Originally Posted by
MaJ. Woody
Thanks for the feedback! I have been reading over the manual for the control module and was getting a bit confused on the input power. My plan was to use the same battery to power the Gear as the Turbines ECU. The manual mentioned something about the steering servo drawing too much power and causing the receiver to restart if plumbed incorrectly. It also mentioned cutting some wires to avoid this. I was planning to run my steering servo right to the receiver not through the control module. How did you wire your battery and servo?
Thanks!
Don't be confused young man!! I have 2 RX batteries. They are 2S, 4000Mah Lipos, sitting in the pockets either side of the nosewheel. Batt 1 plugs directly to the 12120 powersafe RX, batt 2 plugs into a Y. One side of the Y plugs into the 2nd input of the 12120, the other side of the Y plugs into the Xicoy. My ECU batt sits way up in the nose area to balance out the CG. That batt is plugged directly to the ECU. As far as wiring goes, the NWS servo is plugged into the Xicoy into STEER OUT slot, so that when the gear is up, NWS servo is OFF, it automatically shuts the servo off with gear up. Through the data terminal, you can setup centering, gain (how far left/right you want your nosewheel to move) and direction of operation. STEER IN, BRAKE IN and GEAR IN on the Xicoy slots plug into your RX via a servo wire that has 2 male ends, you get those with your Xicoy. DATA T is where you plug your VERY HANDY data terminal into for setup. I cut no wires whatsoever. I used a 4 way Ashlock connector to plug into my wing from the Xicoy. 1 wire each for L and R GEAR UP/DOWN, 1 wire each for L and R brake. At the end of my maiden day Sunday, I had 4 flights on her. I measured power used from each RX batt and the voltage from each cell to see the power draw for EVERYTHING, each battery had the same amount of power remaining, all cells were balanced. If I remember right, I had about 70% batt remaining on each battery, very little power draw on 4 flights. Hope this helps. PM me if you need help with this whole shoot'n match!!!