Hi I'm new to this forum and have just aquired a part built large model of a battle ship. It came with 4 scews (opposite pitch either side) powered by 4 motors and 4 speed controllers so I have a couple of questions. 1) Is it OK to connect 4 controllers to one reciever using Y leads. 2) I have looked at the wiring diagram of 2 batteries to feed two esc's in parallel and it seems that a double up of this controlled by one reciever would work if 1) is possible.
sounds like something American, (iowa, maybe) or the Yamato. I have the Yamato and what I have done, is use 2esc's and 4 motors. running off 1 battery.
to make the loom, I used a terminal strip.
1/ take feed FROM battery and put it in the terminal strip, (centre is good)
2/ remove tamiya plugs from esc. join the RED wire of each, solder together and mate with the RED wire of the battery feed using the terminal strip.
3/ join black wires from esc together and mate to the BLACK wire of the battery feed using the terminal strip.
this will form a Y-lead for the power.
4/then take the YELLOW wires, cut off the plug and bare wire and screw down intot he terminal blocks.
5/take the BLUE wires and cut off the plugs and bare the wires, screw down into the terminal blocks.
you shoulld go YELLOW BLUE BLACK RED BLUE YELLOW .
motors have a + and a - tab, and it is usually marked with a spot by one of the terminals.
6/ take two motors, and solder a brown or yellow wire to the side with the spot
7 take two more motors, solder a brown or yellow wire to the side WITHOUT the spot
8 on the terminals that are left solder a BLUE wire.
9 take the blue wires off one pair of motors (spot positive), and pair up with a speed controller blue wire
10 take the blue wires off the other pair (spot negative) and pair up with a speed controller blue wire. this will have the negative side done.
11 the spot positive pair, mate up its denoted positive wire to the yellow wire of the corresponding esc.
12 the spot negative pair, mate up its denoted positive wire to its corressponding esc.
this is now done and should look like the pics.
those other two esc's, save em, use in another boat