So.. here's a little story about a castle 120 edge. It came into use with a lovely new trex 700 kit... nearly 18 months ago.. it was mounted up and was a good little ESC.. but summer was a bit to hot, and it's big brother a castle 160 edge with a fan came along to help out...
It sat on a shelf for a little bit, then was reborn into a goblin 570. Now since this was a smaller heli, he had a little nephew come and help.. his name was BEC. And he was always there taking power off the esc, but he didnt mind.. he loved his little bec buddy.. but the BEC wasnt just taking taking the power for himself.. no no.. he liked to share.. and he gave it to his buddies the FBL, servo's and RX...
Little BEC had a cousin.. called Backup Guard. BEC had no idea what his cousin did... it just looked like he was sitting there just to look pretty, and always seemed to be listening on on what happened between BEC and his mates...
Anyway one day.. after they had all been hanging out together... the Castle had a problem.. its EC5 de-soldered and it stopped talking to the battery.. oh no.. but thats ok the BEC is there.. oh wait! now there is no power for the bec to take.. the Bec's buddies needed that power... but BEC was letting them down... and then something amazing happened.. the BackupGuard starting sharing power with BEC's buddies.. the FBL, Servos and RX.. what an awesome thing for it to do..
So what happened to the poor heli in all this... well it came down nicely, broke some landing gear but that was it.... wasn't that a happy ending...
Morale of the story... if your running a BEC, run another backup power source, be it a Scorpion BackupGuard, and optipower ultra guard, or just a plain old life buffer back.... cause you never know whats going to happen....
The End....
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Discussion in 'The Chat Room' started by Manyc, Jan 5, 2015.
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Discussion in 'The Chat Room' started by Manyc, Jan 5, 2015.