gman7

My son has a stock Grave Digger that we run 2s lipo's in. Today I put in a fully charged battery, the steering works fine but the truck won't move. The ESC light is solid green, I can roll the rear tires and the motor will turn, it doesn't seem as if anything was accidently touched on the controler but nothing happens when I pull the trigger Any suggestions? Thanks

LaTuFu

iTrader: (18)

If you hold the truck up off the ground and give it throttle, what happens?

Any chance you can record a video with a cellphone/video camera and post it to youtube?

slaterec

Last time that happen to my Grave Digger the Titan 12T went out. Nothing changed on controller, charged battery, pulled the trigger and the engine would barely move... Just a thought. I ended up replacing the entire setup with a Tacon/HobbyWing setup and man does it move.

gman7

Absolutly nothing. No movement, no sounds, the green light on the receiver will blink but thats it. The truck only has about 10 runs in it since new. However, it has been in snow and sand on different occasions.

slaterec

Silly question but this also happen to me, is the battery connection good? You might also want to try the stock 3000mah that came with to double check the connector as well as see if the esc is malfunctioning... Of course turn low-voltage off when doing so. If all works then you narrow the trouble shooting down a bit.

got_nitro

iTrader: (24)

Check your TQ throttle trim (the radio throttle trim) and make sure it's on 0 before turning it on. Then turn the car on.

Either that or your brushes are shot, I highly doubt that but I have seen it happen before. Never know with traxxsucks

RCaddict0

iTrader: (85)

Yea, get the manual out. Make shure you follow the directions and recaliberate your radio to the ESC.

LaTuFu

iTrader: (18)

Contact Traxxas support. It's a brand new truck. They will walk you through a few things, and if they don't get it resolved, they'll give you an RMA number on something (motor, esc, whatever) and get you swapped out.

I've dealt with them before on a couple of things. A Tx that I broke, and a Rx that went bad for no reason I could figure out. They swapped both without any hassle.

gman7

I took the motor out and hooked it up to a D battery and nothing happened, ill call traxxas today. Thanks

got_nitro

iTrader: (24)

Yep, brushes are SHOT.


If you want to run it, just tap the back of the motor can with a hammer. You will get a couple of more packs out of it.

gman7

I tapped it with a hammer, it works for a couple of minutes but with very little power. Will call Traxxas tomorrow. Thanks guys.

FreedomRocks

They should send you out a new motor asap from my experience with this issue.

Amarlow74

the battery charger box that u plug it in to a USB port like a cell phone charging box for example will not charge that truck only gives it a little boost then it won’t move .. it has to be a charging box port that puts out 12v not 5 like most cell phone box do