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Tekin RS wont go into calibration mode need help! Race in 3 hrs LOL!

Tekin RS wont go into calibration mode need help! Race in 3 hrs LOL!

Old 12-21-2011, 02:41 PM
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Default Tekin RS wont go into calibration mode need help! Race in 3 hrs LOL!

Brand new RS. Spectrum rx . When I power up I get a few flashes of all the led on esc...then nothing. I have tried 6.5 v direct (On 1s boosted normally). Steering works fine. Tries 2 rx's. Tried reversing t channel.

When I hold down the mode button to calibrate....its unresponsive!

What am I doing wrong here!

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Old 12-21-2011, 03:13 PM
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You try their tech support line? (208) 634-5559
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You need a booster or a receiver pack the esc does not have enough voltage to power up. If you have a booster or receiver pack it is wired wrong.
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Originally Posted by Wall Banger
You need a booster or a receiver pack the esc does not have enough voltage to power up. If you have a booster or receiver pack it is wired wrong.
I have a novak booster. however I think I eliminated this possibilty by powering up the esc with a 6.5v batt, and leaving the booster off.
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What kind of radio are you using? I had something like this happen to me. Turns out my radio couldn't find nuetral/center, making the esc not able to read nuetral and wouldn't calibrate. You can try 2 things. If you have another car/truck, try re-calibrating that esc to the radio and see if it gives the same problem. If you don't have another car/truck/esc, then while calibrating your Tekin and it gets to the part that it's not responding start to give it small incriments of throttle, with a couple of seconds inbetween each incriment. Try it in reverse as well as forward. This is what happened with me and had to ditch the Futaba 3PKS for a 4PL.
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Try reversing the throttle direction on the transmitter .. then calibrate. Hade a similar issue with the Tekin and KO Radio.
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Originally Posted by glinx111
What kind of radio are you using? I had something like this happen to me. Turns out my radio couldn't find nuetral/center, making the esc not able to read nuetral and wouldn't calibrate. You can try 2 things. If you have another car/truck, try re-calibrating that esc to the radio and see if it gives the same problem. If you don't have another car/truck/esc, then while calibrating your Tekin and it gets to the part that it's not responding start to give it small incriments of throttle, with a couple of seconds inbetween each incriment. Try it in reverse as well as forward. This is what happened with me and had to ditch the Futaba 3PKS for a 4PL.
Interesting I will try this right now!
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Originally Posted by ByteStream
Try reversing the throttle direction on the transmitter .. then calibrate. Hade a similar issue with the Tekin and KO Radio.
Thankyou....no luck.

I look forward to racing at the corrc track soon if I can ever get this esc to boot
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Originally Posted by glinx111
What kind of radio are you using? I had something like this happen to me. Turns out my radio couldn't find nuetral/center, making the esc not able to read nuetral and wouldn't calibrate. You can try 2 things. If you have another car/truck, try re-calibrating that esc to the radio and see if it gives the same problem. If you don't have another car/truck/esc, then while calibrating your Tekin and it gets to the part that it's not responding start to give it small incriments of throttle, with a couple of seconds inbetween each incriment. Try it in reverse as well as forward. This is what happened with me and had to ditch the Futaba 3PKS for a 4PL.
caraaap, no luck but thankyou for the help!
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have you bound the new reciever to the radio already?
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At this point I would:

Reinstall the 212 software.
Reset my radio settings to default.
Re-bind the Rx
Plug in a 2s lipo
Try to calibrate again.

If I remember correctly, once you hit the mode button for 3 seconds it should beep .. find nuetral by itself .. beep .. you hit full throttle .. beep .. you hit full brake.

Is it doing any of that (beeping)?
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Originally Posted by glinx111
What kind of radio are you using? I had something like this happen to me. Turns out my radio couldn't find nuetral/center, making the esc not able to read nuetral and wouldn't calibrate. You can try 2 things. If you have another car/truck, try re-calibrating that esc to the radio and see if it gives the same problem. If you don't have another car/truck/esc, then while calibrating your Tekin and it gets to the part that it's not responding start to give it small incriments of throttle, with a couple of seconds inbetween each incriment. Try it in reverse as well as forward. This is what happened with me and had to ditch the Futaba 3PKS for a 4PL.
That would be a good excuse to tell the wife why you need a new radio... But in reality you could adjust the neutral width.
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Guys, first off thanks for all the help. I ran down to the track and asked a few guys with more experience to look it over. It all checked out, but the racer helping me decided to try reloading my firmware. BOOM!!!! power!!! Sweet!!! I see this was also Byte stream's thought, well that was it!!!!

So again thanks for the help!!!!
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