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08-01-2009, 01:25 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Windsor, UK
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Hi I'm looking at how I can manually control my winch and LED lights as I only have a 3ch radio and no channels free. Has anyone made scale switches eg for working the winch from outside of the car next to where the winch is installed? How about for LED lights? I was thinking for those to maybe have a hidden switch inside a scale box or something but I'm not sure. |
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08-01-2009, 01:53 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Sebastopol CA
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I've seen a few people mount switches for their lights in the center console of their interior so that they look like shifter's. Not sure on the winch though.... |
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08-01-2009, 02:40 PM
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I just did mine up lastnight on my CC01 Defender. I used an old switch that came with one of my old Nitros, soldered the leads to the wires off the LEDs and the other side was soldered to a 9v battery plug. I mounted the switch inside the interior and its hidden from site, yet in easy access. Its also all mounted to the body, so when I take it off the chassis, there are no wires holding it to the chassis. You could also solder the LED leads into the plug for your ESC, so when the battery is plugged in, they are always on. |
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08-01-2009, 03:08 PM
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i used an old orginal tmaxx hand held starter box and the square plugs to control my winch. i made the wire 6ft long from the starter box to the plug. i gutted out the control box to add a dpdt switch to control direction and strapped some 2/3a batteries to it. on the bumper of the rig i used the other end of the square plug to plug into. i used a hitec 645 for the winch motor after getting rid of the pot and pcb and used only the gears and motor.
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08-01-2009, 03:36 PM
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There are lots of ways to do it. I used button batteries that come with the dollar store LED lights, made a tool box as a holder, and hid the switch in the lid of a little grill thingy I made, just press the grill lid and the lights are on or off.   |
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08-06-2009, 06:38 AM
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yeah, that hidden switch was what I had in mind for my LEDs. No idea if I can do it or not, but you never know until you try, right? For my winch I want to do something similar, but mount a small surface-mount button painted red on a yellow winch control mounted next to the winch. any recommendations for something I can practice on? I don't want to start cutting up my CR01 body until I'm fairly confident I won't mess it up. Can I use something like a soda bottle to drill through and mount stuff on to practice? |
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08-08-2009, 09:34 AM
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on my highlift i put LED's on it this week, and i bought some small toggle switches to control them for on and off. And i mounted by taking a small sheet of aluminum and mounting the swtiches on there. Now i have a switch board where it's easy to acess but is still hidden so it looks scale  I got the idea from this build mine isn't anywhere near as clean as this: MBA Tundra tow rig Last edited by treeafodo; 08-08-2009 at 09:40 AM. |
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08-08-2009, 10:00 AM
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hadn't thought about mounting underneath. Not sure where I'd put them on a CR01 but I'll have a look. And I wish you hadn't linked to an awesome Tundra build, I'm getting that itch in my wallet again...  |
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