Micro Crawler problems.

The other night I decided to try out my Micro Rock Crawler.  I could steer but could not move.  thinking that is might have been an issue with the motor getting stuck, I took out the transmission, and everything looked OK.  Next I thought it was the battery.  So I reprogrammed the ESC for NiMh and tried again.  Still nothing from the motor.  Maybe it was an ESC calibration issue.  I went through the steps, and the ESC was not responding correctly.  So I swapped some connections around: move the Steering servo to the channel I'm using for thorttle.  When I turned on the system, the front steering went full right.  Maybe it's an issue with the receiver.  Turned the truck off, changed profiles, got out the original receiver that came with the radio, connected up the steering servos (one to the channel I use for throttle), gave it power, and this time the front steering servo went full left.  Guess what that means?  Yup, the radio has a problem again.  This time with the Elevator function.

Well I was lucky when I sent it in last time, and Horizon Hobby didn't charge me for service repair on the radio.  I packed up the Spektrum DX6i and both receivers.  I am going to wait to send it in as I know it's going to cost.  Heck I may not even send it in and just save the money towards a new radio altogether.

Well to get this crawler going, I decided to see if my 2nd Tactic TTX650 receiver would fit.  It does, just barely.  So I got the crawler back together.  Then installed the receiver, setup the radio, and linked the receiver to the transmitter.  Next, I got the ESC calibrated and reconfigured it back to LiPo 2S mode.  I turned on the truck, and was driving.  Maybe because it's still brand new, but I really like this Tactic TTX650.  It is fairly easy to setup and use.

So I was driving, the chassis/body kept rolling to one side.  As it turns out, this new brushless motor really puts out some torque twist.  So last night I decided to put the springs back on the shocks.  It gives it a taller ride height, but we'll see how the torque twist is.