External Lipo Cutoff

[godale03]

Hey Guys,

My older GTB ESC does not have an internal lipo cutoff, so I hade to order the smart stop. I recieved the smart stop... but the question now is, how am I supposed to hook this thing up? It is supposed to be removable right? So I can move it from vehicle to vehicle like I do with my transponder correct? Thanks

Tom

 

[robmob]

In order to make it easily removable you are going to have to fashion some leads coming off the battery wires and attach a female connector to them. Put the male connector on the battery wires of the Smart Stop. The best way for the leads is to have them come off the Deans that are on your ESC's battery wires.

I believe the battery wires are the only ones that are supposed to be soldered in place so doing the above should make the unit easily removable.

 

[godale03]

In order to make it easily removable you are going to have to fashion some leads coming off the battery wires and attach a female connector to them. Put the male connector on the battery wires of the Smart Stop. The best way for the leads is to have them come off the Deans that are on your ESC's battery wires.

I believe the battery wires are the only ones that are supposed to be soldered in place so doing the above should make the unit easily removable.

So basically... I cut the female lead off the ESC... then take two lengths of wire and solder another female end to them, then solder a male lead off the two wires to the smart stop? So in the end, the power leads from the ESC will look sort of like a lipo pack with a balance lead coming off?

 

[robmob]

Sounds like you got it.

 

[godale03]

Well... after thinking about it and looking at my other ESC's this is the only one that is not lipo ready. So I went with a more permanent setup. Here are a few pictures. Hopefully I have it all wired up right!

 

[godale03]

Alright....got it configured. Now will this make sure i dont run the pack below critical? Or do i have to make sure to check the led while running?.....

 

[trax de max]

unless the cut off has been set higher than the previous versions it is set kinda low 2s is 6.25V and that is total pack voltage. If one cell hits 3.0V and the other 3.27V it will still run normaly. You can still use this and still fit a $3 alarm which checks individual cells and be adjustable for measuring the volts.