How much can it handle

[tundrafan01]

Hello guys i have a question how much power can a 3raceing winch handle. I am wanting to splice its power leads. Into my novack cralwer esc and run a 2cell lipo on it. Will it handle the power or am i going to burn something up doing this. thanks guys for the help

zach

[Illeagle]

I think you might be looking at it the wrong way or wording it incorrectly. If you splice in and run the winch off of your esc then the question is "how much power can the esc handle?" You can run the 3racing winch off of it but if the winch asks for more power than the esc can supply to it then you can fry something.

Now if you are wanting to know how much voltage the 3racing winch can handle then YES you can run it directly off of a 2s lipo if its wired directly to the winch input power plug and the esc's input power plug. In other words the esc's plug and the winch input power plug should both be wired to the battery. Hope that didnt confuse you and makes sense.

[team3six]

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[tundrafan01]

thats exactly what i wanted to know and wahts the biggest mah rating can i use as well and the second one answered my question thank you

[team3six]

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[tundrafan01]

yeah but my space is tight on my scx10 honcho and i was wanting to run it with jsut one battery if it was possible

[team3six]

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[tundrafan01]

sorry im just tired i thank you for the help on this zach

[chevellian]

On my SCX10 I wired one castle bec directly too the winch and steering servo. It is only set at 6v. So far no problems, but the winch is a little slow.

[tundrafan01]

thanks i might go your route and do the bec

[Illeagle]

Originally Posted by team3six

you should wire it up like this. the 3Racing winch is rated at 7.2 Volts. but if you add a BEC and set it to run at 7.4 you should be fine.

correct me if im wrong but it looks like the winch POWER lead is getting the full 11.1v off the lipo and the signal lead is getting the voltage provided by the bec?

[team3six]

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[Illeagle]

I asked a few local buddies and they all agree with me. In that diagram you ARE getting the bec voltage to the signal wire on the winch controller but you have an 11.1v lipo wired directly to the power lead side. If that lipo was a 2s lipo or 7.4v then I believe it would be accurate but with the 3s lipo it is incorrect according the instructions that come with the winch. Have you personally ran it this way and if so for how long?

[team3six]

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[Illeagle]

First off let me start by saying I am not trying to argue about it I am just trying to understand it. Do you see that you are running the full 11.1 directly to the power input leads of the winch control? The bec AND the winch controller are both getting the full 11.1v input voltage. Then the bec output voltage is going to the reciever which in turn is sending the BEC's 6v to the esc,thr, and winch signal wire side. I just want to make sure that is the way you see it also. The signal wire side is regulated to the bec's voltage but the input wires are not. Correct? In the manual it only shows you being able to allow 7.2v input power and not 11.1v to the power leads:

[team3six]

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[Illeagle]

so your going to tell me if I put a volt meter on the controller board where the 11.1v wires are directly wired to the 11.1v input from the battery it will only show 6v?

That castle link does show the bec powering a reciever but it is nothing like your diagram. Yours shows the bec only feeding the signal wire side with 6v but not the power lead side which is connected to 11.1v. Im not debating the fact that your bec is powering your entire system via the 6v bec I am only confused about the fact that you have the power lead side UNREGULATED period and running 11.1 volts to it. Please look at the diagram one more time for me and see if you see where the 11.1 goes directly into the winch controller.

[team3six]

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[Illeagle]

Here I took your diagram and wrote in BLUE TEXT on the wire that is supplying 11.1v to the controller board:



and YES the red and black that is soldered to the bec red and black from the controller board is the one I am saying is getting 11.1v. That is the INPUT side of the bec where the 11.1v is going INTO the bec and being stepped down to the 6v on the output side that goes to the reciever.

[team3six]

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