Simonk 12 amp ESC

Altsickeness said:
Here it is from Banggood http://www.banggood.com/Eachine-Rac...CB-Board-for-Eachine-Racer-250-p-1040720.html

Im new to these things and this is my first hobby grade quad with brushless motors and ESC. From what I understand, most ESCs have capacitors as part of the ESC, but for this set up they integrated them into the lower circuit board.
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What ESCs are they using? This should be no problem to fix, what part stopped working? I doubt they would modify the ESCs nless they made them themselves. Otherwise this is probably just a PDB, filter and maybe BEC.

Can you tell if those capacitors are aluminum electrolytic, or OSCON?


Edit: If you damaged a capacitor then you are looking for:

Capacitance: 470uf
Voltage: 25v
Series: UT
Type: Aluminum Electrolytic
Style: SMD


But I think they used those to act as power filters for any high frequency noise.
 
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GJH105775 said:
What ESCs are they using? This should be no problem to fix, what part stopped working? I doubt they would modify the ESCs nless they made them themselves. Otherwise this is probably just a PDB, filter and maybe BEC.

Can you tell if those capacitors are aluminum electrolytic, or OSCON?


Edit: If you damaged a capacitor then you are looking for:

Capacitance: 470uf
Voltage: 25v
Series: UT
Type: Aluminum Electrolytic
Style: SMD


But I think they used those to act as power filters for any high frequency noise.
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Simonk 12amp ESCs. The part that stopped working is that it wont fly. :) no motors turn. I also lost lights and vtx power when I shorted out the board. I ran two wires (power and ground) to the power relay from the battery power plug and then ran two more from there to my vtx. I had it working and flying with fpv. had a few more crashes and battery changes and after the last battery change it stopped working. Strange thing is that on the last battery change, I actually landed, changed battery and then went to arm and it would not move. I tested power and ground to all ESCs and have 12 vts and good ground. I tested resistance from fcb pin 1-4 to each corresponding ESC and have no resistance (.1-3) something like that.
 
Altsickeness said:
Simonk 12amp ESCs. The part that stopped working is that it wont fly. :) no motors turn. I also lost lights and vtx power when I shorted out the board. I ran two wires (power and ground) to the power relay from the battery power plug and then ran two more from there to my vtx. I had it working and flying with fpv. had a few more crashes and battery changes and after the last battery change it stopped working. Strange thing is that on the last battery change, I actually landed, changed battery and then went to arm and it would not move. I tested power and ground to all ESCs and have 12 vts and good ground. I tested resistance from fcb pin 1-4 to each corresponding ESC and have no resistance (.1-3) something like that.
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Do your ESCs have BECs? You may have lost something on the BEC's 5v so no receiver or FCB power. Does the BEC switch on with a relay? If so is it a latching or non-latching relay?
 
GJH105775 said:
Do your ESCs have BECs? You may have lost something on the BEC's 5v so no receiver or FCB power. Does the BEC switch on with a relay? If so is it a latching or non-latching relay?
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Ahhhhh.... You lost me. How do I find out if the ESCs have BECs or not? Looking at the printed circuit board from the link, there is a bunch of stuff that I have no idea what it does. I was hoping to get a new circuit board and disect this one to try and figure out where everything goes.
 
My Quad is back!
Here is the story.
I used this video to learn how to bypass the printed circuit board.
However unlike the guy in the video I did not remove my voltage regulator because I wanted to salvage parts of the PCB that did still work, so instead soldered right to it. The important part here is that the guy shows a wire diagram with the VR flipped over, putting 5vt on top and 12v on the bottom. I didn't notice that it was flipped so I soldered the 12v power to the 5vt side of the regulator. The result is that I damaged my FCB and my RX. I figured it out by replacing the FCB and then the rx then it worked. I tried both separate, but it needed both. I don't know exactly what I did but all I know is it arms and the motors spin. Im putting it back together and looking to fit in a test flight this afternoon. Thank you GJH105775 (can I just call you GJH?) for all your input and helping me work through the problem.

To recap, A poor soldering job caused a short that smoked the lower printed circuit board and a mistake in the PCB bypass procedure smoked the FCB and the RX. The lesson is dont be in a hurry when soldering, it makes a mess and costs money.
 
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