real battery voltage through telemetry
#1
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I am using sanwa electronics and allways see on telemetry 6.0 volts.
I wonder if there is any way to see the real battery voltage at the transmitter because car stops without battery and sanwa is saying 6.0 - 5.9 volts yet.
I wonder if there is any way to see the real battery voltage at the transmitter because car stops without battery and sanwa is saying 6.0 - 5.9 volts yet.
#2
Which radio and receiver specifically? You probably won't be able to do it without an external voltage sensor.
#3
What you see is the BEC voltage. More useful for nitro drivers, not quite so much for electric. Unless you have special electronics, it's all your receiver can see.
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I love this feature on my futaba 10px. I can see everything that my esc sees. I can see the battery voltage so I know how much charger % and run time is left on the car as well as receiver voltage, motor temp, motor rpm, esc temp so much more.
I do t know about sanwa but for my futaba 10px they make a small $30 adapter that one end plugs into my hobbywing esu and the other end plugs into the futaba receiver so I can see all the esc info on the radio
if you look at my picture I sent the larger center gauge to by the cars battery voltage.
I do t know about sanwa but for my futaba 10px they make a small $30 adapter that one end plugs into my hobbywing esu and the other end plugs into the futaba receiver so I can see all the esc info on the radio
if you look at my picture I sent the larger center gauge to by the cars battery voltage.
Last edited by riceball777; 05-25-2024 at 06:39 PM.
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One way to have it, if your receiver and servo supports the battery voltage is to solder a servo cable's red and black wires to the positive and negative of your battery connector. then, disconnect the red wire (+) from your ESC wire. This way, your receiver will run out of the battery and what you'll have is the main battery voltage and not the BEC voltage. Of course, like I said, your receiver and servo must support the battery voltage so anything outside of 1s or 2s is bound not to work and may fry your receiver and servo.
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One way to have it, if your receiver and servo supports the battery voltage is to solder a servo cable's red and black wires to the positive and negative of your battery connector. then, disconnect the red wire (+) from your ESC wire. This way, your receiver will run out of the battery and what you'll have is the main battery voltage and not the BEC voltage. Of course, like I said, your receiver and servo must support the battery voltage so anything outside of 1s or 2s is bound not to work and may fry your receiver and servo.
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I love this feature on my futaba 10px. I can see everything that my ecu sees. I can see the battery voltage so I know how much charger % and run time is left on the car as well as receiver voltage, motor temp, motor rpm, esc temp so much more.
I do t know about sanwa but for my futaba 10px they make a small $30 adapter that one end plugs into my hobbywing esu and the other end plugs into the futaba receiver so I can see all the esc info on the radio
if you look at my picture I sent the larger center gauge to by the cars battery voltage.
I do t know about sanwa but for my futaba 10px they make a small $30 adapter that one end plugs into my hobbywing esu and the other end plugs into the futaba receiver so I can see all the esc info on the radio
if you look at my picture I sent the larger center gauge to by the cars battery voltage.
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i see sanwa receivers nominal input voltaje is 4.8 to 7.4v, it will be a problem.
#12
A LiPo nominal voltage is 7.4V. It'll work fine. Nitro users regularly plug a LiPo directly into the receiver.
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