dasintex

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I am putting together another Warbird Arf; on my previous Warbird Arf's I have made compartments with hatches to hide the Switches, Charge Ports, etc. On this newest project I want to make it simple; I will be using Mechanical Retracts, and I may have 3 batteries; RX, Retract Servo and On Board Glow; all will need a switch and ways to charge these 3 batteries; my plan was to place a Switch/Charge Port Combo Unit for the RX, through the Fuselage; as for the other 2 batteries, I can leave the Charge ports/leads on the inside of the fuse and charge when the wing is off, before I go to the field, etc; the On Board Glow will have an alternate port as a remote glow in the event the onboard glow battery runs down; is there a way I can turn on the Retract and On board Glow Batteries remotely using my Radio, my thought was to mount micro servos with a small push rods to the toggles of normal RX/Battery Switches and plug these servos into unused channels and turn the switches on that way; or is there another way to accomplish the same without mounting them through the fuselage or making a Compartment, etc?

I can live with the RX Switch being mounted through the Fuselage.

huck1199

I think I saw an electronic switch for sale recently. I can't remember where. You plug it in to rour receiver nd operate it from a transmiter switch. If you could power both the glow and retracts from one battery this may make sense; the switch was expensive ($40-$50). The switch it self is power by your main battery. This would reduce your switch count to one.

saramos

I've seen where an antenna mast is used to activate power switches. It simply hides a wire extension that flips the power switch, or even ganged power switches. Another option is to make a functional hatch in a scale location.

Scott

A6Ordie

[link=http://www.dimensionengineering.com/BattleSwitch.htm]Here[/link] these guys have a radio operated switch. They have 2 versions that handle different loads.[link=http://www.futurlec.com/RelSS.shtml]Here[/link] is a site that has some relays that might work. You probably already know this, but a relay is just an electrically operated switch. You could have one manual switch activate a bunch of relays. Even have the manual switch operate a couple and the receiver switch operate a couple. If you have a bigger load than the receiver switch can handle, you can use the receiver switch to operate the relay which can handle the load. You might even check with a local electronics supplier. They might be able to find you a nice solid state relay set up that will work with the voltages we run.

I think maybe I got to detailed, but hopefully you will find something useful in my ramblings.