Frag

Hi guys,

a friend of mine gave me a little red AMB transponder, but the connector are not on it (he had to cut and I have just 2 wires hanging out now). I wonder where I can hook it up?

Thanks in advance!

Aggdaddy

You may have to do a little soldering.

Your best bet is to splice into the throttle servo wire.
You know, red to red and black to black.

Your friend should have told you this too.

j240z

Otherwise you can use a servo connector and plug it into a spare channel on your receiver. This is they way it would come brand new - with the servo connector. I still have the instruction sheet for mine. I will try to post it here.

Frag

Do you know if I can buy a Y connector that would split a unique connection in 2 connectors?

That would do a cleaner job.

If not, I will go in soldering. I have no problem with that. I was just wondering where to connect it to not affect any servos.

I already have a fail safe on the throttle link. Do you think that it will affect it?

Frag

Ho!!!

That make sense! Do you know if there is always juice on the third channel plug!?

Aggdaddy

Oh, I didn't know you had a third channel.

That would be better than putting three devices on one channel.

Just solder on another plug and plug it in. Third channel should be "hot".

I only have two channels on my receiver and I have a fail safe on the throttle. but I spliced into the steering servo for the transponder. Everything works great though.

Frag

My transmitter has only 2 channels ...but my receiver on the car is 3 channels ready. It's why I wonder if the 3rd channel plug will be turned on....

Aggdaddy

Well the transponder just needs power, and there's no way to turn off a particular channel on the receiver. So I'm pretty sure that it'll be on.

When you apply power to the receiver, everything is on. Your transmitter just sends a signal.

Frag

Thanks Aggdaddy!!!

I'll try it for sure (wonder how I will know if the transponder in on a home though) and confirm later.

Thanks again guys!

sook

If it is the small amb red transponder, it will have a small led yellowish light on top when the power is supplied to it properly.

j240z

YES! if your receiver has power it will power all the channels! And as sook said the yellow led on the transponder will be on!

Rob Hochberg

Or it will light up green if it's the older version.

Frag

A little solder and it works in the 3rd plug guys!

Thanks a lot...