GATO! (It has begun)

[matthewnimmo]

While i'm waiting on an answer from super Dave. I have another question related to the BEC (the separate ugly one). There are to sets of wires attached to it. Obviously the first set that was bare i had wired up to the red dean's male connector (along with other components) on the aft side. But the other set of wires that terminates to a nice RX connector ... what do i do with that? Do i need to use that since i've solder the other end to the dean's connector? Or do need to attach it to my receiver ... say channel 5? I'm making sure i have all of this connected correctly before throwing the "big switch"

Thoughts?

[matthewnimmo]

Hey David, thanks for looking into this. Any word from Mike on what to do?

Thanks again,

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

I'll talk with Mike tomorrow and we'll work to get this resolved. Thanks for the heads up on this, Matt.

M

[vital.spark]

Interesting as I can use a 72mhz module!

[matthewnimmo]

Good news, I've got my male red dean connector switch on the aft side ...

But

I decided to take a look at my radio and receiver like you mentioned David and it is 72mhz on the back of the transmitter and so are the crystals:( Who do i contact from sub-driver.com to send me the right component and crystals?

See pic below


I can give you guys pics of the crystals too if needed; but as of right now i have a 72mhz trx/rx not a 75mhz.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Yes sir!!! Stupid pain in the ass wires. Getting close though for sure

Hey, you're doing this right. You checked with us, you checked with the mulit-meter, and when you did not get the polarity you thought you should have, you asked for help. You did not go in stupidly throwing the big hairy, Frankenstein knife-switch -- which would have fried everything and set the atmosphere on fire (with apologies to Teller) killing us all. You wanted to be sure. You played it safe ... though I know it was killing you to throw the switch. You made the smart move.

Good man!

I'll sign your Card.

M

[matthewnimmo]

Yes sir!!! Stupid pain in the ass wires. Getting close though for sure

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Oh please tell me theres a different option? That was the biggest pain in the ass to solder with so many wires going to those poles

Suck it up, GATO-boy. Fire up the soldering iron and get to work!

M

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Oh please tell me theres a different option? That was the biggest pain in the ass to solder with so many wires going to those poles

Suck it up, GATO-boy. Fire up the soldering iron and get to work!

M

[trout]

As you work on it, just remember the "t" of the deans plug is positive.

[matthewnimmo]

You got the male Dean's plug at the after dry space end ass-backwards. Swap the wires to the poles on the plug and you're good.

M

Oh please tell me theres a different option? That was the biggest pain in the ass to solder with so many wires going to those poles

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

You got the male Dean's plug at the after dry space end ass-backwards. Swap the wires to the poles on the plug and you're good.

M

[matthewnimmo]

Ok guys, here are some pictures to describe everything just to be super clear before testing any further.

1) The red arrow as you can see is taking the batteries red line down through the main line through the WTC (the main line section used is the side with the black stripe)

2) This is the same line on the other side of the WTC (notice the black stripe on the wire ... so its still the red lead from the battery).

3) Can you guys see my problem now? I'm pretture sure that i need to flip the wiring from picture number one; but I've been seeing positives and negatives too long today that i just need a fresh pair of eyes. See the arrows are pointing to the Black leads to the rest of my devices (ESC, LIPO, etc).

4) Volt reading directly from the battery. Red needle to red lead on battery and black needle to black lead on battery. 11.1v

5) Volt reading from the end of the wire that goes through the WTC after the switch is turned on. I have to put the red needle to what would be the BLACK connection to the rest of my sub components, and the black needle to the red connection:(

Plausible conclusion

If i'm correct that i've F'd up the polarity ... is it as simple as switch those two wires around? I'm thinking yes?

Thanks everyone!

[trout]

Yes there is something wrong! From battery to BEC and ESC. The BEC output to all the other devices.
Edit Note: I am getting myself confused..........not trying to add to the craziness, sorry.

[crazygary]

Look closely at the Deans connectors and you can see that they can't be wired in an identical fashion!

A single prong on one and and two prongs on the other. If you wire them the same, once you connect them together,
you'll end up with mismatched polarities.

Whichever way you wire the connector to your battery, note which wire lines up with the single prong on
the other side. Wire the other connector opposite of the way you wired the first one. When they're connected together,
black will be to black, and red will be to red.

A simple mistake to make, but also a simple fix!

CG