Engel Tmax troubles any one who has one

[brutis11]

I have hooked up my t max and motors to the cilinders and am having a problem, using K5 to test hooks to my receiver and it is a 3 position switch, using a regular servo to test in the I position servo is on 1 side, switching to 2 position it it goes to middle and 3 goes to other side.Then I removed the servo from the test When I put power to the tmax I here a relay pull in and the piston on both sides pull the piston all the way in and then it pushes out and stops. I tried moving the 3 position switch and nothing happens. I have the poitioners hooked to the tmax but do not have the them hooked to the receiver yet, also I do not have the pleasure switch hooked up yet. I followed the wiring diagram to the tea and triple checked my work what is going wrong? Could it be that I do not have K6 &K7 hooked to the receiver. any Ideas. I am stopping right now to I here from you I don’t want to break anything, but funny thing is when I turn power it cycles every time, but wont work after that.
Any Ideas?
Thank
you
Jim Davis

[Guest]

Re: Engel Tmax troubles any one who has one

Pleasure switch?

What's that then, sounds interesting- you must have the deluxe model.

I dare say 'Wheelerdealer' or 'Bob the builder' can give you some tips on this on this one.

[brutis11]

Re: Engel Tmax troubles any one who has one

Good day
after rechecking my wiring all is good and I was still having error. I was on channel 8 which was a 3 way switch. on my radio I have another 3 way switch on channel 5. I changed the programing to make channel 5 a switch. Now everything is working right. I am getting 90% stop and move switch now get 100% so it must have been my radio
so life is good, now I have to drill lots of holes
JIm

[brutis11]

Re: Engel Tmax troubles any one who has one

Sometimes, a model can be overengineered

[stuartl]

Re: Engel Tmax troubles any one who has one

Sometimes, a model can be overengineered

Sometimes a model isn't overengineered. That's slightly rarer

[brutis11]

Re: Engel Tmax troubles any one who has one

The mystry problem started up again so in my frustation I removed all wireing from boat and tested all switches and as running new wire I Ohmed it out and to my surprise everythig works correctly. Now what caused the problem I went back through all of the wire I removed and found a bad servo harness and and a bad piece of #14 guage wire I had used for the main bus, so I was looking at a couple of bad pieces of wire and I could have also reversed wired something in the process. So I am happy now and am enjoying the build of the model and I can apprecate the detail that was put into the hull. Thanks all for your comments and help on this issue, but it is over now.
Thanks again
Jim