Wire connections.

[Tweak]

I recently purchased a Venom 3600 battery pack on Ebay. Tha pack says it comes with a prefited "Standard" Tamiya connector to plug in. I know the batter will fit the charger I have, because it is a Venom product as well.

Does anyone know where I can get a harness/conversion type kit to modify my Futaba R142JE Reciever to accept the "Standard" plug? The only reason I am curious is, the picture shown does NOT look like it will fit into my reciever.

Anything will do. If you know of a wire extension or other product please share the knowledge. Also, if anyone has one they would like to get rid of I will be more than happy to take it off your hands.

Thanks, Again, for all the help guys- greatly appreciated.

 

[FastEddy]

I'm not quite sure what it is your after.
If you can tell me "From" what - "To" what, ill be more then glad to build one for you.

Pics of what you have will do fine.

 

[Tweak]

The battery pack has two wires and a connector. A search on Ebay for "Standard Tamiya Connector" gave me this item ~~>

I would like to either connect this battery to the reciever itself or the on/off switch, both of witch are the Futaba style flat three port slots. From the looks of the tamiya connector it won't fit into the battery slot on the reciever or the switch. I just want to hook the battery up to my reciver.

 

[Candyman]

OK, I might be a little slow, but don't Tamiya connectors usually come on battery packs that are used to power the whole car? Is this a standard sized 6-cell pack? And what are you putting it in? Why not just get a standard 6.0v receiver pack. That will come with a plug that will fit right in the receiver.

 

[FastEddy]

One of these?

 

[beason]

got a link or pic of the pack?? all mine ether come with just the recevier plug, or a reciever plug and a charging jack.. (the tamiya being the charging jack) or a jack that looks like a tamayia but is smaller and is also a charging jack.. i havent seen one with only the tamaiya exept for the stick packs.

 

[Tweak]

Well, I purchased a smaller pack from a member here on RCNT that I was ultimately not pleased with. It never lasted for more than five minutes, the wire was all jerry-rigged and it smelled funny.

Busted told me that when going with batteries, high MAh is the way to go, so I got one of the largest I could find on Ebay- 3600 MAh . From what I get of the whole battery thing, yes, this pack COULD be used to power a whole car. i figured if a model engine uses 7 volts to turn the servos would only draw a fraction of that power and the battery would last longer (charges I mean) I just keep having problems with the electric portions of my models. they either turn slowly or don't have enough push to them.

SO.... i bought a couple high tourqe servo's and stuck em in my Mammoth. Four little AA batteries just didnt seem to do it. Then I knew the Servo's were fine, I just werent' gettin 'Nuff juice

SO.... I bought a big bad battery pack to push em, hoping this would solve my problem.

Really, I have said it before and now again. I am a gimp when it comes to electronics.

 

[beason]

what kind of pack?? pic?? link??

 

[FastEddy]

OK so lets see what we have here.
You have a nitro and need a GOOD back to drive the servos.
You used a 4 cell alkaline setup and it wasn't good. You then got a 5 cell pack that didn't work well, and now you want to attach a 6 cell pack?

I'm not yet going to go into whether this is right or wrong, just trying to get it striate..

 

[Tweak]

That is the just of it. Four AA's just don't cut it and the five cells was...crap.

I just want to get a decent run time out of two little lonely servo's with a very easy to use charge/discharge system.

 

[Plaidfish]

Tweak do you realize the pack you won is supposed to be used to power an electric RC....it's a 7.2v pack and might damage your servos.....and it is huge cmpared to your Rx packs, where will you mount it????

 

[FastEddy]

I believe you just got a bad 5 cell pack or your charger was false peaking.
A 6 cell pack is not what you want to power your nitro. Its to big and the voltage is to high for the RX.

Let me see if I can find a few little parts I need and I will hand build you a pack that is hands down, going to work. If it doesn't, you will know your charger is trash.

 

[beason]

i need a good 6 cell if yours wont work out.. lmk how much you payed for it

 

[Tweak]

I think I might do that. I will ship you mine if Ed decides he can help me. It is a damn good pack, brand new in the box rated for 3600 MAh. all green and shinny, straight from Venom.

 

[FastEddy]

What configuration do you need?
Hump or flat?

Hump being 3 along the bottom and 2 on top like a triangle
Flat is all lined up side to side?

 

[Tweak]

Either way would be fine... The hump perfered I suppose. Are the cells going to be the small ones like the last pack?

 

[Monkey Wrench]

Tweak, go with the pack Eddy builds, like a 5-cell, 1200 Mah hump pack. That 6-cell monster you have may end up deep frying those shiny new servos, brother! I'm no electric guru as well, but I've learned the hard way about putting one of those flat packs into my nitro's! Zip, zap, all she wrote! Plus, it'll be easier to mount.

 

[wannarunem]

Tweak....your gonna use this for the mammoth?

 

[Tweak]

Yup. The servos have been a little boggy since day one, I rebuilt one and replaced the Hitek with a Futaba 3305. It has been such a pain in the arse trying to find something that will power these things. I have been through one battery pack allready (Granted, I probably messed the pack up due to my own inexperiance {Sp?}) But I just want to get a simple, easy to charge battery pack that even a nerf like me can understand. I have TWO chargers coming, so when I get whatever pack I choose I should be ready to go. Due to a little mishap the other day I finnaly realized exactly how important it is to get a failsafe, so I will also be attaching that to the Mammoth.


Why do you ask?

 

[Monkey Wrench]

What kind of chargers you getting? Just surious.