Revo No Go

[radome]

I am new to RC Bashing but have a fair amount of mechanical knowledge. My revo 3.3 2.4 runs fine. I seem to have lost my throttle. It turns fine and goes in and out of reverse fine. I have reprogrammed the Optidrive which didn't help. I have fresh batteries in the transmitter and the receiver battery is peak charged.

I started the engine, set the truck down and hit the throttle. The truck took off for a second, then no throttle response.

I am new to this forum and am soo glad I found you guys. I am hoping there is someone out there that has had experience with this problem. The truck is less than a year old and is a ton of fun but somewhat of a money pit.

Any help with this problem is appreciated.


See ya,



Radome

 

[Raiden101]

I was having a similar problem a couple of months ago.

It ended up being a bad throttle servo. Even thought it worked fine when it was off, it would pulse when I started it.

You can test if this is it by pulling a steering servo and putting in the throttle spot

 

[radome]

Thanks Raiden 101. I will give it a try and let you know

 

[olds97_lss]

Or, to make sure, you can plug the throttle servo into the steering port on the reciever to check the servo. If the servo doesn't move, it's bad. Then plug a steering servo into the throttle port then move the throttle. If the steering servo moves, then the receiver is good.

If the servo is bad, I'd recommend a stronger than stock servo for t/b duties. A stronger servo will last longer due to the heavy braking demands of an MT.

 

[radome]

Thanks, Guys. I think I have enough info to troubleshoot this problem thoroughly.

See ya,

Radome