Little back ground; radio/receiver is around 1 1/2 years old. Up until 2 months ago was used with a TekinRS in blinky. For the last 2 months I have been running an Orion R10 with a Thunder power 5.5 motor. The only thing plugged into the receiver is the esc, the KO servo and the my laps transponder.

Now what happened. At this weekends race i went wide open throttle, let off, tapped the brakes lightly and the car lost signal and coasted to a stop. This all happened on the first warm up lap The receiver had no light on. I tried to rebind it, no luck.

The light still won't come on the receiver even after taking the cover off of it and cleaning out all the carpet and debris that was in it.

I borrowed another racers car with a ko receiver and my controller bound up to it, no problem.

My question is what caused the receiver to go out?

Do I need to run a cap on the receiver?

Would that have saved this from happening?

Or just chalk this up to it being old and debris in it?

Thanks for the help