Motor Fan

[hemiblas]

Woops, I missed that one. Yeah it wont work with a finned can. Thanks.
I found some 12V fans on ebay that were 40mm for pretty cheap and work well, but at 6V they will only turn half as fast. They have other 5 or 6V fans that will work. Just do a search there and you will get lots of choices. If you look at the pic, thats an 80mm led fan on an integy heatsink. Ok 80mm is toooo big though and when I flip the truck it breaks off. Not good.

[florianz]

there are basically two ways for the fans():

you have a 12v fan and you connect it directly to the power-cables of your esc. to stay flexible, I've always used small plugs. just solder it to the power-cable. some people would say now "too high voltage on 6s", I say no, it works just fine. it just turns a bit faster. this works great when you want to attach a fan on your esc as extensive wiring is not needed. like that I keep my cheapo-chinese-esc cool, which gave me no headache at all so far (but the "brand-Type"-esc burned...).

you have a 5v fan: plug it into your receiver. for that you can take an old sevo-calbe, you only need to take off one cable (the yello one).


lukiluki:



these fans are quite solid, their blades are small, good air circulation, they're plugged to the receiver. the ones with relatively long blades don't work for that use. the two fans shown above are old and still work (???). Always treat your fans well...
for my new novak heatsink I use a 5cm 12v fan, plugged to the powercable of the esc. works great.
you get them eg at egay, very price-worthy.
florian