Hi all. New here and new to electric boats. Wondering if you guys can tell me if I hooked something up wrong or not. Sorry I don't know all the correct terminology but I'll do the best I can with the little I know.
I just got this used boat pretty much all set up, minus batteries and reciever. I bought new batteries and reciever but when I started plugging things in, things went bad.
I started by plugging in the small battery pack to the recievers power port. Then I plugged in the jumper wire to the bind port and bound the transmitter to the reciever, then removed jumper. Then I plugged in the steering servo to channel 1 on reciever and checked steering opperation. All seemed good so far.
This is where things go bad.
Next I plugged in what I THINK was the speed control wire from the esc to channel 2 port on the reciever. The speed control wires then quickly started to MELT! I quickly unplugged the battery but the damage was done. Below are a couple of pictures of the wires I am referring to. They are the wires with the blue heat shrink wrap. The reason there is shrink wrap on them now is because I replaced the melted section with a spare section (white to white, red to red and black to black). I have not tried to plug it in again yet. Wondering if I plugged in the wrong wires, or.....?
Also, after the the melt down, I plugged in the steering servo wires to channel 2 port on the reciever and the steering works with the throttle on the transmitter. So I believe the reciever is fine.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Edit: Power switch on ESC was "OFF" entire time.
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