I'm in the middle of building a tribute 3D plane and was wondering where I could get a wiring diagram of a typical setup for this type of plane,I am using the following:

Hitec flight pack
li-poly 1320mAH/11.1 V battery
e flite park 370 brushless motor
20 amp speed control

any help would be appreciated,

which part are you wondering, that should be a fairly straight forward setup

I always thought it was pretty foolproof, but it looks like I've been proven wrong.[sm=surprised.gif]

what exactly are you saying,who's post is foolish,I think it is a good question to ask if you're not sure exactly what you're doing.I could just start connecting wires and hope for the best,as a matter of fact I'm going to get right on that,maybe even blindfolded,that would be a hoot.

If you can take a good pic before you plug in any power we could verify it for you.

Biggest thing is probably be sure you solder connectors on the esc for your battery with the correct polarity. The 3 motor to esc wires just plug them in any order... if the motor spins backwards, just swap any two.

esc connection to the receiver is likely channel 3 and the black wire on the servo connectors is ground and is usually the connector on the rx that is "down" or pointing away from the top, if that makes sense.

thanks for the help,I also went to the my LHS,with all the components it help to actually see what I needed to see.

Here is a nice GWS graphical representation

As they've said, and as you can see, it's pretty simple. When wiring motor to ESC and ESC to battery, all you have to remember is one simple rule: + to +, - to -. ESCs are generally labeled as to which end goes to the motor and which to the battery.

Most important is to get the wiring between the ESC and battery correct the first time, EVERY time. Get it wrong, and you let the magic smoke out. The motor is less important; if you get it wrong, just swap any two wires from the ESC to the motor.