Slash Issues

[General Lee]

Just picked up a brushless 2wd slash. Ran great for about 2 days. Yesterday I bashed with it around a little, took the battery out to charge slowly at 1A and about 2 and half hrs later my lipo charger beeps telling me its charged.

I took the battery off the chrger, connected it to the slash, turned on the SC, wiggled my wheels left and right, squeezed the trigger and nothing. No forward no reverse, no slash hehe.

What's the happs?

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[slowngreen]

You have steering? or no? If you do, then it could be a lose motor wire or connection at the esc.

 

[General Lee]

I got steering.

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[slowngreen]

Check all your motor connections at the motor/esc/reciever. Is this a brushed motor or brushless setup? If all those check out ok, check to see if your trim on your radio get moved and try moving it down some, if its to high the esc might not arm if the trim is high enough to let the throttle be on.

 

[General Lee]

Its a brushless. Checked all the connections already, they seem to be good. Have not checked the throttle trim. If a SC goes out will the green light still come on?

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[slowngreen]

What esc is it?

 

[General Lee]

Nope still nothing...checked trim. I got steering but no go. Velineon.

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[Metalhead Matt]

Play with the trim, and if that doesn't work, center the trim and reprogram the esc.

 

[General Lee]

Yeah I'm new to the electric world...no idea how id go about reprogramming the SC.

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[slowngreen]

Go down to where the link to download the owners manual is and download it, it should have the step by step programming in it.

http://www.traxxas.com/products/accessories/trx_accessories_vxl3s.htm

I can't think of it off the top of my head to tell you how to program it. But like said before, adjust your throttle trim on the radio. You might turn it all on then slowly adjust the trim down, slowly, and hopefully it will arm when it hits the nuetral spot.

 

[Racer 1966]

What radio are you using? We have some problems with our Velineon system using the Traxxas TQ controller. Trim has to be turned all the off(left) to work. Centered does not work.

 

[General Lee]

I am using the TQ and I tried adjusting the trim any way possible and nothing.

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[Racer 1966]

What color is the LED on the ESC and is it blinking or solid? Are your batteries in the transmitter good? For us it seems worse when the batteries start getting low but the LED on transmitter shows to be still good.

 

[General Lee]

The color is blue, solid. I saw it blinking a couple of times the last time it was running.

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[Racer 1966]

BLUE?!?! What ESC are you using? The Vileneon in the Slash should be the 3S,only uses red and green LEDs. I don't know what blue is.

 

[General Lee]

Sorry dude. Green it is.

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[Racer 1966]

Hmmm....may have an ESC problem. Solid green should be good to go. Blinking green is the trim issue. You may want to give Traxxas tech support a call.

 

[General Lee]

Yeah its solid green alright. I tried replacing the batteries, tried replacing crystals, tried messing with the throttle trim and still no go. Maybe re programming the esc would work???

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[General Lee]

So I'm assuming at this point you guys would recommend to replace the sc?

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[Racer 1966]

I'd call Traxxas first. Did you try reprogramming?