bvoltz

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Can anyone point me in the direction of purchasing the ends to crimp on for a fan to plug into the speedo. I need to free up space in the RX and want to plug in the motor fan to the speedo fan port...

I have attached a picture to show you the connector...

JoeyE

iTrader: (45)

Is it something like this?



http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LXBNDE&P=7

You can always cut your connector off and extend the wired and solder it to your esc (+)&(-).

bvoltz

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Thanks... I will give this a try....

Skiddins

No, they are too big.

The wires for a receiver are usually 26AWG etc, the picture shows 20AWG.

Will have a look at work

Mike Mandio

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http://www.hansenhobbies.com/product...iscconnectors/

syndr0me

iTrader: (32)

It looks a lot like a JST-XH 2 pin, but it's too big. I gave up trying to figure it out. Also, the JST pin crimper is like $1200. Try digikey?

bvoltz

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The red ones are not it for sure... I have some of these and they do not fit...

Rick Hohwart

Generally motor fans are connected directly to the battery (at + and - on the ESC) to take advantage of the full battery voltage rather than the lower BEC voltage.

defcone

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I read somewhere that the port is stabilised, whereas when you run mod motors and solder fans soldered directly to battery terminals, the fan slows down when you apply throttle.

bvoltz

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Thanks everyone, I think I will go that route....

Skiddins

I think the best option wouild be to cut the wires off a fan you aren't using and solder the wires with connector onto the new fan.

silencery

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It's Rick Hohwart. I would go with what he's saying

I don't disagree there's probably some value in power stability supplied by a receiver, BUT i would like to share a problem I've recently run into with my rx-powered fan.

On my radiopost receiver, the fan turned out to be drawing so much amperage, it would inconsistently cause a total loss of control. I've since unplugged the fan and the problem went away. This didn't happen on my other car (which had a larger capacitor), so it was a pain to troubleshoot.

Direct hookup is definitely the way to go.