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01-09-2011, 06:23 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: In the Dark Edges of your Mind
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|  BEC (Y plug or Solder)
I have been using a Y plug for the BEC / Servo connection since I built my junk. My plug is all worn out and causing some power loss problems. Have many of you just cut and soldered the bec wires straight to the servo wires? That seems like the simplest way. Are there any problems with doing it that way? Or is it advisable to just pick up another Y plug somewhere? Thanks  |
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01-09-2011, 09:25 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: May 2010 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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the biggest issues with this would be the difficulty of changing out the components, or reprogramming the BEC, functionally it should not be an issue, just a PITA.
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01-09-2011, 10:09 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Hayesville
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I didn this same thing with mine. It is somewhat of a PITA but only took me about 10 min to change voltage output on mine. I forgot to change it before soldering it up  So I had to figure it out pretty early on.
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01-09-2011, 10:17 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Deep in Swing Town
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The only issue i see would be that if your servo is still under warranty i not sure if they will honor the warranty seeing that the plug's been cut and wired direct..../..............just a guess.....though... just get another Y harness.... been running one now for months with no problem..... |
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01-09-2011, 10:39 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Albuquerque
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Just solder it to your ESC battery wires.....
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01-09-2011, 12:13 PM
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| Rock Crawler   Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Lititz
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I usually wire it strait up. Wired strait: Pro's- nice clean and neat, dependable. Con's- pita to for any changes Y-connector: Pro's- simple plug and play, easy changes. Con's- extra wire to deal with, have to buy part, more connections to fail. |
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01-09-2011, 01:18 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: San Francisco
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I just pull the signal wire out of the connector on the servo and plug that straight to the receiver. Then I put a female connector on the bec and just plug the servos connector into the bec's shiny new female connector. I wouldnt hard wire it because then you wont be able to unplug everything...It just makes it easier to work on stuff that way. |
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01-09-2011, 07:13 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: In the Dark Edges of your Mind
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Nice idea | |
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