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lots.... and LOTS of questions about my Gorgon

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JustnWynn said:
ok! no spark this time! progress!
alright.. so the esc stil went to a rapid flashing red... is this normal?
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The first thing you do after binding your Tx/Rx is calibrate the ESC. You do that yet?

And your throttle trim knob needs to be at zero before turning on the radio. Radio first, then ESC.
 
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Hopefully you can read this. From my Arrma 3s manual
 
No batteries. 🙄... thank you, wife. I got the receiver pre bound. But that does no good if THE THING doesn't HAVE BATTERIES IN IT!!
Geez! Lol.
CertifiedMike... thank you so much I'm sure I can use that. Even tho I have no idea how. I thought I was ready for all this. Lol
But I know this is just my first one.. so it's gonna take a bit to get it all down.
Wickedfog.. you too.
This community is just awesome.
As far as making sure the leads are all hooked to the right pos and neg wires properly... omg...yes. lol
I have checked about a dozen times to MAKE SURE I have this right. Mostly because I didn't want to embarras myself when I showed you all the pics of my progress 😁
In the meantime... I've asked enough ?'s for now. Time to travel to youtube university and figure out what programming and factory resetting is all about. I also still need to solder a lead on the power wire for the servo.
I will NOT be showing my solder joints BTW. To much shame. Lol. Being a welder... I kinda wanna kick my OWN butt for how ugly these joints are. But they ARE connected. Cleanly and solidly. But holy hell do they look bad!. Lol
Cheers fellas...😁👍
 
JustnWynn said:
No batteries. 🙄... thank you, wife. I got the receiver pre bound. But that does no good if THE THING doesn't HAVE BATTERIES IN IT!!
Geez! Lol.
CertifiedMike... thank you so much I'm sure I can use that. Even tho I have no idea how. I thought I was ready for all this. Lol
But I know this is just my first one.. so it's gonna take a bit to get it all down.
Wickedfog.. you too.
This community is just awesome.
As far as making sure the leads are all hooked to the right pos and neg wires properly... omg...yes. lol
I have checked about a dozen times to MAKE SURE I have this right. Mostly because I didn't want to embarras myself when I showed you all the pics of my progress 😁
In the meantime... I've asked enough ?'s for now. Time to travel to youtube university and figure out what programming and factory resetting is all about. I also still need to solder a lead on the power wire for the servo.
I will NOT be showing my solder joints BTW. To much shame. Lol. Being a welder... I kinda wanna kick my OWN butt for how ugly these joints are. But they ARE connected. Cleanly and solidly. But holy hell do they look bad!. Lol
Cheers fellas...😁👍
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Happy to help get you sorted!
Tell you what... If you teach me how to weld, I'll have you soldering stained glass windows and circuit boards that would make Sony impressed!🤣🤣🤣
Tinning your wires before you make the joint will get you much better heat transfer when you are trying to feed it solder and not have it land on your feet! 😉
Your heat will transfer from the iron to the wire through the melted solder and then to the next wire. Feed the solder between the 2 tinned wires or beside the iron directly, into the wire.
Use rosin core solder and a 60/40 with lead Its better and easier to work with. Use a thin gauge solder. Its far easier to control and less messy. Requires less heat.
If theres a way I can get the iron under the joint, I solder from below... heat rises😉
Get a decent soldering iron with temp control. THAT is a game changer!

Watch more videos about it too. Once you see a few joints done, you'll get it. Its easy after a few tries! 👍

Any luck with programming or clearing the red led?
 
