Bulldog Breed

**typhoon_driver** · 16th July 2012, 20:16

I would start by taking out the roboteq and bench testing it on it's own like I told you to before you do anything else

**harry hills** · 16th July 2012, 20:21

your problems might be caused by bad spirits, try drilling holes through the roboteq. the bigger the hole, the more demons can get out.

**Anttazz** · 16th July 2012, 20:48

Is the ali box maybe some sort of voltage regulator? Not sure, just a guess going by what its connected to. You can keep the gyro, but take it out while you're trying to problem solve as it just adds another complication to everything then add it in if you really need it when its all working properly.

Test the Roboteq independantly, straight to a battery and motor like Gary says and establish that that isn't the problem, then go from there and add in components that are needed one step at a time.

**terry** · 16th July 2012, 20:52

or better still...throw it away and get a watty :wink: job done.

**widow_twanky** · 16th July 2012, 21:46

Matt,

The bit in the aluminium box appears to be a solid state rc relay. This is similar to the ones on the team delta web site and i bet if you take it out it says team delta on it.

http://www.teamdelta.com/products/prod2.htm

The three wires going into it on the right hand side of the photo are the rc leads. It's not unusual for these to go to a connection box where they're soldered or a pcb with some suppression capacitors on it. You don't see them so much now as the need for suppression on 2.4ghz is less.

The two outgoing red wires from this on the left are the switched circuit. These pass through the relay on the left which is a 'buffering relay' designed to take the load of the coils on the valves. Trace these back and i bet the just create a loop between your live and negative terminals (again at this age they probably take a really arduous route through various PCB's etc which are now realatively unnecessary due to the new rc gear.

The relay on the left seems to operate the valves. I suspect the blue wire coming out is a negative and the other two are switched circuits (mainly because the blue wire seems to go to both valves.

Trace all the wires out and see where they go but it actually seems fairly simple.

It's a good enough system and you don't need to replace it unless its failed.

Test it without the roboteq connected if you have a receiver battery.

Gyro I would lose and just learn how to drive it without. Never used one, never seen the point and the only one i tried to connect made the speed controllers do strange things. At least do your testing without it and then connect to see if that's the problem.

I see no bec there so you may be simply relying on the bec from the roboteq. It may be ok on 40meg but they tend not to be man enough for a 2.4ghz set and cut in and cut out so best to put one in or use a 4.8v receiver battery. (team delta stuff does not do 6v batteries very well)

Andy

**mattsdragons** · 25th July 2012, 15:56

ORDERING A NEW PLUG SEEMED TOO DO THE TRICK, BULLDOGS ALIVE!

Though fowards and back are left and right on one stick and left and right are the same, but on the other stick... I think I can live with that

**psycho_fling** · 25th July 2012, 16:09

thats to do with the channels the rc plugs from the controller are plugged into on your reciever easy fix

**mattsdragons** · 25th July 2012, 16:24

Not quite sure what too do as I tried that, it either didnt work or didnt failsafe

Got it working on one stick but still with left and right being forward and back, is it worth swapping the + and - round on the servo leads

**razerdave** · 25th July 2012, 16:48

Do NOT do that under any circumstance!

If the up and down turns left and right, then either it's plugged in the wrong channel or one motor is wired the wrong way. Drop me a FB message later and I'll talk you through it.