Originally Posted by
slashmoneypit
Hey all. Our neighbors gave my son a Rally Legends rc. Older but unused. He had a blast drifting it around the house but then there was the dreaded smoke n smell. I think the speed controller is toast.. it looks like an older and pretty hokey unit (as compared to our traxxas stuff). The Rally Legends website is German and they only work with dealers. The speed controller they show as a replacement is newer looking than what we have, so I ordered one off ebay based off what I could see from their site.. WP-1040 brushed. It doesn't seem to pair with the radio.
I'm at a loss of what do next.. I know enough about rc to be dangerous. We would like to keep the radio. What's my next step to getting this going?
I have pics but cant post them yet...
THANKS!
ps there's no rc shop in our town
So the transmitter and receiver should still be bound together. I'm not familiar with that specific ESC, but you likely need to calibrate the throttle and brake end-points. If you're not familiar this is telling the ESC what are the neutral, full throttle and full brake positions. A lot of ESCs try to do this automatically upon boot up, so I would recommend making sure that if your radio has a throttle trim setting, that it's centered. Otherwise, I would review the documentation to see if it walks you through a calibration process.
P.S. What body is on the Rally Legend?