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Technical, Techniques, Hints, and Tips => The "Black Arts!" ( Electrics & Electronics ) => Topic started by: markrider on October 21, 2016, 10:34:04 pm

Title: 3 x esc on one receiver
Post by: markrider on October 21, 2016, 10:34:04 pm
Hi so my ballast tanks I have sorted and understood .
But now I'm on to bow/stern thruster
  So 1 receiver 1 esc for motor , 1 esc for bow thruster and 1 for stern thruster
 Do I cut the red receiver wire on 2 of 3 the esc?
The thrusters will be on 1 battery the motor on the other.
 Is that right or any other way to do the same job ? Thanks
Mark
Title: Re: 3 x esc on one receiver
Post by: inertia on October 22, 2016, 08:47:11 am
Do I cut the red receiver wire on 2 of 3 the esc?
Yes.
DM
Title: Re: 3 x esc on one receiver
Post by: markrider on October 22, 2016, 08:56:23 am
Great thanks thought so just wanted to check
Title: Re: 3 x esc on one receiver
Post by: inertia on October 22, 2016, 09:31:40 am
You may need them 'intact' at some time in the future. This shows a method which doesn't involve cutting the wires. http://www.action-electronics.co.uk/pdfs/Disabling%20BEC%20ESCs.pdf (http://www.action-electronics.co.uk/pdfs/Disabling%20BEC%20ESCs.pdf)
DM
Title: Re: 3 x esc on one receiver
Post by: markrider on October 22, 2016, 10:50:08 am
Are great that's handy thanks.
Title: Re: 3 x esc on one receiver
Post by: kinmel on October 22, 2016, 11:18:49 am
I remove the red wire from a short extension lead and connect that into the esc.  Then swapping things out is straight forward.
Title: Re: 3 x esc on one receiver
Post by: malcolmfrary on October 23, 2016, 07:23:27 pm
I remove the red wire from a short extension lead and connect that into the esc.  Then swapping things out is straight forward.
Give that man an "A" and a yellow star.  Perhaps somebody like Component Shop might slip something like that into their inventory.
Title: Re: 3 x esc on one receiver
Post by: inertia on October 23, 2016, 11:34:24 pm
Give that man an "A" and a yellow star.  Perhaps somebody like Component Shop might slip something like that into their inventory.
Q.
Just how difficult is it to pull a brass pin/socket out of a plug, given an illustration of the process?
A.
Nearly as difficult as it is to put it back, it seems.

Words rarely fail me, but...  :-X
DM
Title: Re: 3 x esc on one receiver
Post by: markrider on October 24, 2016, 07:25:24 am
 Haha :-)
Title: Re: 3 x esc on one receiver
Post by: kinmel on October 24, 2016, 07:30:53 am
Q.
Just how difficult is it to pull a brass pin/socket out of a plug, given an illustration of the process?
A.
Nearly as difficult as it is to put it back, it seems.

Words rarely fail me, but...  :-X
DM

Each to their own.

It is not about how difficult one method is, it is about which method is the quickest and simplest.   


Title: Re: 3 x esc on one receiver
Post by: Netleyned on October 24, 2016, 07:50:25 am
Th extension lead would be handy for testing purposes when swapping things around,
but in a permanent installation you are just adding an extra connection/failure point
into the circuit.
Just my take on the subject.


Ned
Title: Re: 3 x esc on one receiver
Post by: inertia on October 24, 2016, 08:39:15 am
Each to their own.

It is not about how difficult one method is, it is about which method is the quickest and simplest.
For that to be the case then someone else would have had to remove the red wire from the plug moulding of the extension lead first, surely? And then you need to make two plugged connections instead of one...
Ned has a valid point about introducing potential failure; the more connectors the more chance of failure.
DM