freebird1

I have been it this hobby for quite some time and have always wanted to try running 2 Bat for more MhA on a y harness. I am building a 30% edge. I am useing a battery backer, but you can never have to much power. I was thinking I could run two bat on a y harness and a backer would give me lots of power. My bat. are 6v at 2500 Milamp. If I can run 2 bat on a Y harness and a backer would have a total of 7,500 Milamps.

Can this work and has anyone tried it?

Thanks

RCKen

My Feedback: (9)

Yes, that will work with no problems. But an even better solution is two batteries going through 2 separate switches going into the receiver. You can either go into a Y-harness into one channel on the battery, or you can go into two separate channels on the receiver. Doing this will give you redundancy in the event of a switch failure, or any other component of your battery power system. Many modelers regularly do this. I do it on all of my larger planes.

Ken

freebird1

ok, I think I follow you, but which channel whould you put the extra bat. and switch in . Which one will get the drain or would they drain equal.

RCKen

My Feedback: (9)

You can put them in any open channel on the receiver. You can do this because all of the channel slots in a receiver is on a power bus, so putting power in one slot will give power to the receiver. You can even put the battery into a slot that already has a servo connected in it by using a Y-harness, plug the Y-harness into the receiver with the servo plugged into one side of the Y-harness and the battery plugged into the other side of the Y-harness. If you plug two batteries into the receiver they will drain pretty much evenly. There won't be enough difference to even worry about.

Hope this helps

Ken

masonman

Hey Ken. If you use two batts an two switches runing into two diffrent plugs in the rx, Would the rx be able to deal with the 12 volts, or would you need to run regulators?

ChuckW

The batteries would effectively be in parallell so voltage wouldn't increase, just the amount of available current would go up. The next time I run into a plane that needs a lot of extra weight to balance (after trying moving stuff, etc.), I am going to try doing this. After all, if you have to add weight, it might as well be something useful.

Geistware

My Feedback: (16)

If I use two batteries and need to put one on a "Y", I normally do it with rudder.
It allows the battery to have fewer connections to this power consuming control.

freebird1

Ok let me see if I have it all straight. I can use an extra bat by using a switch and by putting it in an extra channel, or with a servo and bat on a Y harness on the same channel, or using 2 bat on Y harness. This is good stuff, never to old to learn.

Thanks

Newc

The above is not only correct, but in the proper order of preferred methods of doing the set up. The least favorable way to set it up is with the 2 batteries on a 'Y' harness, as this prevents the use of individual/separate switches and charging jacks. Here's a link that gives some very good information, especially the section entitled "Parallel Operation = Reliability and Flight Time" as shown on the left side of the site. You will see that parallel charging is not recommended.

Charlie P.

Your link didn't show up, but I'm sure you meant Red Scholefield's excellent site.

http://www.rcbatteryclinic.com/

Adding battery weight for a redundant system beats adding dead lead to balance a model, too.

RCKen

My Feedback: (9)

ChuckW is absolutely correct. The batteries are in parallel, so it's still only 6 volts available to the receiver but it's an increase the available amperage.

Ken

ChuckW

Kirchoff's principal of parallell and series circuits I believe.

Newc

Exactly right that I was trying to link to "Red Scholefield's excellent site".

freebird1

Thanks! I have learned something. Here is the digram that really makes it easy to understand how it works. I got the photo from Red Scholefield's web site. I thought this may help others!