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Purple Blinking LED of Death!!! – (How to correct it) RC car ESC


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A prevalent problem is the red blinking LED of death and your rc car is not going to run Here is how to deal with this on your Arrma, Losi, Workforce Corally, or any other rc car.

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35 thoughts on “Purple Blinking LED of Death!!! – (How to correct it) RC car ESC

  1. You just saved Horizon Hobbies a bunch of money. They should start sending you cars to demo.

  2. sergio velz says:

    What type of fan is that for the motor..?

  3. EDWARD SMITH says:

    Do you know why when turning the steering wheel on the DX3 REMOTE CONTROL controls the trottle

  4. Mine is flashing green, fans work steering works, but nothing else

  5. jakebullett says:

    You are the man! You were correct, that fixed my issue. When I seen the video I was like… no way it can't be that simple. Sure as Shyte you were right. You get a like and a subscribe!

  6. Didnt help for my losi

  7. Thanks helped me alot.

  8. My new Castle ESC does this. I'll try what you said to do. I hope that saves me the $200 I spent on the system. Thanks!

  9. Riley Davis says:

    hey i just bought a ford bronco from horizon and i tried and it didnt work i dont know how to fix it

  10. Hey By says:

    pretty good safety. makes me want it even more

  11. louis mays says:

    I tried it dont work

  12. your esc has nothing to do with the steering! your just describing how to recalibrate your speed controler on your esc!

  13. I had this happen last night to my Arrma Notorious. I tried new batteries in the truck, new batteries in the radio, checked connections, then I messed with the ESC a little bit and still no change. This morning I tried this trick and it worked! Thanks 🙏🏼

  14. Background Bass Line of DEATH!!

  15. MJs RCs says:

    Have a question bud how come my 2s battery lasts longer than my 3s battery in my senton I don't know whats happening here 🤔

  16. David Hill says:

    I just noticed the controllers power light will flash off for a second when you actually are zerod in

  17. Hey so what happens when your controller does not have that knob for the throttle?? I have a Tracxas Maxx v2 and I just turned it on and all the leds on the esc are blinking like that and idk what to do please help me

  18. For some reason it still doesn’t work and I can’t find a solution

  19. Jason Mateus says:

    Thanks for that video, very useful!
    Hoever I have a few RC's and one of them will lose cinnection to the controller after a few minutes, sometimes the wheels turn but no throttle.Problem is, there is no throttle trim on the controller..

  20. bkeatin1 says:

    Razor rc. What happens when you do this and you have no steering or throttle?

  21. Duane King says:

    Worked for me ty. damn knob lol

  22. Billy Thekid says:

    Best continent i have ever watched

  23. Thank you, you just repaired my rc👍

  24. John Tarzan says:

    Just saved me from replacing my ECU/MOTOR 🥰

  25. Hi just wondering if you have a video on connecting receiver I think I blown 2 of mine connecting wrong way not seen any clear videos explaining this unless you have link thanks

  26. Mark Buffam says:

    that blink was a fast blink. how about a steady single long blink – red? steering but no throttle. steering and throttle trim zeroed. just bought a typhon tlr rtr. first run. now I can't get it to move.

  27. Aidan DeLeon says:

    So this happened to me when i put an arma esc in my maxx but the maxx receiver doesnt have that throttle knob so what do i do?

  28. That's not rhe problem for me still don't work

  29. Jaqen Hghar says:

    I wish things were so simple. I myself have a bit of a Ghost in the Machine problem. I got a 5 year old X0-1 in mint condition, always drive it responsibly and take in account the road conditions and near by traffic. Up until today its performed marvelous with no problems what so ever. After a good run the other day, I decided to change out the batteries for the controller and the next day problems arose. I got a green light on both the controller and the receiver yet nothing moves. Let me walk that back a bit, I turn on the controller first green light. Turn on the receiver and the steering goes all the way to the right and then nothing moves. No throttle No steering. Both lights green. I’ve down countless resets, bindings, check wires, channel 1, channel 2 all ports, different batteries, recalibrations you name it. Its now beyond my skill level. To the RC shop it goes. Maybe they can figure it out.

  30. I have the light but I can’t turn or go

  31. Sanberk. says:

    Sadly this didn’t fix the issue I have a problem with the ESC having a red blinking light but whenever I turn the car back on it works but only for a few seconds. I may have thought that the battery was out of charge but it still had 70 percent left in it and I tried it for a different rc car and it worked perfectly fine

  32. Got excited there that I had found a fix but when I checked my controller it was set at the right position absolutely gutted. Looks like mine is the LVC any suggestions on how to fix that?

  33. phw340 says:

    Thanks for the video! I just picked up a new RC car and all of a sudden the throttle died on me but the steering worked. I substituted a different receiver, thinking maybe the ESC or receiver burnt out but then the ESC worked and so did the receiver so I was really confused and that’s when I noticed a blinking red light which I thought was really weird. I didn’t touch anything and then I started to get my throttle back. I did a Google search and found this video and it makes sense how you explained it. I believe when I was driving it around the other day I did have the throttle trim, turned up because I was playing around with it to see what it did. Thanks so much for explaining it and the little red, blinking light is no longer there! Thank you!

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