Swordfish ESC's

[teamchrome]

Ill try that, Thank you.
Anything to get rid of that smell.
Its like a burnt clutch.

[Rumdog]

Which esc, and what boat and setup?

[teamchrome]

Which esc, and what boat and setup?

Swordfish 200 in a Miss G.
Leo 4082, and a x 642 prop on 6s, no BEC set up with program card.
Geat runs the first time out. I ran 4 sets of batteries.
Today I ran for about 30 seconds.
No changes to the boat from the first day.

[teamchrome]

There was one change.. I put on the off set rudder set-up from Kentec.

[NORMKRIS]

[QUOTE=teamchrome;268486] I ran 4 sets of batteries.

Did you add any additional "caps". I suspect your total battery lead length from
esc. was probably to long. Refer to the Schulze Electronics website for recommendation/explanation. Caps on Swordfish are quite small. Also how were the 4 packs wired....you indicated a 6s configuration?

Norm Kris Sr.

[DISAR]

I had a 120 swordfish which failed on 6s, not burnt or melted just dead (suddenly stopped, using external battery pack). I would suggest running them on 5s max.

[oscarel]

Vinegar and hot water or "goof off" will get rid of the smell and burnt residue.

[bill34207]

Just as an update on what I was running into. Changing the LVC cutoff method to auto fixed my esc problem. Unfortunately the SV27 motor I was running it on cooked about a minute later. ESC is still good since I plugged it into another motor after getting home and it worked fine.
The motor is a different story.

[sailr]

Where did you have the timing set for the SV27 motor?

[bill34207]

I left it at auto (default)

[sailr]

that should be OK. How about the PWM?

[bill34207]

It was also left at default. Think it was like 8hz or something along that line which should have been fine for an inrunner.
The only things I changed from default settings was the cutoff method and switched it from hard to soft and the LVC voltage to auto after the 4s setting didn't work.
I think I just got a bad motor. In reality the SV27 and UL-1 motors are nothing but glorified Great Planes Ammo motors (and I've had a FEW of those and the Rimfire outrunners go bad in planes over the years). Good side is that Tower is about zero hassle for getting a warranty replacement.
I could stick my Neu 1415/1Y in it but then it wouldn't be legal for our LSO class.

[millzee]

I'm just trying to recalibrate my sf240hv and I'm following the book on how it's done although the esc keeps going into program mode, the bell's just keep ringing. The book say's to "hold full throttle and turn on esc, there are 3 beeps indicating correctly powered for the setting, then there are 4 long beeps, then I'm suppose to move the throttle to neutral and 2 beeps are suppose to follow indicating the calibration is complete. I seem to just have it starting with 4 beeps and entering the program mode, could this be bacause I've changed the LVC settings from auto to 6's. I only did a recalibration last week without any troubles and after doing that I reprogrammed the esc to increase the timing and set the LVC to 6s. Has anyone else had this trouble?

[drwayne]

Grab the USB and reset to default, then start again

btw.. what version code ?
1, 2, or 3 ?
W

[millzee]

Grab the USB and reset to default, then start again

btw.. what version code ?
1, 2, or 3 ?
W

Mate, I proved my dumbass abilities the other day when plugging into the computer when I wasn't thinking and plugged the rx battery in along with the usb, I only noticed when it wouldn't read the usb drive and a pop up on my computer said there was a malfuntion. I might try hooking it up again tonight but I think I killed the USB stick, it got a tad warm. I'm not sure which version code? I havn't upgraded it from when I got it. This afternoon I plugged the program board up and made sure I hadn't changed any settings and then tried it out with the DX3S throttle travel at 150% and it seemed to really be ballsy, a lot more than ever, can I over do the travel, should I maybe play around and start with smaller trials, eg. 120%-130%? When trying the 150% dry in the boat, I did notice things got a little warm in just a few pumps of the throttle.