ORIGINAL: Kelly W
ORIGINAL: Meesh
I have switches on my PST Turbines. They come that way from the factory. It's a Toggle switch like you could buy at Radio Shack.
Just to clarify... The switches used in PST turbines (and others using GB Hobby ECU's as I understand it) are a dual pole type, where both circuits are used to conduct the positive lead to the battery. The use of the dual pole switch in this manner acts to give the system redundancy. The Ground is always connected to the battery so long as the Deans Ultra connectors are together. The reasoning for using a switch at all likely relates to the fact that the majority (if not all) of the circuitry in the ECU is powered by the ECU pack, and not the RX pack.
Kelly
Kelly...I agree that the majority of the TCU is powered by the TCU pack but as it was explained to me (in simple terms so I can understand it) it is the RX power that actually 'turns the TCU on' so to speak. If this is in fact the case, even with the TCU battery plugged in the TCU will still not see or draw any current. This is just for the sake of discussion, to each his own of course....Ron (I didn't use the switches when I was running Gb's)