Sidewinder SCT question
 

I got a new Sidewinder SCT the other day as a replacement. It now has a fan built into the case and has a second receiver wire coming out with only ground and power. Is this an additional plug to supplement the BEC? See pic.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...EA81434CDD.jpg

You know that new fan that's on the esc? That extra wire be the power wire for the fan:yes:

Guess I should have opened it up to find out... Not sure I like this feature.

I don't like the extra wire, but I'm not going to go through the work of splicing the fan wire to the esc wire.

My sidewinder is going on a snowmobile, I may just pull the case and fan off:neutral:

By this do you mean the main battery inputs? I mainly run 2s on this one so I think this may be the route I take.

Anything else meant designing a new pcb with battery terminals which is v expensive.

Let's face it we did the same for years to mm's.

First I've seen of the new sidewinder sct...a mini MMM

no, I meant the wires that run to the receiver from the esc.

It's a 6 volt fan, I doubt 7.4v would kill it. If you stayed at 2s you could just wire to the power leads.

I'd just plug it into the receiver though. No sense over volting fans if you don't have to. Plug it into the 3rd channel or battery slot.

I almost bet the fans can hack 12v, if so just make a balance plug adapter/use a female 2s bal plug and plug the fan into the balance plug of the lipo ?

just plug it into the rx with the attached plug:neutral:

I only mentioned splicing to have one less wire, cause I like clean builds.

I mentioned the Lipo balance plug because somtimes the ESC is right next to the battery ?

Yeah, I myself prefer the wires hanging out all over the place and I just twist wires together and use electrical tape. See my builds to confirm

:lol: I use bubble gum and paper clips:eyes:

Yep. Less wiring is always nice. Which is why I may just solder onto the battery leads.