Turnigy Aquastar 120 ESC Instruction Manual

INSTRUCTION MANUAL

Battery

Brushless
Motor

Receiver

Throttle Lead

ESC

Water
Cooling Tube

2)Mount Speed Control in Boat

Use double-sided tape to mount the speed control in boat(do not use CA glue).

INTRODUCTION

Congratulations and thank you for purchasing Turnigy Aquastar High performance sensorless
Brushless Motor Electronic Speed Control. The Turnigy Aquastar, brushless ESC represents a
latest technologies, providing all the features and robust design qualities.

SAFETY NOTE

WARNING: This is an extremely powerful brushless motor system. We strongly

recommend you to take extreme care for your own safety before performing calibration and
programming functions with this system. Please keep your hands, hair, cloth, clear from the
propeller of an armed high performance system.

NO REVERSE VOLTAGE!

Reverse battery polarity can damage ESC & void warranty. Disconnect battery immediately if
a reverse connection occurs.

DISCONNECT BATTERIES WHEN NOT IN USE

Always disconnect the battery pack from the speed control when not in use to avoid short
circuits and possible fire hazard.

2 - 6 LI-PO CELLS ONLY

Never use fewer than 2 or more than 6 LIPO cells in the vehicle's main battery pack. The
Turnigy Aquastar handles up to 6S LIPO input (25.2 Volts MAX).

TRANSMITTER ON FIRST

Turn on the transmitter first THEN turn on the speed control.

3) Soldering Battery & Motor Connector

“ Pre-tin” the wire by heating the end and applying solder until it is thoroughly
covered.
Adding a battery connector to your swordfish 120 marine speed control.Solder the three
leads to your motor(recommended) or solder your choice of connectors to the motor and
controller leads.

CAUTION: By very careful not to splash yourself with hot solder.

4) Plugging In Motor Leads

With a brushless system, there is no polarity on the MOTOR side of the controller. After the
throttle calibration, if the motor runs backwards with forward throttle, simply swap any two
of the motor/controller connections and it will reverse the rotation of the motor.

5) Connecting to the receiver

Connect the throttle lead (the three color wires with a connector on the end) to the throttle
channel on your receiver (usually channel 2). Don’t connect a battery to the receiver, as the
Turnigy Aquastar will supply power to the receiver and servo through the throttle connector.

6) Connecting water cooling tube

Attach the input and output tubes to one end of the controller. Cut a section approximately
100mm(3.93") long and use it to connect the tubes at the opposite end of the
Turnigy Aquastar. Make sure the flexible tubes curve gently with no tight bends. Please see
the diagram below for reference.

INSULATE WIRES

Always insulate exposed wiring with heat shrink tubing or electrical tape to prevent short
circuits, which can damage ESC.

ESC CONNECTION

1)Plan Speed Control Placement

Choose a location for the speed control. To prevent radio interference place the speed
control as far away from the radio receiver as possible and keep the power wires as short
as possible.

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(Users must provide their own water cooling tube.)

Water Cooling Tube

ESC/TRANSMITER CALIBRA TION

IMPORT ANT NOTE: Calibration is necessary for the first use of the ESC, or whenever
used with a new/different transmitter.

For users with a Futaba Transmitter, you must reverse the throttle channel signal on
your transmitter. Please refer to your Futaba instructions.

Individual transmitter's signals for full throttle, full brake and neutral vary . Y ou must
calibrate your ESC so that it will operate more effectively with you transmitter.

How to Calibrate ESC

ESC switch OFF .
Turn on the Transmitter.
Hold full throttle on your transmitter and turn the ESC's switch
ON. Keep holding full throttle on the transmitter. The ESC ring
the initialization tones.
Wait 2 seconds
The motor will rings 1 second indicating full throttle measured.

The motor beeping, indicating it's time to push full brake.
Move throttle trigger to full brake and wait few seconds,
the motor rings 1second indicating full brake measure.

Programmable Features

Qu es ti on (S et ti ng )

1)Reverse Lockout

2)Forward Only(D)*

2)Motor Direction

1)Normal(D)*

2)Reverse

1)25%(D)*

2)50%(D)*

This is default setting. The actual motor direction will be
determined by how the wires are connected.

This is opposite the default direction.

The motor beeping, indicating it's time for neutral. Relax
trigger to neutral (center). The motor will now ring 1 second
to accept the neutral position.

The motor ring one second indicating that it is armed.

From this point on, when you connect batteries and turn on the switch, the ESC will
give the initialization tone, and the arming tone will ring second or two later. If the ESC
is programmed for the Auto-Lipo setting, it will beep the number of cells in you Lipo
pack between the initialization tones and the arming tones. After the arming tone plays,
the ESC will ACTIVE and will respond to the throttle application.

ESC PROGRAMMING

1)Manual Programming
Manual Programming Turnigy Aquastar is as simple as answering a few questions.The

Turnigy Aquastar asks questing by beeping a setting number, followed by the possible setting
values. There are eight settings that can be programmed in the Turnigy Aquastar.

You must answer "yes" or "no" to the setting values as they are presented by Turnigy Aquastar.
When you enter programming mode the ESC will emit a sequence of beeps that tell
you which programming step you are in. There are two parts to the beep sequence.
The first set of beeps indicates the 'Setting Number (Question), e.g. Reverse
T ype, and the second set of beeps indicates a Setting V alue, e.g. Reverse Lockout.
Answering "No" to a Setting value will cause the ESC to ask for the next value in that
section. After a "Y es" 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.

Note: If you answer "no" to all Setting V alues for a particular Setting Number , the ESC
will keep whatever value had been previously programmed. Only by answering "Y es" to
a Setting V alue will the ESC store/change that value.

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5)Disable(D)*

5)Starting Power

Note: Factory Defaults are indicated by asterisk (D)*

1)Low

2)Normal(D)*

2)High

1)Large

2)Normal(D)*

3)Small

4)V ery Small

5)Smallest

2)Auto-Lipo(D)*

5

2)Normal 10 (D)*

15

Good for almost any application and any battery type.

Best for most application with high capacity batteries.

Y ou need top quality batteries.

NiCd