scooterinvegas

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Just picked up a used US Lite, and it has a on board voltmeter. The previous owner said to use a Y connector to the battery. I'm thinking plugging in to the receiver. Whats the best way to do this?? (You can see the voltmeter on top just behind the firewall)

scooterinvegas

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Kostas1

Either way will work! [8D]

dasintex

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Open Channel on the RX
'Y' Extension on any Channel

Lnewqban

I believe the previous owner meant to use a Y connector between the switch and the receiver, since plugged in to the battery would keep the on board voltmeter powered all the time (and what would be worst: measuring battery voltage without load).

I plug all my on board voltmeters in to the receivers.
You want to know how much voltage your receiver is fed with while you move all the servos at once before each flight (when the battery has to work harder to satisfy all the elements in the circuit).

If you have a faulty connection in the receiver, and you voltmeter is connected upstream of that point, it will never "see it" and warn you.

Read what happened to me:

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=10058382

Rodney

If at all possible, plug it into an unused channel on the receiver as the receiver bus voltage is what you want to monitor, not the battery voltage. By going to the bus voltage, you can pick up any problems in the switch and battery wiring as well as having it reflect any power drops due to excessive servo current draw.

Charlie P.

What was said: any unused receiver channel or "Y" it in with a servo.  I use the throttle just for personal consistancy.  If you're truly a light sleeper you may not want to use one of the aileron servos in a dual system because the internal resistance and possible inductance from the Voltmeter may cause a hardly perceptable difference in response between ailerons.