What the heck, nobody mentioned, including Motion, that there was no BEC on the F7F ESC. No big deal, just haven't used one in like forever. Had to dig around for a switch and a receiver battery. Found a relatively new Life 6.6 and will use that. Egad.
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Originally posted by bbolz View PostWhat the heck, nobody mentioned, including Motion, that there was no BEC on the F7F ESC. No big deal, just haven't used one in like forever. Had to dig around for a switch and a receiver battery. Found a relatively new Life 6.6 and will use that. Egad.
The Tiger does comes with 2 ESC's that have onboard 5V/5A BEC's
60 Amp Brushless ESC with XT-60 Connector from Freewing - 040D002001 This ESC is specifically for the following FlightLine aircraft: P-38L Lightning
If you don't have these then apparently someone at the factory put the wrong ones in the box.
These particular ECS's were also a new proprietary design that allowed the two BEC's to talk to together.
In earlier years this was a no-no. There was discussion about this in the early parts of this thread initiated by me.
Alpha went on record with this claim. ;)Warbird Charlie
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Originally posted by bbolz View PostOk OV, now I'm confused. MRC says that the receiver does not need a separate BEC lead. Is this right?
I'm speculating from your comment that they said (in reference to the airframe power requirements) it doesn't require a separate BEC/UBEC
Just Y the two ESC leads (the three wire yellow/red/brown) and then connect to your Rx.
Most modelers make the BEC supplied Vcc connection to the bind port on DSMX Rx's like Spectrum/Lemon/Admiral.
I know nothing about Futaba hookupsWarbird Charlie
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Yes sir. Usually on a twin, you have to pull the red wire from the port or starboard throttle lead from the ESC so that the ESC's built in BEC's don't fight against one another. On the F-7-F and the P-38, they were designed to work as a "team" so to speak, so a Y on the throttle lead and into the throttle channel will do the trick...
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I hope that helps a little. Think of the little 3 or 4 channel planes. You just plug in the lead from the ESC to throttle and that provides the voltage to run the servos and accessories. Do not put a 6.6v dc LIFE pack in with a switch. The servos for Flightline & Freewing are rated at 5.0v dc, so a LIFE pack will damage them. Maybe not at first, but later when you are flying!!! LOL
You can get away with a 6.0v dc NimH pack. I don't like the 4.8v dc packs, since that is at the low end of the voltage threshold. I use the CC 20 amp BEC in all my birds over 1200mm. I use the BEC plugs to isolate the factory BEC from the throttle circuits, and then plug in the leads from the CC BEC into two channels on my receivers....
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Everything is good. Just shouldn't overthink these things. Now for the MCI sound card install, moving it from the A-10 to the F7F. Already have the sound bites for the twin wasps. Almost ready for the maiden. One thing I did notice though is that one of the flap linkages was too short. Only one. Had to make up a new one just a bit longer. No matter what I did I couldn't get it to fit.
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