Moveable RF (servo thingy)

Yes, Chief, the yellow wire to the right of the pic is the antenna. But my question is this: my servo has a red black and blue wire; the controller board has a blue yellow red and black wire set-up. What wires go to the servo, and which go to the batteries? Also, how many batteries do I need? Do the same batteries power the servo and the controller board? based on my servo and the zip-zap board pics (below) can anyone draw out a wiring diagram suggestion? As I said, my electronics understanding is rudimentary at best... Thanks guys!

Shinobi
 
Let's see ... I will give it a try.

Batteries:
Try a 2 AA battery holder from Radio Shack. The battery holder will have two prongs on one end. One positive and one negitive. Connect the controller board red wire to the positive prong and the contoller black wire to the negitive prong. Solder the wires to the prongs. These batteries will power BOTH the contoller board and the servo.

Servo:
Connect the servo red wire to the contoller board blue wire, and the servo black wire to the contoller board yellow wire. Don't worry about the servo blue wire right now. Do not cut it off, just let it hang loose,

Transmitter:
Use whatever type and number of batteries the zip-zap transmitter needs, to provide power to the transmitter board.

That should power and control your servo. Try the switches on your transmitter to see if they work the servo. You may have to switch the red/blue and black/yellow wires to red/yellow and black/blue, if the servo spins in the wrong direction.

Keep us posted. (y)
Gator
 
Gator, you ROCK!!!

This is what I though, but since I don't know what I'm doing, I I need to hear it from someone who does! Thank a trillion! I'll let you know when it's rigged up! ROCK ON!!

Shinobi
 
Can a servo simply be dead? The reason I ask is because I've hooked mine up in exactly the way Gator Fett described and I get NOTHING out of my servo. I've even tried connecting the batteries directly to the servo just to see if the direct power would do anything and the servo simply doesn't move. No power at all. PLEASE HELP! This is driving me crazy!
 
Here's a picture of the three components I have:

- the battery pack
- the Zip Zap board
- the Hitec Micro HS-80 servo

As you can see, the servo has the three wires. Originally the red and yellow were attached together but I pulled the two wires appart.

No matter what I do I can't get the motor to move. I've tried connecting the battery pack directly to the servo wires but nothing happened. Unfortunately I'm not even sure which is the positive, negative and pulse wire.

I'm looking for some eyeglass screwdrivers so I can open the servo up and look inside but no dice yet.

DSCF3144.jpg
 
webchief,
I wish I could help you out, but my electrical circuit knowledge (the very little that I have) has been tapped. :confused Sorry.
Gator
 
A servo motor could be simply dead. On your servo, I would guess red=(+), black=(-), and yellow=pulse. That would make sense for standard wire color code.
 
Cool. Thanks for the link! At least I know the black and red are the wires I'm interested in. That's what I figured but who knows...
 
I'm getting so frustrated with this supposedly simple project. I can't get the damned thing to work. I'm thinking of hooking it up to a 9 volt just for the Hell of it to see if the added juice does anything. I touched the wires to the 9 volt earlier and it at least moved a little. Maybe I just need more juice than 2 AAs can provide? Who knows? At this point if I fry the servo... oh well... its not working anyway.
 
Nice... hooked up the 9 volt, flipped the switch on the Zip-Zap controller and got a nice puff of smoke from the Zip-Zap board. I guess I killed that....

I hooked up the 9 volt to the servo directly... NOTHING. I guess that's dead too. I give up... apparently I'm not meant to get this working. :angry
 
If you can open the back up and post a pic, it will make it easier to see exactly what you're dealing with. Were you able to find a small enough screwdriver?
 
Woah guys long time no see. I didnt realize my tutorial continues to live on, I'm flattered :eek:. I didnt even realize it was still online for that matter. Anyhow its been quite some time since I made that, my suit is in so many pieces that I've put it aside.

webchief, the zipzap that you have, is it one of the old models or the new ones as the tutorial was written to use the original models. I'm sure the new models can do it as well I've just never attempted it.

But if anyone has any specific questions I'd be glad to answer them.
Cheers Gentlemen and Ladies.
:cheers
 
I opened it up and it was so tight in there you really couldn't see much. I'll do it again and take the pic.

Oh yeah... I have no clue about the model of Zip-Zap. I just bought it last week on sale for $10. It was one of their discontinued models.
 
Well here are pictures of radio shacks zipzaps controllers. The first one is the original model, the one I used in my tutorial, the second one is the se model which I have yet to try and the third is the monster truck model which I also havent used. You can also get the third party mini rc cars that have contollers shaped like a circle as shown in the fourth picture. These are actually in the $5-10 range so they run a little cheaper than the zips but they can tend to have more fragile wiring so if using one, just be a little more careful when working th eproject.

controller1.jpg


controller2.jpg


controller3.jpg


mini-rc-car.jpg
 
Hi all, I need some help please...

on my version of rc model .. comparing the provided picture.. are..

top - positive
2nd - left - no need
3rd - right- no need
4th - front
5th - back
6th - negative

I attached the pos & neg appropriately to the 2 AA source..
on my hitech servo - the wires are red/black/ yellow, and accordingly red=pos,black=neg, yellow= trigger.

no matter how I connect the servo to 4 and 5 it doesn't go? I get some jittering when I attach the pos & neg to pos & neg on the board then touch the yellow to either the f or B? but then still nothing when using the remote?

anyone have any thoughts? I'd post pics but they're not that great.

p.s - it's a brand new servo -
 
Not to hijack, but I have a question to those who used the zip zaps. I was going to use one, but the remote control is kind of big. Are you guys using the zip zap remote, or finding something small like Gator has?
 
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