User manual CASTLE MAMBA MOSTER

[. . . ] Drivers ed guide Instruction manual for all Castle Creations Car and Truck Brushless Power Systems ’ WARNING : This is an extremely powerful brushless motor system. We strongly recommend removing your pinion gear for your own safety and the safety of those around you before performing calibration and programming functions with this system. Please keep your hands, hair, pets, fuzzy purple shorts and garden gnomes clear from the gear train and wheels of an armed high performance system. Rubber tires will “grow” to extreme size on a high speed vehicle. [. . . ] From this point on, when you connect batteries and turn the switch on, the ESC will give the initialization tone and flash after a battery is plugged in and the switch is turned on, and the arming tone will ring a second or two later. If the ESC is programmed for the Auto-Lipo setting, it will beep the number of cells in your Lipo pack between the initialization tones and the arming tones. After the arming tone plays, the ESC is ACTIVE and will respond to throttle application. If you have problems calibrating your transmitter with the Castle ESC, please see the troubleshooting guide on page 37 for more tips. Once you are calibrated and armed, do one last check before going out and experiencing the Castle brushless difference. Slowly advance 16 the throttle and check the rotation direction of the motor and the color of the LEDs on the ESC. If the motor is spinning in the right direction and the GREEN LED is blinking green, then you are ready for a test run before going into the settings of the ESC. If the ESC shows the green LED with throttle, but the wheels spin in the wrong direction, you’ll need to switch any two of the motor wires (example: switch from red to red and black to black to red to black and black to red). cASTLE LINK SET-UP Your Mamba Max is Castle Link compatible , but requires a USB cable to connect. Other Castle products may be linked with the optional Castle Link USB adapter (sold separately on all controllers, Castle Link chip is included with the Mamba Monster and Mamba Max Pro). 17 The Castle Link software will give you access to a whole new world of tuning options. You may use Castle Link to tune your throttle curve and brake curve, set your drag brake feel, and use the incredible PUNCH CONTROL to keep the front end of your car on the ground with all the power you have at your command. As new features become available, you can install them in your Castle ESC for “real time” updates!All of this is free and ensures your Castle ESC will be the best that it can be. As you go sequentially through the options, you will need to answer “yes” by holding full throttle, or answer “no” by holding full brake until the ESC accepts your answer by beeping rapidly. Once an answer has been accepted, relax the throttle back to neutral for the next question. After a “no” answer is accepted, the ESC will then present you with the next option in that section. After a “yes” answer is accepted, the ESC knows you aren’t interested in any other option in that section, so it skips to the first option in the next section. SETTINGS & EXPLANATIONS The Castle ESC is extremely flexible and may be “tuned” like any other part of your car or truck. The following section explains all the settings available to you via manual programming and what each one does to change the reactions of the ESC in order to tune it to your specific preferences. More settings are available via Castle Link. Brake / Reverse Type Sets whether reverse is enabled or not, and exactly how it can be accessed. [. . . ] You can either use a “Y” harness from the ESC battery input positive wire to connect to both the battery and the positive side of the motor, or use a single wire from 35 the positive ESC input to the positive battery pole and then continue to the positive (+) side of the motor. 36 TROUBLESHOOTING If you’re still having difficulties with your Castle ESC after trying the suggestions offered here, please contact Castle Creations technical support at the e-mail or phone number in the next section. Problem: My Castle ESC may or may not arm, but it wi l l not cal i brate to my transmitter. Solution: Most calibration issues can be solved by changing settings on the transmitter. [. . . ]