I was expecting bullet connectors on the motors, but they are just wires, same witht he Emax ESCS, guess you need to solder connections on the ends of these?
How are people connecting their motors to the ESCS?
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I was expecting bullet connectors on the motors, but they are just wires, same witht he Emax ESCS, guess you need to solder connections on the ends of these?
How are people connecting their motors to the ESCS?
Solder and heat shrink or Bullet connectors.
Direct solder for me. I hate soldering bullet connectors almost as much as I hate soldering battery connectors. Much easier to solder 3 wires together and heatshrink them.
Hmm,
will have a think, problem is if you have the wires the wrong way around you will have to go through the fuss of desoldering, and also with bullet connectors you can easily unplug/plug back in
I would need bullet connectors for the esc bare wires, and the motor bare wires if I went down this route.
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What I normally do is solder 2 motors with the wires uncrossed, and 2 motors with a pair of the wires switched over. That way I know I have 2 of each rotation and then I just need to plug one in, find out which way it goes and the rest is easy
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:O - This is niceeee. How big do you think it is compared to the QAV250?
Yeh I could do that I suppose, problem is I'm going to need flight controller, battery, etc all done before i can test the motor rotations, unless I can test with my 4s battery for my dji f450? Or is that not a good idea.
I don't have a battery yet, going to build the frame and was hoping to get some soldering done this weekend to kick off the 250 build, my naze32 should arrive tomorrow or Friday
Still need to build landing skids for my f450 too
Keeps me busy
although distracting me from revising damn it.
I don't have a battery yet, going to build the frame and was hoping to get some soldering done this weekend to kick off the 250 build, my naze32 should arrive tomorrow or Friday
Still need to build landing skids for my f450 too
Keeps me busy
although distracting me from revising damn it.Yeh I could do that I suppose, problem is I'm going to need flight controller, battery, etc all done before i can test the motor rotations, unless I can test with my 4s battery for my dji f450? Or is that not a good idea.
I don't have a battery yet, going to build the frame and was hoping to get some soldering done this weekend to kick off the 250 build, my naze32 should arrive tomorrow or Friday
Still need to build landing skids for my f450 too
Keeps me busy
you can still wire up 2 of each? btw, my dys1806 spin CCW wired up straight to my esc's (KISS 18A) so do my SS 2204 to the emax esc's AND my cobras to my ZTW ESC's. Probably not default for all combo's but there seems to be a pattern developing
Pants. I just cooked one of my Naze boards. Stupidly connected the voltage sensing backwards. It went pop and the magic smoke escaped from one of the chips. It was the full one with the baro and magnetometer too. No, I couldn't have cooked the cheapo one, it had to be the full one.
Oh well, another on order.
Oh well, another on order.
Damn, so be careful when connecting stuff backwards :/
"Try" and RMA it, just say it didnt work, or is it all covered in black residue ?
"Try" and RMA it, just say it didnt work, or is it all covered in black residue ?
Nah, not going to do that to Phil. I cooked it, it's my loss.
Just strip a litte more of the insulation off each wire and twist them until it's all set up properly. You're only getting the correct motor direction, not flying with them so they don't have to be sturdy.
Slide heatshrink over the wires first and leave it out the way. Twist the exposed 5-10mm of wire to the corresponding esc wire for each motor. Test it, adjust as necessary, then solder and slide the heatshrink over. It's really no hassle and is sturdier/lighter than bullet connectors.