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Bad throttle servo... Mabye

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GusMax86

GusMax86

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I think that I have been very lucky in my time enjoying my RC vehilces because I have never had any problems with servos or radio recivers or transmitters... I have recently spoke up on a problem that I had with my throttle servo not responding while everything else was working fine, this was accompanied by a red light on the opti drive. I was bashing around today and the servo went from working fine to having NO response. Batterys all fully charge, the servo dosn't try to reset itself when turning the truck on and the shifting servo is also totaly unresponsive. No more red light from the opti drive. Any Ideas before I start replacing things that I don't need to?
 
First bypass the OptiDrive or ditch it all together. If that doesn't do it then at least you eliminated that as a problem and can then look at the receiver and the servos.

Good luck my friend!
 
Well thats what I get for being afraid to touch the opti drive. I finally said screw it and all my troubles are over. I bypassed the opti drive and took it out of the truck. I don't think I'm ever going to put it back in.
 
GusMax86 said:
Well thats what I get for being afraid to touch the opti drive. I finally said screw it and all my troubles are over. I bypassed the opti drive and took it out of the truck. I don't think I'm ever going to put it back in.
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Life without Opti-Drive = Happiness. :D
Glad to hear it's acting correctly for ya again! Now go break something.
 

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