Looking to make my own wireless light/winch controller

[yokramer]

Has anyone done this? I've seen Heyoks mentioned quite often as well as a few others but I wanted to try my hand at it since modifying and tinkering is the name of the RC game yea? Got an Everest 10 a few days ago and having a blast with it so far. Buying a new body soon and wand to add lights/winch and maybe lockers/2 speed transfer case to it that I may want to put on separate channels.



Ive found a bunch of the 4 channel remote switches on amazon but all of the receivers are pretty massive and all 12v which feels wrong to me. I would think you would want one more in the 6v range.



Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Greatscott]

I the part of RC most of us around here like best are the guys that do custom work. It is great to see unique gear on rigs. For a lot of us, we find our niche for customization and run with it. For me, it is 3D design and printed, along with custom light/electronics set ups. But, I know when to cry "uncle". I could design my own circuits, I have been in electronics for a long time, but for me it is not worth my time to reinvent a wheel that is well-rounded. More than likely I will not be able to design a remote on/off switch any better, or any more reliably that Hey-OK, and there are other things to take up my time. But, this is just my take on it.

For you, it sounds like you are trying to take off-the-shelf remote systems and adapt them to RC. I am not sure if this will cause problems or not, especially with inmixing diddling with frequencies that my interfere with your normal RC controller. I am not sure how well this is going to work, and you might do better going from the ground up. Or, get an Amazon key-fob lighting/winch controller and see if you can modify it.

Whatever you come up with, post it up, we love to see custom work.

 

[kincer]

Very simple, buy yourself a cheap four pack of 360 degree continuous servos, MG full size servos, usually around $25 for 4, disassemble servo, unsolder motor from circuit board, connect accessory to terminals that went to the motor, plug into receiver and bam winch controller or light controller. I have these on all my winches, they work great, no drift.

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[Timmahh]

Take an old servo. and remove the circuit board, then remove the motor and solder on a JST Connector. now heat shrink the circuit board to close it up leaving the 2 wires out. then plug the rx end into the receiver channel, and the other end can run a set of lights, servo. or some other on/off function.

 

[yokramer]

Very simple, buy yourself a cheap four pack of 360 degree continuous servos, MG full size servos, usually around $25 for 4, disassemble servo, unsolder motor from circuit board, connect accessory to terminals that went to the motor, plug into receiver and bam winch controller or light controller. I have these on all my winches, they work great, no drift.

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Take an old servo. and remove the circuit board, then remove the motor and solder on a JST Connector. now heat shrink the circuit board to close it up leaving the 2 wires out. then plug the rx end into the receiver channel, and the other end can run a set of lights, servo. or some other on/off function.

What transmitter/receiver do you use or recoomend? All the wireless ones Ive found the receivers are massive. Not there probably isnt room in the body but Id like to find a smallish one.

 

[Timmahh]

Using a circuit board out of a servo, you don't need a wireless controller. The servo board will drive the winch or turn on/off the lights.
Just plug it into an aux channel and go.

if you want to have a wireless fob to run the winch, then, you should just buy one from evilzon with a receiver unit. Otherwise you can operate the winch with an aux channel, just have to set the channel up to give the signal to spin one way or the other.

There are some good youtube vids on converting an old servo to use as a on/off or winch switch.

 

[kincer]

What transmitter/receiver do you use or recoomend? All the wireless ones Ive found the receivers are massive. Not there probably isnt room in the body but Id like to find a smallish one.

Timmahh explained it very well, I use a Hacked Flysky radio but any radio with a 3 position 3rd channel will work, I've used the Element RTR radios as well to run a winch they will do the trick as well.