Does this look right? RX8 system

[team3six]

OK, I got my setup and soldered it all up. before I make this happen. I have to make sure this is wired right. I am putting (2) SMC 5000 Lipo's on each side. So I made this harness for the batteries to run into the RX8 and I want to be absolutly positive before I go firing it up.

[lincpimp]

Do you have a voltmeter? If so unplug the adapter from the esc and plug the lipos into it. Check the voltage at the female plug on the adapter and make sure you get 14.8v or so, and make sure the polarity is correct as well. Visually it looks correct, as long as the deans are correctly installed on the lipos, and you have the pos and neg wire hooked up correctly on the esc.

[team3six]

Im good on the batteries. I ran them when i had the Novak system in this. But the tekin system doesnt give you the double battery capability. The connector for the batteries is what i have always been told is how to run the batteries off of one ESC. So I want to be sure it looks wired up right. I would hate to have to send it back to tekin because I did something wrong.

[magman]

That looks good to me..I just wired my Tekin RX8 set up tonight

[Patrick]

The series adapter looks right.
If you are only going to use it with two packs in series then you could get rid on the middle deans plug and a few inches of wire if you wanted. Just have the - esc wire going straight to the same spot on the left hand side plug, and the + esc wire going straight to the same spot on the right hand side plug. Probably move the adapter back to the next hole in the chassis since you'll have less wire.
You don't have to do that, it will work how it is, but it looks like your going for a neat layout so getting rid of a plug and some wire might make it neater (plus less overall resistance helps a bit). If your going to use single packs, or parallel packs as well then it's not worth doing.

[team3six]

They are these packs.
http://cgi.ebay.com/SMC-5000LD-7-4V-...lenotsupported

[rawfuls]

Yeah, if I were you, and I was only going to run packs in series, I'd eliminate that center deans, and just extend the deans (from the series connector) onto the ESC.

This is completely your choice though..

[team3six]

yeah, I think Ill do that to have a lower resistance. I just did that incse I decided to run a single pack at one point, but its not like I couldnt just rewire anyways. thanks

[rawfuls]

That's what I would do as well.
I wouldn't think that I would use one pack, as it would unbalance some..... stuff

[lutach]

Go with 12-10GA wire on the battery side.

[lincpimp]

Originally Posted by lutach

Go with 12-10GA wire on the battery side.

Yeah, the wire does look a bit skinny now that you mention it...

[nitrostarter]

^^^ Ditto.

Wiring scheme looks right, but that guage looks pretty small. I also would opt to make the series connection on the esc wires as well. No need for extra connectors.

[team3six]

ok, well the wire to the motors are 14 awg and the battery wires are 12 aug. This is the re wire. I guess ill have to get the 16 aug for the batteries as well if you believe it will make a differance. is this what you want it to look like only with larger wires.

[lincpimp]

Gauge works by the smaller the number the thicker the wires is. 12-10 gauge is best for what you are doing, motor and battery wires should be that big.

[jhautz]

If you use the 12 gauge wire that came with the RX8 you should be fine.

Just so you know, the higher the number in the wire gauge the skinnier it is. You want to use 12 gauge wire or if you are looking for some over kill 10 gauge wire is even better.


Looks to me like you have the 12 ga wire on the motor and 16 gauge on the battery wires in that picture. Hard to read the wire lable, but thats what it looks like.

EDIT:Linc beat me to it.