Newbie here with a problem

[pacman]

Hi all. I'm new to this lark, having been given a 2nd hand Venom Night ranger 3D. Actually, when I say I'm new, I'm coming back to this after a bit of a lay off - when I last flew a heli there were no such things as gyros and the Graupner (?) jet ranger was the one to have.

Any how - back to my problem: The heli needed a new rotor head which was no problem,and I have got it all set up. Servos all work ok, however I have no power to the main or tail motors. The moors run fine if they are connected straight to a power source so originally I thought , Ah ha! the esc inthe rx is burnt out, so I replaced the whole rx with with one from a walkera 22E (The same, I believe) but the problem persists. All servos work fine, just no power to the motors!

The venom instructions are pretty useless so I also got hold of the walkeea ones and what has further confused me is that I was led to believe that the rx incorporated the esc, but on the Walkera rx there is a point to connect a separate esc. So am I actually missing the esc.

Confused a dazed now. And I thought a simple electric heli would be a good place to get back into this!

Any thoughts and advice welcome. Cheers

[Boggy]

the esc is inside the 4in1 control unit. the spare esc port is for a brushless conversion .
check that you are plugging the battery in after lowering the throttle and trim to there lowest position. and also the 3d mode switch is set to normal (up iirc)

[pacman]

Ah ha, thanks for that. Also found that the dipswitches on the back of the tx were not in their correct positions so now I have power.

[jiberjaber]

Pacman - I notice your in Chelmsford, where do you fly?