it went POOF!!!!!!
First run was never warm ran great the water is ice cold.
Second run and it stoped and the pop.. pop.. pop.. smoke and pop. pop. smoke again.
Motor, bateries, radio, and everything is fine but the ESC poped all the caps and melted comlpetleymy entire inside is sticky and smelly.
How do I get rid of the smell?

[ray schrauwen]

Eagle One all wheel cleaner, spray in, scrub a little and wash out in the shower. It will not smell and should come completely clean. Rinse well all residue with hot water.

http://www.eagleone.com/pages/products/product.asp?itemid=1003

At any car parts store & Walmart I think.