Help! New to flying, throttle issue

[Newbie001]

Hi, we're new to RC planes, and my son built the FT mini trainer as his first plane. We were successful in getting all the electronics to work and started flying. After several crashes he decided to rebuild the airplane and his new build is much cleaner and ready to fly. However, as we connected the electronics we could not calibrate the ESC and we have no throttle.

Equipment: FlySky FS-T6 transmitter and receiver, Flight Test Power Pack A model electronics. All same equipment on both builds. Picture of setup attached.

Receiver pairs (light goes solid), but when we try to calibrate the ESC, there is no beep, and no throttle. We bought a second ESC and have the same issue. Any ideas we can try or ways to test what may be the issue? I haven't seen anything on this forum that has helped. Thanks!

 

[Mr Man]

What channel is the esc plugged into on the receiver?

 

[Newbie001]

What channel is the esc plugged into on the receiver?

ESC is plugged into channel 3 on the receiver.

 

[Mr Man]

What “sticks” mode are you using on your transmitter?

 

[Mr Man]

It should be on mode 4

 

[Merv]

ESC is plugged into channel 3 on the receiver.

It's hard to tell from the picture, but it looks to me that the throttle is in channel 2, not 3

 

[Merv]

It should be on mode 4

I think you ment mode 2

 

[Mr Man]

I think you ment mode 2

I was referencing the fly sky transmitter modes. Mode 4 would be a normal 4ch plane while mode 2 would be a flying wing

 

[Newbie001]

I’m not sure what the Modes are, but this shows that the left stick vertical movement is controlling channel 3 (throttle).

 

[Newbie001]

It's hard to tell from the picture, but it looks to me that the throttle is in channel 2, not 3

Not clear in the picture, but I did confirm ESC is plugged into channel 3.

 

[Mr Man]

Maybe try re-binding?

 

[Foamforce]

There ought to be beeps of some kind, even if it’s not hooked up correctly. I suspect that the motor was burned out. The motor itself is used as the “speaker” to make the beeps by vibrating it rapidly. If the motor is burned out, you won’t get any beeps.

If you turn the motor by hand when everything is unplugged, do you feel any resistance? You shouldn’t, other than a tiny lumpy feeling as it passes the windings.

To rule out the receiver or binding as the issue, plug the ESC into the BAT port. Then plug a servo into port 3. When you do that, the throttle should now control the servo. If it does, then your binding and receiver are both fine and since you already replaced your ESC, then it’s probably a burned out motor.

Motors can easily burn out if you have a crash and accidentally leave the throttle turned on for several seconds while the prop is held, so that makes this plausible.

 

[Newbie001]

Thanks, I tried that test with the ESC in the BAT port and servo in port 3 and the throttle does control the servo. Much appreciated, we'll try a new motor... 😁