WickedFog said:
Yeah, that all sounds right. But I am trying to figure why you had a spark. Higher voltage setups, like 4s and up can spark when connecting the battery. But I have never seen it on my 3s stuff. Maybe that's all it was though.
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My 3s will sometimes spark if it’s fresh off the charger and I haven’t used the car in a while
 
JustnWynn said:
Can someone provide me with a link to a fan that will fit like this other rocketfan but also good for 3s?
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Personally, I would just get another of the same fan and connect it to the receiver. That way it’s at a constant voltage of 7.4 or 6 or wtv it is. That way there is no way you can overvolt it
 
CertifiedMike said:
Happy to help get you sorted!
Tell you what... If you teach me how to weld, I'll have you soldering stained glass windows and circuit boards that would make Sony impressed!🤣🤣🤣
Tinning your wires before you make the joint will get you much better heat transfer when you are trying to feed it solder and not have it land on your feet! 😉
Your heat will transfer from the iron to the wire through the melted solder and then to the next wire. Feed the solder between the 2 tinned wires or beside the iron directly, into the wire.
Use rosin core solder and a 60/40 with lead Its better and easier to work with. Use a thin gauge solder. Its far easier to control and less messy. Requires less heat.
If theres a way I can get the iron under the joint, I solder from below... heat rises😉
Get a decent soldering iron with temp control. THAT is a game changer!

Watch more videos about it too. Once you see a few joints done, you'll get it. Its easy after a few tries! 👍

Any luck with programming or clearing the red led?
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If you lived close to me i wouldn't mind showing you at all. Feel like I've been doing it long enough that I could teach a monkey to weld. 😆
 
Lukedavis said:
Personally, I would just get another of the same fan and connect it to the receiver. That way it’s at a constant voltage of 7.4 or 6 or wtv it is. That way there is no way you can overvolt it
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Thats how I had this one hooked up as well. Thru the receiver
 
I have that same servo on my DB48, its amazing. It has the JST connector so solder on a JST into your battery plug that way it is a plug n play connection, as stated above.
I didn't read most of these replies so if this was already said then oh well. Nonetheless, good call on that servo you will like it. Its not terribly fast but super strong. Direct power is the way to go!
 
Coincidently...🙉😎🤣
So... the fan you bought isnt wrong.
Its the same fan I bought for my gorgon.
I was going to try to splice into a b.e.c. circuit for mine as well as to power my servo.
I haven't installed one yet but as I understand, you buy one that exceeds your current draw and meets your input/output voltage needs. It will accept, in your case, 2s and 3s and provide a preset output voltage regardless of input voltage. (step down not step up)
I think you were doing it right, just missed a part.
In your case, where you have direct voltage to your servo, I think you could use the pos & neg leads that you cut from your receiver and power your fan directly.
I'm still learning lipo, esc, fan, bec, servo, lighting wiring too!
Don't feel like you're the only one a bit confused! Theres a lot more than 2 wires and a switch here! 😉

As I said, I'm still learning too so if anyone has good ideas here, please tell US!!! 🤣👍
 
I thought you hsd the fan wired drect thru your butt connector splices! This is great news! It might nit be fried if thus is the case!
No need to order new stuff until we figure out whats happening here anyways.

Have you got the red light to stop?
 
Good deal! I JUST got everything kinda sorta soldered together. Got jst spliced to that.. but not plugged in just yet . Just got batteries in the rx. Got the servo hooked to the reciever....
Gonna take a smoke break... that way if I'm disappointed after I try to turn it on.. it won't hit as hard. Lol 😁 🤞
Anybody knows of anything I missed in the meantime.. lemme know
Cheers
 
JustnWynn said:
Good deal! I JUST got everything kinda sorta soldered together. Got jst spliced to that.. but not plugged in just yet . Just got batteries in the rx. Got the servo hooked to the reciever....
Gonna take a smoke break... that way if I'm disappointed after I try to turn it on.. it won't hit as hard. Lol 😁 🤞
Anybody knows of anything I missed in the meantime.. lemme know
Cheers
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In this case we'll say the smoke from you is far better than smoke from your esc! 🤣
 
Success!!.... uh... kinda. lol.
alright.. i hooked up a 2s battery.. just to see. it works.. even the fan!!!.. the servo.. does not. its getting power to it. over 8v. have not hooked up the 3s yet. wanna do one problem at a time. like what certifiedmike was saying.
any ideas fellas? i did what wickedfog said. removed the middle terminal from a reciever connector.. connected it to the 2 black wires, one with a white stripe connected to the signal and all black connected to neg on the reciever. what volts shoould i be getting out of the reciever side of the servo?
 

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