ResidualBacon
Junior Member
I'm building my first Electrohub kit (with Ready To Fly Quad electronics pack) after building a few FT airplanes.
I soldered the motor to the ESC as shown in the video, but I don't have a servo tester to try out the motors and see which way they spin. Instead I just hooked up a receiver that is already bound to my transmitter. I got that connected and then held the bare ESC power wires into the female XT60 connector on the battery. Moving the throttle didn't make anything happen with the motor.
I thought maybe I somehow overheated the ESC when desoldering the wires so I pulled out another ESC and just temporarily soldered motor wires onto the wires coming out of the ESC. I repeated the process with the receiver and the battery but no luck getting the motor to spin.
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? This seems super basic. I thought maybe I didn't initialize them right so I tried this with the throttle both high and low. Still nothing.
One possible clue is that as I plugged the wires in, it took a little wiggling to get a solid connection. So it flickered on and off a couple times. Did I just fry both of these? How can I debug this? Thanks in advance for any help you can give me!
Oh and when I plug the battery in, I hear three ascending tones from the ESC, then no more noise and moving the throttle does nothing.
I soldered the motor to the ESC as shown in the video, but I don't have a servo tester to try out the motors and see which way they spin. Instead I just hooked up a receiver that is already bound to my transmitter. I got that connected and then held the bare ESC power wires into the female XT60 connector on the battery. Moving the throttle didn't make anything happen with the motor.
I thought maybe I somehow overheated the ESC when desoldering the wires so I pulled out another ESC and just temporarily soldered motor wires onto the wires coming out of the ESC. I repeated the process with the receiver and the battery but no luck getting the motor to spin.
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? This seems super basic. I thought maybe I didn't initialize them right so I tried this with the throttle both high and low. Still nothing.
One possible clue is that as I plugged the wires in, it took a little wiggling to get a solid connection. So it flickered on and off a couple times. Did I just fry both of these? How can I debug this? Thanks in advance for any help you can give me!
Oh and when I plug the battery in, I hear three ascending tones from the ESC, then no more noise and moving the throttle does nothing.
