Battle switch "twitching"

[typhoon_driver]

I wired up all the new electronics in hornet 2 today and everything appeared to be great until I started testing the battleswitch I am using.

Quick rundown of my setup,

24v pack of nicads, running to a sabretooth powering 2 18v drill motors. Off the same circuit I have a battleswitch which turns on and off a solid state relay which supplies current to a magmotor. I am using the BEC from the sabretooth to power the spectrum receiver.

The problem,

When I run the drive at full speed the battle switch twitches on and off, pulsing the magmotor when it should be off. Not a major problem as I usually want the magmotor to be on when I am driving anyway but I dont want to have a bug in my system.

Anyone offer any advice or had a similar problem?

[grant_ploughbot]

It may be that the BEC in the sabretooth doesnt supply enough current for the receiver and battle switch - might be worth testing with a seperate one.

[woody]

Ive been having a similar problem Gary ...both the Pico and the Battleswitch that I have behave exactly as you describe.

Ive tried everything that I can think of .... my final solution ..tested today... is the old faithful FS-1 in the switchline ..Problem solved.

[kronic]

My battleswitch does the same. Seems to suffer from interference from the motors in Weed. Moving the switch away from the motors sorted this problem out.

[Kenny]

i dont have any interference in flow with my battleswitch thing i found is its wried differently to my other rc switch the solinoid or motor is positive and the switching is done by the negative

[woody]

Its just a low voltage relay powered from the receiver...which will happily switch the negative or positive feed of the main supply.