Losi Xcelorin that won't go into reverse

[Cassp0nk]

Ok, I've just built my car with an xcelorin 6.5 setup. It has the latest firmware flashed and I've set it up to have reverse turned on. I've also calibrated successfully.

However, the car won't reverse? Now I haven't take it off my test bench and put it on its wheels yet, so could that be a factor (electrics not fastened down yet...)

Otherwise, anyone have a clue whats wrong?

Jackwood on here bought a unit from the same shop at a similar time and he reports that his won't reverse with the 1.28 firmware but would when he reverted to the previous one. He has however recently reported it glitching with reverse on the older firmware now too.

I'm using driving the ESC with a spectrum dx3r at 3.3 framerate. I've even tried reveresing the channel on the transmitter and pushing to reverse accelerates as expected, but pulling the trigger doesn't engage reverse.

Is the Xcelorin really as crap as I was warned?

[Cassp0nk]

Hmm reverse worked very briefly, but then I turned on and off and it stopped again. Its definitely getting the reverse signal as the red led comes on when I go full reverse.

Additionally selecting a profile, once I have chosen one, instead of illuminating with the leds indicating the selected profile (which it does on first boot up, blue+yellow=profile1) it just illuminates the blue led from then onwards.

Really beginning to think they havent tested this firmware. Now where can I get a tekin in the uk?

[Cassp0nk]

hmm where have I seen this before:

http://www.ztwoem.com/en/products_view.asp?id=31

[JackWood]

So you did find the issue too.

Obviously not my stupidity or my Transmitter!!

I logged a technical question with Losi USA, so lets see if I get an answer. Still nothing after 3 days though :O

[JackWood]

You can't always put stock in what you find on Chinese websites. If you hunt around you can find some of the products we make on Chinese manufacturers websites, but I can guarantee 100% they are not made there!!!

[Cassp0nk]

Originally Posted by JackWood

You can't always put stock in what you find on Chinese websites. If you hunt around you can find some of the products we make on Chinese manufacturers websites, but I can guarantee 100% they are not made there!!!

I have this suspician that the unit is made by that company in china and rebranded and sold by losi. It would explain why its so competitively priced, and why the firmware is shit!

I'm thinking of swapping to a tekkin which is $$$ but at least its developed by a US company who one can talk to.