My 150A Trackstar Gen2 connects to the Program Card fine. When I connect it to the PC, I get both green lights on the software showing USB Connected and ESC Connected. But I also always get the message Failed to read ESC.

I found this info in one of the USBlink manuals somewhere,

Connect the ESC, LCD program box and PC according to the picture(same as turnigy manual). Run the USB Link Software.
And then connect ESC to battery and
turn it on, the USB Link Software will
try to communicate with the ESC. After
the connection is established, user
can easily set the ESC or update its
firmware on the PC .
have'nt tried to connect mine yet , but will post findings when I do,
also remember reading somewhere that the order of connection(as above) is important
Hope this helps

I tried exactly this method.

When the esc is connected to a pc through the card, the card displays "connected to pc". The fan turns slowly.

Opened the software.

Connected the battery and the led turns on and is red. The fan speed picks up. The esc beeps the number of cells.

Push the power button and it does nothing.

Click the "read esc" button on the software and it acts as if it's going to open and then closes completely.

Also, if you push and hold the power button, the esc shuts off and the software tries to open and then completely closes.

Something is wrong with the software.

Have you tried the hobbywing usblink v3.4 software, looks like it has the same fuctions, dont know if it will work though, good luck

Ok guys I'm trying to start bringing in the Toro competition line of esc's, program boxes, blue tooth modules, and PC links. But with Chinese New Year right around the corner I'm holding off until February. Also right now rcmart has them at a insanely cheap price that is below my cost so it won't be easy to bring these here at price that I'm not losing money.

Same thing here with the Hobbyking Trackstar. Just tried again. Definitely a design issue somewhere. Can't read data from the ESC to the PC via the Programming card.

I haven't tried it. Do you download it from Hobbypartz website?

Can get it from here, w.hobbywing.com/product_show.asp?id=218[/url]
hope it works , good luck

I cant post urls yet just add the ww

I tried it this afternoon. Software will not play with the Trackstar stuff at all.

Dont know if you guys tried this but hobbyking website has this comment

FELIX:: If you having issues running the software with windows 7, right click and select run as admin.

Hey Guys,

Im getting this message aswell,
any help would be great

Ok guys this is what I found with the turnigy trackstar software.
As everybody has said it wont READ the ESC, but I found it will WRITE to it.
This is how I did it...
First you have to create a "test" file with the extension .esc , example: test.esc to desktop or location of your choice.
You can create one using notepad. open notepad, leave it blank, click save as, at the bottom change save file type as:: to all files/types, save as test.esc. must not save as .txt file or it wont work so test.esc ...NOT test.esc.txt, just so its clear for all

Open USBLink by right clicking on icon and run as administrator, Click on load from pc and select your "test" file, you will get file error but the program opens. in general settings you must click on default button or the program will crash when you go to the throttle tab. or use the one I attached to avoid the file error(only changed running mode to forward/brake/reverse) you will have to rename it to .esc as I cant upload this file type here, follow above procedure to name correctly, once you are "IN" you can change and save your config, and then it will write it to the ESC. Cant read it though
I confirmed that my change was saved in the ESC with the program box by itself. Hopefully HobbyKing will sort this out soon with a firmware update

EDIT: (Sorry, should have said I'm running Win7 Pro) You can Create a shortcut to USBLink on your desktop and change its properties to always run as admin( right click icon: properties: compatability: run as admin (checkbox)

EDIT: Also just wanted to add that when connected to PC, NO battery is required to be connected to the ESC and you do not need to press the power button, it powers through the usb cord. You only need the battery if using the program box by itself.

You are the man!!! Nice job. I finally got in.

For anyone else who has actually named the administrator account, you may be required to create a password for that account and use it to log in. At least that's what I had to do. I use Windows XP and I couldn't log in with the password field blank.

Nice classic computer detective work! I will have to try this. Very clever. I use my old laptop with XP on it, but I can also try my Win 7 Ultimate desktop if the laptop doesn't work.

I will report after I try it.

I still could not get it. After I load your file, am I supposed to plug in the program card or esc to save into it? Once I done that then the program will crash and close it.