| As I put together my Slow Stick and GWS system, I have two questions: | First, I have all the electronics hooked up and I am trying to conduct | a test of the servos, etc. Presently, nothing is working. The | instructions tell me to first turn on the transmitter and second, the | receiver. I've got power on the transmitter. How do I turn on the | receiver? I don't see any way of turning it on.
Plugging the battery in is generally how you turn it on.
| Second, the speed control and receiver is warm with the battery hooked | up to it. Is this normal? The battery that they sent me is a GWS Ni-MH | AAA750mAh 8.4v.
The speed control might get a bit warm (and hot in use), but the receiver really shouldn't, as it uses very little current. The battery isn't connected directly to the receiver, is it?
Your 8.4v battery should be connected to the ESC, positive to positive, and the motor should be connected as well to the motor part of the ESC. There should also be a plug on the ESC that connects to the receiver, and that is also what powers the receiver and the servos.
Perhaps that plug and/or the receivers is in backwards?
Make sure your prop is NOT on the motor for this test -- the motor could roar to life at any time, and even those little props can hurt (or tear things up) if they hit something.
If you can take some good pictures of your setup with a digital camera (good enough so we can see the writing on things) we may be able to point out the problems. Put them up on a web page somewhere and give the URL -- don't post them here.