Granite Can a fan be connected to the mega srs?

[dure16]

Granite voltage. Considering a fan for my upgraded motor.

I have a voltage alarm connected to my lipo so need somewhere else to connect a fan. Can it be connected somehow directly to the stock esc/receiver? Or some other way?

 

[RCBro80]

You can use the bind port on the receiver for this. Alternately, if you're comfortable soldering, you can buy a set of balance lead extenders from Amazon and splice them together to create a "Y" (I did this myself to run fans and a voltage alarm from the battery balance leads - because I'm running 12V fans and the BEC voltage wasn't high enough to get decent RPM)

 

[L3phturn]

You can use the bind port on the receiver for this. Alternately, if you're comfortable soldering, you can buy a set of balance lead extenders from Amazon and splice them together to create a "Y" (I did this myself to run fans and a voltage alarm from the battery balance leads - because I'm running 12V fans and the BEC voltage wasn't high enough to get decent RPM)

One more reason to run 2 3S batteries instead of one 6S. Pretty sure 24 volts would be bad for those fans. Or maybe they would just run really really fast. Hmmm. I want to test that. (Outside in the driveway with the fan not connected to a car with wire cutters in hand and a fire extinguisher.)

 

[RCBro80]

One more reason to run 2 3S batteries instead of one 6S. Pretty sure 24 volts would be bad for those fans. Or maybe they would just run really really fast. Hmmm. I want to test that. (Outside in the driveway with the fan not connected to a car with wire cutters in hand and a fire extinguisher.)

Haha, they're good up to 17V... I suspect they'd die going far north of 20V... but I'm not sure what would fail first (motor windings? PCB?).

Oh, and if I were connecting to a 6S battery, I'd put a voltage regulator in line to give the desired voltage.

 

[slick2500]

Granite voltage. Considering a fan for my upgraded motor.

I have a voltage alarm connected to my lipo so need somewhere else to connect a fan. Can it be connected somehow directly to the stock esc/receiver? Or some other way?

If you are still running the stock servo, make sure the fan uses this type of connector and plug it into the 3 wire servo port.

You can use the bind port on the receiver for this. Alternately, if you're comfortable soldering, you can buy a set of balance lead extenders from Amazon and splice them together to create a "Y" (I did this myself to run fans and a voltage alarm from the battery balance leads - because I'm running 12V fans and the BEC voltage wasn't high enough to get decent RPM)

Voltage doesn't have a bind port or a receiver.

 

[RCBro80]

Voltage doesn't have a bind port or a receiver.

I wondered that... noted for next time it comes up!

 

[RCBro80]

You can use the bind port on the receiver for this. Alternately, if you're comfortable soldering, you can buy a set of balance lead extenders from Amazon and splice them together to create a "Y" (I did this myself to run fans and a voltage alarm from the battery balance leads - because I'm running 12V fans and the BEC voltage wasn't high enough to get decent RPM)

Here is the wire harness I made (note that I have adapted to a molex connector series to work with fans we use at work). The black tube in the middle is an inline fuse holder (with a 0.5A fuse) I added to protect the battery 'just in case' something shorts out.

 

[TheDudeAbides]

Granite voltage. Considering a fan for my upgraded motor.

I have a voltage alarm connected to my lipo so need somewhere else to connect a fan. Can it be connected somehow directly to the stock esc/receiver? Or some other way?

Plug it into the 3 wire servo pins. If you have something there get a set of Y connectors.