So I've just got back from a very frustrating bash session due to a misbehaving ESC which has been occurring now for the last 2 sessions.
Essentially the Torox keeps resetting itself.
This mostly happens if I stop completely, no inputs on the transmitter at all.
I then pump all the controls and eventually it'll do it's cell count beeps and (possibly) I can continue.
There are times where it is literally sat there for minutes stuck in a reset loop whilst I desperately trying to get it moving with no success.
Sometimes it fails completely and I have to do a hard reset by pulling the battery and replugging it to get it to shift.
Whilst it mostly occurs whilst stationery, it has also happened once or twice whilst the car is moving. The ESC has cut out so I lose drive completely but I still have full control over the servo.
This happens right off the bat and all the way through the entire session so I know for a fact that it's not thermal cut-off; since it happens very regularly, I cannot run long enough continuously to get the motor/ESC hot at all.....
I'm fairly sure it's not battery related since I have tried multiple batteries and they all exhibit the same behaviour.
I've tried diagnosing this issue with the body off to watch the status LEDs on the ESC. When this behaviour occurs, the red light comes on followed by the green flashes counting the cells in the lipo.
I dunno if it is related or not but my power button also doesn't seem to work for the most part. I have to rely on pulling the plug to stop the ESC.
I have also checked over the cables and everything looks as it should. I was potentially thinking that it was a radio issue and the ESC was going into fail-safe? However, I am never far enough away to trigger a range issue and the aerial is correctly positioned and looks fine along with it's cables. I thought that potentially water may have gotten into the radio box. I have just had that off and there is a tiny amount of water as suspected but only a micro puddle in the bottom of the tray, nothing around the terminals so I doubt that is the issue.
I'm a bit stumped as to what to try next? Perhaps a factory reset on the ESC and go through the re-binding procedure to ensure that all the endpoints are correct perhaps?
Essentially the Torox keeps resetting itself.
This mostly happens if I stop completely, no inputs on the transmitter at all.
I then pump all the controls and eventually it'll do it's cell count beeps and (possibly) I can continue.
There are times where it is literally sat there for minutes stuck in a reset loop whilst I desperately trying to get it moving with no success.
Sometimes it fails completely and I have to do a hard reset by pulling the battery and replugging it to get it to shift.
Whilst it mostly occurs whilst stationery, it has also happened once or twice whilst the car is moving. The ESC has cut out so I lose drive completely but I still have full control over the servo.
This happens right off the bat and all the way through the entire session so I know for a fact that it's not thermal cut-off; since it happens very regularly, I cannot run long enough continuously to get the motor/ESC hot at all.....
I'm fairly sure it's not battery related since I have tried multiple batteries and they all exhibit the same behaviour.
I've tried diagnosing this issue with the body off to watch the status LEDs on the ESC. When this behaviour occurs, the red light comes on followed by the green flashes counting the cells in the lipo.
I dunno if it is related or not but my power button also doesn't seem to work for the most part. I have to rely on pulling the plug to stop the ESC.
I have also checked over the cables and everything looks as it should. I was potentially thinking that it was a radio issue and the ESC was going into fail-safe? However, I am never far enough away to trigger a range issue and the aerial is correctly positioned and looks fine along with it's cables. I thought that potentially water may have gotten into the radio box. I have just had that off and there is a tiny amount of water as suspected but only a micro puddle in the bottom of the tray, nothing around the terminals so I doubt that is the issue.
I'm a bit stumped as to what to try next? Perhaps a factory reset on the ESC and go through the re-binding procedure to ensure that all the endpoints are correct perhaps?