blown reciever?

[MexicanRcracer]

hello rc fans, i nead some help, i was drivin
my MRC ironman, an sudently it stop, i check
my ESC with my cousin´s traxxas rustler and it works ok, and then i check my reciever an i looks like it does not recieve any signal from the transmiter, did i burn up my reciever?, are the cristals cooked?, or the transmiter as had enough?. other strange thing is when a turn on the ESC the front wheels turn slightly (did i write it correctly) to the right, but that´s all it does, i can´t turn the wheels left or right nor i can give the truck throtle. please help. THANKS

ps: sorry for the misspelling i might have,
i´m mexican

[old phart]

Receivers are fragile instruments. If they gat jarred heavily, they can be damaged. If you have crashed your truck hard, done big jumps, flipped it over, etc it is quite likely the receiver has been damaged and needs to be repaired or replaced.

[Destrega]

Really? Then i must be lucky cuz i was racing my impulse and my receiver came out
and i drove the car into the pits dragging it behind my car. It works like the day i bought it.

[Car_Head12]

im not sure aboot the reciever problem but i know what wrong with your servo cause it happened to me. its MESSED just by a new one, was it by chance a cheap 94102 servo?
:D :p :cool:

Car Head

[Car_Head12]

or itsw could be that the gears are stripped but it doesnt sound like it.... open up the servos and have a look-see

Car Head

[Nairb]

No, don't buy a new servo yet. It sounds like you don't get throttle either. Find a friend with a similar radio and borrow some of his stuff to eliminate possibilities. First, try a different set of crystals. Second, try plugging your servo and ESC into his receiver. Third, try using his radio with your equipment. You should find the problem this way.

If you have throttle control, but no steering, then you probably did strip your servo gears like Car Head said. If that is the case, just buy new gears for it instead of a whole new servo.

[digex]

Try running the car with the steering servo unplugged (on a car stand of course) and see if it works likt that. Your servo may be bound up and keeping everything else from working right. If that's the case do like Nairb said and just replace the gears, not the whole unit.

[Car_Head12]

ahhh, ok nairb is correct but sometimes servos just dont work, it has happened plenty of times, especially on cheap servos. and what happens is that the servos gets stuck going one way and wont move, and it sounds like that MIGHT be your problem. and it happened to after i had a little problem with a cement wall...

Car Head :eek: :)

[JoeTheShmoe]

if the front wheels move, then the esc is reciving power, so it is working. I would guess it is the crystal. That is what went on my traxxas tq radio. Since the wheels move i would quess that the esc is good (if you have BEC circutry)(no AA batteries for the reciver that is...) The reason that i think the esc is good is because power is going thru it, thru the reciver, and to the steering servo.