Tekin RS ESC sensored
02-14-2010, 06:08 PM
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Well I had a 7.5 and a new 10.5 Ballistic motors hooked to it and that Orion was a new10.5 not mine that smoked changing everything on the car trying to get that esc to work right.
02-14-2010, 06:15 PM
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Try an other motor of a club member. Not a new one but a motor from an other Tekin driver and try that motor.
With the Orion motor it worked for a 1/2 lap so the speedo is I think ok but that motor wasn't.
I have a Speedpassion V3 13,5T and I smoked it in a meter. I drove away and it just broke. The magnet broke. An other driver drove with a Speedpassion and after 3 lipo's his motor went down.
I think that there was a problem with the motors because others with the same setup and motor have no problem.
Both motors were new.
02-14-2010, 06:32 PM
It's strange. Did you contact Tekin already?
Try an other motor of a club member. Not a new one but a motor from an other Tekin driver and try that motor.
With the Orion motor it worked for a 1/2 lap so the speedo is I think ok but that motor wasn't.
I have a Speedpassion V3 13,5T and I smoked it in a meter. I drove away and it just broke. The magnet broke. An other driver drove with a Speedpassion and after 3 lipo's his motor went down.
I think that there was a problem with the motors because others with the same setup and motor have no problem.
Both motors were new.
Try an other motor of a club member. Not a new one but a motor from an other Tekin driver and try that motor.
With the Orion motor it worked for a 1/2 lap so the speedo is I think ok but that motor wasn't.
I have a Speedpassion V3 13,5T and I smoked it in a meter. I drove away and it just broke. The magnet broke. An other driver drove with a Speedpassion and after 3 lipo's his motor went down.
I think that there was a problem with the motors because others with the same setup and motor have no problem.
Both motors were new.
3 people at my local track (1 being me) had motor issues with a Tekin on v203. Turned out to be a serveo issue. Putting in a Futaba servo fixed the problems. We each had different brands of servos each not being a futaba at first. Im not sure why this is, I am just relaying problems I've seen with the solution.
02-14-2010, 06:41 PM
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How do you know your motor burned up?
3 people at my local track (1 being me) had motor issues with a Tekin on v203. Turned out to be a serveo issue. Putting in a Futaba servo fixed the problems. We each had different brands of servos each not being a futaba at first. Im not sure why this is, I am just relaying problems I've seen with the solution.
3 people at my local track (1 being me) had motor issues with a Tekin on v203. Turned out to be a serveo issue. Putting in a Futaba servo fixed the problems. We each had different brands of servos each not being a futaba at first. Im not sure why this is, I am just relaying problems I've seen with the solution.
How is that posible? Does it pull to much from the receiver?
02-14-2010, 06:42 PM
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02-14-2010, 06:47 PM
That's what Im guessing. I was scratching my head when a fellow racer suggested it when I was having problems. When I hit the throttle with the car in the air, it works fine. Put the car on the ground and hit the throttle and I get a grinding noise. Change the servo and the car runs great.
02-14-2010, 06:48 PM
Remove the front endbell, inspect the solder plate. If you had too much timing too soon and or overgeared you might have melted this out. Good thing is that you can clean it all out, reflow the joints and the motor will be just fine.
02-14-2010, 06:49 PM
02-14-2010, 06:54 PM
JPMSracing-After reading this problem from the begining I'm at a loss of what the problem could be. As for the smoked motor what was the timing of the motor set at. With what you can do setting wise with the speedo it's important to know "ALL" your setting even when borrowing another motor. This may just be a bad unit. Randy is the guy that can shed a little more light as he knows the speedo inside and out. You didn't make a bad choice in speedo's. Everyone here is trying to help the best they can. You had a rough time the first time out but once we get to the bottom of your problem, your 2nd time will be great. Have you contacted Tekin yet? Give us a chance to make you happy again. It might be something simple if the unit isn't defective and if that's the case we all will feel stupid that we over looked it
02-14-2010, 06:58 PM
It's the motor! The new Orion motors have a lot of timing already built in. On top of that it appears their sensors are causing some issues. Try another motor(not orion).
02-14-2010, 07:09 PM
I sent my speedo in for repair for the same reasons others have posted. I think the sensor board when out on mine. I run for Orion and had used been using the new software for about two weeks before issues started. I thought it was just some bad luck.
I might have a bad sensor in the motor too; is it possible for a bad motor sensor to take out the speedo? I borrowed another RS speedo and now cant run over 30 deg of timing with the motor timing full clock wise. Temps were just too high.
I might have a bad sensor in the motor too; is it possible for a bad motor sensor to take out the speedo? I borrowed another RS speedo and now cant run over 30 deg of timing with the motor timing full clock wise. Temps were just too high.
02-14-2010, 07:23 PM
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Randy I think Dustin Thompson said to get ahold of you because he really felt it was a bad new esc. I had 7.5 Ballistic and a new 10.5 Ballistic before the orion, all of them clogged so bad. No one there had a Tekin motor not being used. By the time I smoked someones else's motor, and had a broken chassis from this problem, plus the 1am-2am hr drive home, I didnt stick around and try to put a Tekin motor in.
02-14-2010, 07:29 PM
I have an RS coming this week and I am starting to get worried reading about all the issues people are having. Are most of these issues human error or are there issues with the software?
02-14-2010, 07:32 PM
Dont forget to get a Hotwire so you can update the software.....
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02-14-2010, 07:35 PM
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JPMSracing-After reading this problem from the begining I'm at a loss of what the problem could be. As for the smoked motor what was the timing of the motor set at. With what you can do setting wise with the speedo it's important to know "ALL" your setting even when borrowing another motor. This may just be a bad unit. Randy is the guy that can shed a little more light as he knows the speedo inside and out. You didn't make a bad choice in speedo's. Everyone here is trying to help the best they can. You had a rough time the first time out but once we get to the bottom of your problem, your 2nd time will be great. Have you contacted Tekin yet? Give us a chance to make you happy again. It might be something simple if the unit isn't defective and if that's the case we all will feel stupid that we over looked it