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Wiring up a Mamba Monster X for use in EREVO

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godale03

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Hey Guys,

Looking to pick up a new Mamba Monster X to upgrade the stock dual motor setup in my ERevo. The question is how do I wire up the power inputs on the ESC so that I can use the two battery setup? If I look at the Traxxas page it appears Traxxas has wired up the ESC with a red wire going to the positive side of one connector and the black wire I am assuming going to the negative side of another connector. Then it appears the two connectors are then jumped together with another black wire. Is it jumped Negative to Positive or are both connectors coming off of the ESC going to both positive leads on the connectors and the two negative terminals jumped together? I just wanted to find out before purchasing so I knew how to wire it up. Thanks guys.

Tom
 
godale03 said:
Hey Guys,

Looking to pick up a new Mamba Monster X to upgrade the stock dual motor setup in my ERevo. The question is how do I wire up the power inputs on the ESC so that I can use the two battery setup? If I look at the Traxxas page it appears Traxxas has wired up the ESC with a red wire going to the positive side of one connector and the black wire I am assuming going to the negative side of another connector. Then it appears the two connectors are then jumped together with another black wire. Is it jumped Negative to Positive or are both connectors coming off of the ESC going to both positive leads on the connectors and the two negative terminals jumped together? I just wanted to find out before purchasing so I knew how to wire it up. Thanks guys.

Tom
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ESC + to connector +
ESC - to other connector's -
First connector's - goes to the second connectors +
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Thanks, guys! That is what I figured I just wanted to be sure. I have burned up a speedo on an EMaxx brushless conversion by wiring the wrong way, but that speedo had dual outputs that I wired wrong. With this having just two wires I wanted to be sure. Thanks!

Tom
 
So, its wired in series from the get go? Neat. Does that mean you have to use a dual battery setup for that ESC?
 
Alexander_0_1 said:
So, its wired in series from the get go? Neat. Does that mean you have to use a dual battery setup for that ESC?
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No, you can wire it normal for a single battery. My question was just how to wire it for a dual capacity.
 
I re-wired my E Revo normal for use with a single battery for letting kids (nephew and nieces) run it, and simply soldered up an adapter to run packs in series.
 
@Alexander_0_1 yea, mine is series out of the box. I thought of making a jumper to run a single 2s, but my concern is if one battery would take the load or just kill runtime.
 
godale03 said:
No, you can wire it normal for a single battery. My question was just how to wire it for a dual capacity.
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Oh, then I'd probably do what hpiguy said, but I'd use a parallel adaptor.

Rooky78 said:
@Alexander_0_1 yea, mine is series out of the box. I thought of making a jumper to run a single 2s, but my concern is if one battery would take the load or just kill runtime.
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I'm sure a single battery would be fine, but yea it'd cut you run times in half, or at least that's what happens in my mini-erevo.
 

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