anyone heard of a website called hobby-square.com ?

Got an email about its grand opening and it seems to have primarily viper stuff, and right now they have a 20% coupon and free shipping over $50 going on.

Been looking for some low profile servos and the xpert ones with this discount look tempting as well as the black edition motors or even the VSTs still being cleared out.

Also has a lot of protek gear on it and ecopower.

Hobby square is the new website for the viper stuff. Their old website will be gone soon.

okay good stuff.

Need some tech help having some issue I can not figure out. Vtx8 with Tekin pro4 hd truck runs great for a whole heat then next heat on a landing truck will stop esc will flash red and yellow alternating lights. Have swapped batteries, sensor wires, battirie plugs. Motor connections are good can not see any damage to wires what should I check next motor sensor board? Somthing inside the esc getting loose? Yesterday's A main it did it on warmup lap restarted the esc and made it four laps until it happened again. Always happens when landing a jump.

Could be a number of things. Are there any other lights on with the alternating red and orange (I'm guessing you meant orange as there aren't any yellow LEDs)? Any time I had issues like this it was a battery connection that was the issue. I eliminated battery connectors and went straight to the battery with bullets and haven't had a problem since. If you have plugs in between the ESC and the motor try getting rid of those and wiring directly to the motor as well. Also, tidy up your wires and make sure they aren't flopping around loose as well, including the sensor wire.

Yes the red light steady glow motor is wired direct soldered on new deans connector issue still there the wires are secured.

How is your button switch cushioned? Just straight servo tape and where?

Esc and button on battery tray has some flex absorbs impact

vtx 10-r issue
 

I have a vtx10-r that I purchased brand new form LHS and I ran it 1 race night, I ran it in the "blinky" mode and it ran pretty well. It is in an AE b44.3 with a 6.5T reds motor at 0* timing advance. I took temps after every run and never exceeded 115*. After the racing, I asked a local fast guy at the track to take the buggy for a spin and help me with setup suggestions. He took it for 1 lap and pulled the buggy over to adjust the travel in my remote, after that the buggy has had no more drive at all. We reset the travel back to where it was and still nothing.

When i power the esc it will turn on with normal lights, but has no forward or reverse action. My steering works, so I know its not a dead receiver, but just in case, I tried with a spare receiver and it did the same exact thing. It has steering, but no esc action.

If I try to go into programing mode, it will get a solid red light that will never go away. At that point anything I do to the esc will not work. It will not even shut off, unless I pull the battery. I try by pressing the power button for several seconds and wait for the beeping, but it never happens and never changes lights.

I found this video on yt ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7Z_-G74ORo )and it is doing the same thing as mine, where it gets stuck on this red light and then is unresponsive to any other presses.

Has anyone else had this issue at all :confused:? It is a practically new esc, so I have no idea what may have happened. Any help at all would be much appreciated!

I tried looking up this issue but have come up short on my searching, and I am sorry, but I'm not about to read 700+ pages of this thread to see if I can find the same issue on here, so I apologize if this has been addressed before, but maybe someone can help or point me in the right direction...

your issue looks similar to something I have experienced but in my case appears to be caused by something outside of the ESC.

In short though, if what you are seeing is the same thing I am seeing on the ESC (stuck at red light) but I am assuming you still get power to the servo (or not probably doesn't matter) you will need to send the ESC for replacement as my similar issue basically came down to something being damaged on the ESC as nothing would kick my stuck red light over.

Again, this is just going of face value of what I am seeing in the video, which looks similar to the problem I had at least what the ESC was doing, though cause is most likely different.

I would go ahead and get the RMA processing going to get the unit back to Viper so they can get you up and running again pronto, and give them a good description of everything you are using it in.

did you try to recalibrate it.

If its anything like what i saw on two other ESCs that bricked like this, you can't recalibrate as it won't go into anything to calibrate. You are pretty much dead unfortunately.

try a different motor and sensor wire before you send it in as well.

Wildcat, I was trying to recalibrate it, hoping that would solve the issue, or at least remove another thing to try before sending it in, but the recalibration procedure is to (from the off position) press and hold the power button for about 3 seconds until it beeps and lights change... this never happens with mine.

If I power up the esc normally, it will do the power cycle noise and get me lights as if everything will work, but just no power is sent to the motor (have yet to verify with a voltage meter), but I did try with a different (working) motor and had the same result... nothing happening to the motor.

If I try to hold the power button from when it is off, or on, to change any setting or program the esc, or try to recalibrate, that is when it turns to a solid red light and will become frozen at that light until battery is removed.

Also, if I unplug the battery to power off the esc, unless it (the battery terminal) is off for more than 10 seconds, any attempt to power up the esc will go straight to a solid red light.

Your issue sadly sounds familiar :(