While testing out my turret I noticed that
my receiver was powered up regardless of the state of the switch (controlling
the 4.8v pack).
The set-up is that I have a 12v battery driving
the rotate and elevate motors. The rotate is using a scorpion
mini. The elevate is using one channel of the MRC controller.
The receiver has its own 4 cell battery
pack.
After successfully rotating and elevating for a
while, I turned the system off (not sure of the exact sequence as I did it
many times). When I brought it back it wouldn't respond. Powering
on and off in different sequences gets it working and once its working it
doesn't fail, BUT when I turn off the switch between the receiver and the 4.8v
pack it keeps working! I figure I'm on the verge of blowing something up
and I'll have to recheck everything, but I thought I'd ask for pointers
first. Is the receiver drawing power back from the servo
leads? If so isn't that at 12v? and have I damaged
anything?
Btw, here is some turret documentation (I
think this is probably required to keep my designation after a long period of
inactivity)
Thanks very much,
Amir