Help with Hitec RX Please
 

I have a 6 channel Hitec RX and I need to hook-up 6 servos but the 6th channel is marked "Batt/CH6". If I hook up all the servos where does the battery go? Can someone please help me? it didn't come with a manual to explain this.

RE: Help with Hitec RX Please
 

Use a Y harness and plug the battery into one side of the y, a servo into the other and the male end of the Y into the RX.

RE: Help with Hitec RX Please
 

Ditto what oldvet70 said. I've done this on everal airplanes of mine without issue.

RE: Help with Hitec RX Please
 

Just a thought but it has always bothered me that the manufactures always call a RX so many channels but they call the battery slot a CH too and count it in??

RE: Help with Hitec RX Please
 

All comes down to manufacturing costs and going after the greatest margin of what the market is willing to spend.

RE: Help with Hitec RX Please
 

It used to be that many/most RX had a dedicated Battery slot that was not counted as one of the channels. But since it is possible to Y a battery in with a servo I think that profit margin and to a lesser extent size, IE it's possible to do and it makes the RX smaller and lighter, have caused the change we see today.

RE: Help with Hitec RX Please
 

It's a power bus you can plug it into any open channel slot or Y it with a servo.

RE: Help with Hitec RX Please
 

Ok, that makes more sense. Thanks for the help guys. These forums are great!!!