Wiring Airtronics to Futaba J?
12-14-2005, 01:59 PM
#3
RE: Wiring Airtronics to Futaba J?
If these are the old style Airtronics Plugs (black with three splines) then the positive and negative leads are reversed from the Airtronics Z, Futaba J, JR and Hitec S plugs. With these old style Airtronics plugs you can insert a pin in a port on the side of the plug and the individual pin will come out. You can reverse the positive and negative in this way. However this leaves the need to file the plug caseing to fit the Futaba J port on your Rx so I do not recommend this method.
Places like Servo City sell Old Style Airtronics to Futaba J adapters or its not hard to just solder on new J plugs with pigtails. On the old style plugs the three leads are all black and the positive lead has a white stripe. The negative lead goes to the center pin, All others brands now use the centerpin as positve. Its just a matter of soldering the 'Old style' lead from the servo the one with the white stripe to the red lead of the new J plug and the black lead from the servo that was on the center pin to the black lead from the new J servo. The sense lead will not change. shrink wrap and your done. As an additional check Some of the old style Airtronics plugs are marked with numbers and the the positive lead (the one with the white stripe) is the #3 pin.
John
edit - Can,t help on where to get new arms but any supplier who sells Airtronics should have no problem helping. Never mix brands of servo arms as there are different spline counts and this can be a potential failure. If you use aftermarket arms only use those specified for Airtronics.
Just noticed you want to use these winch servos on the control surfaces of an airplane and I am not a sailor but I think this may not be advisable or even possible, a sail winch is an entirely different type of operation.
Places like Servo City sell Old Style Airtronics to Futaba J adapters or its not hard to just solder on new J plugs with pigtails. On the old style plugs the three leads are all black and the positive lead has a white stripe. The negative lead goes to the center pin, All others brands now use the centerpin as positve. Its just a matter of soldering the 'Old style' lead from the servo the one with the white stripe to the red lead of the new J plug and the black lead from the servo that was on the center pin to the black lead from the new J servo. The sense lead will not change. shrink wrap and your done. As an additional check Some of the old style Airtronics plugs are marked with numbers and the the positive lead (the one with the white stripe) is the #3 pin.
John
edit - Can,t help on where to get new arms but any supplier who sells Airtronics should have no problem helping. Never mix brands of servo arms as there are different spline counts and this can be a potential failure. If you use aftermarket arms only use those specified for Airtronics.
Just noticed you want to use these winch servos on the control surfaces of an airplane and I am not a sailor but I think this may not be advisable or even possible, a sail winch is an entirely different type of operation.
12-14-2005, 03:35 PM
#4
RE: Wiring Airtronics to Futaba J?
Should have mentioned they are model 94581, with 2 black wires and a blk/red stripe. These are the 'arm' type rather than, perhaps, you were thinking of the drum type sail winches. There are no plugs, having been cut off previously.
12-14-2005, 03:56 PM
#5
RE: Wiring Airtronics to Futaba J?
Can,t comment on the suitability of either type for airplane use. The model numbers may or may not help in the I.D. of the plugs used on these servos. there is a posibility that when the changeover was made servo model numbers were not changed, not sure. I think Airtronics made the plug changeover around eight years ago.
OK that black lead with the red stripe will be the positive. If this wire is the flat ribbon type and that lead with the red stripe is on the outside, not the middle then this servo is wired for the old style plugs and the info above is correct to wire a new J plug on.
John
OK that black lead with the red stripe will be the positive. If this wire is the flat ribbon type and that lead with the red stripe is on the outside, not the middle then this servo is wired for the old style plugs and the info above is correct to wire a new J plug on.
John
12-14-2005, 05:17 PM
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RE: Wiring Airtronics to Futaba J?
JR servo arms are the same size and spline count as Airtronics. Dubro makes heavy duty and standard replacement arms for most servos. Used to anyhow.
Here is a link to some diagrams that will help with wiring:
http://www.biggunclub.com/biggunclub...20Diagrams.htm
Here is a link to some diagrams that will help with wiring:
http://www.biggunclub.com/biggunclub...20Diagrams.htm
