Drive Shaft And Electronics
 

ok so im sittin there jacking with a motor i have installed on my car i smell something burning dont really think anything of it but it gets stronger and stronger the next thing i knoe theres white smoke pouring out of the recever box i quickly grabbed it and poped one of the batterys out so by this point in soo pissed i cant see straight because i think ive fried it but just on a wish i pop the battery beck in and try it and the damn thing still worked so im wondering what could have caused such a thing to happen im starting to think its the dive shaft i oil my car with rc oil and i think it ran down the drive shaft and got on the electronics any ideas of what happend or has this happend to anyone alse? thanx alot
peece MICROinnovation

Welcome to the "short range" club. My driveshaft touched my PCB the first day I owned the car and my range died (5 feet or so, the typical complaint) I bought a replacement PCB and it was all better. Until I ran into a bowl of water for my cats to drink out of. :(

Anyhoo, always turn off the car before doing any work on it. That's the lesson I learned. The oil though, dunno if you could have avoided that one aside from using less oil, eh?

Try your range out. I'd bet your car won't go more than 20 feet away from you without acting REALLY funny. Probably less than 20 feet.

yep thats exactly what happend on the pcb swich do you think i could just replace the board with the crystal and stuff on it or do you think go i should ahead and replace the main board

What would need to be replaced if the pcb is shorted?

well its a good chance that the main pcb will have to be replaced

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Is it an easy install? Any soldering? Is it a plug and play?

Soldering is required, but it is just 4 wires AFAICR...

im pretty sure you would just have to install it if it were ther whole assebly like battey case and everything but you do have to take most of the car apart to do it

ohh sry i didnt know what they came with or what they didnt come with but you heard the man its just 4 wires

I had to resolder one of mine, because my "data" broke, so I just resoldered them all. Not easy for me, but I'm not the best solderer.

oh yeah , somebody else has gotten into there cars circuit board i was in mine the other night and found a little switch i dont know where on the car it came from the car had died and i wasnt bein all that carefull coud anybody tell me what that s for?

theres a good chance thats your on/off swich

i know its not that, its wired to a circuit board board and its way to small to be that and its got three diff. positions it can be put in

hummmmm can you take a pic of it i really dont knw what it is and now im really curious as to what it might be

screw buying a new pcb it will just get fried again as soon as i get my cf supplies in next week im heagdin to the hobby shop and am going to buy a new hobby grade electronic system radio and everything then all just fab my cf chassis to them