I received a 284131 esc today for my k989. It comes with 3 wire small servo input and not compatible with the stock 3 wire k989 servo wire. And the throttle is reversed too. What can i do 😥
If it has 3 wire then the wiring is the same. You can solder the wires directly to the board. Or even easier, cut the wires and plug the stub directly to the pins. Throttle reverse... if the brake works correctly but the motor direction is reverse then you can swap the polarity on the motor wires. If the brake applies on going form reverse to forward then... that's unfortunate. The best you can do is open the transmitter up and swap the wires on the throttle pod to reverse it.
@@BeaversHobby i tried swapping the motor wires. The brake worked properly on the transmitter but the speed is high if i reverse. If i press throttle on front to move the car front, the speed is low, but at the back speed is high than front speed. Is there anytg i can do
Title says "converting 5 wire to 3 wire", but the video shows converting 3 wire to 5 wire. And the video doesn't really show anything. The whole video could be replaced with a single statement "Swap the controller boards".
It doesn't take a genius level of intelligence to realize that converting either one has the same exact result. I guess you and the eight idiots who hit "like" to your comment really thought you really got him there. Yikes.
I have been searching for this topic for a year ago, but didn't find any video on this. This simple video however, explained it to the fullest, thx a lot bro. This was very pleasant, and helpful.
i wonder if the opposite can also be done like converting a 3 wire servo to a 5 wire servo so it fits on a salvaged micro receiver that only accepts 5wire servos
Yes, it should work the same way. If the direction is wrong or the servo is lock up then you need to swap the motor polarity or the potentiometer wiring or possibly both. Don't attach the whole mechanism yet. Test if it works first before putting everything back together.
Hi im looking for some help here please, i have a rc car that has 5 wire coming out of the esc and i want to wire them to a 3 wire servo can someone please tell me how i can do that thanks
Hello. 5 wires coming out of the ESC is really strange. What kind of car is it and what are the wires connected to? A photo would help to identify it easier.
@@BeaversHobby its a cheap rc truck from Amazon i think, im fixing it for a friend. So basically the esc has wires to plug the battery, wires for the motor and five wires for the steering. These five wires come out of the ESC about 4 inches and are all together with a male connector, ready to be mated to the connector of the servo. But the servo im using is a 3 wire servo. How can I send you a picture
I convert wl toy's servo board i connect the same wire in motor servo the red to red , blue to black Please help me where i should connect the white , orange and green wire of mini z potentiometer To wl toy's red ,yellow ,brown wire
There's no fixed formula for it. You will have to experiment with all the potentiometer wiring combinations and see which one works. Try it without the gears first (make sure it can spin round and round) so you don't accidentally break it.
Thanks for the video!!! But l (like many others...) need to do the contrary! I have a xk A100 RC plane, that has a receiver board with a 5 pins servo socket! I am afraid I have a lot of three cables servos but none with 5 cables... Would you be so kind to explain how I could make five cables out of the three of the servo? Thanks a lot and greetings from Greece!!
It's the reverse of this process. You can take a 3 wire servo and then take the board out then you'll have 5 wires, 2 from the motor and 3 from the potentiometer. Next it you'll have to find out how are these connected on the receiver board.
I took it out of my TRQ1 or something so it's not widely available. Mostly it's going to be a standard 3-wire. Have you tried Aliexpress? I'll post a link if I find one.
Try to identify which is the power (VCC, GND) and which are 3 potentiometer. Usually power wires are black and red, black being ground. You can try swapping within power and within potentiometer to get a combination that works.
If you swap the polarity of the motor, you have to swap the potentiometer wires too. I don't remember which of the 2 to swap but try untilk you find one combination that works. Actually if it spins in opposite direction but it works, you'd better use the reverse or REV function on the transmitter.
Thanks for another great vid . I connected my mini z awd servo to a 5 wire to 3 wire board so I could use radiolink reciever . It worked but the servo would not work to maximum end point no matter what adjustments I made. I ended up installing a regular servo but that's another story! 😁
@@BeaversHobby haha yes. I've had some feedback and it seems its a kt18 issue. Some users have changed to ex6 and it's solved all issues. Nb4 users had intial issue but ics fixed it.
What receiver are you using and what car is it? If it's standard RC receiver there should be 3 pins, signal + and -. Otherwise it's a non standard one and now compatible with 3 wires servo. By the way if there's only 2 pins or 2 wires I'm afraid it's not proportional steering.
Beaver's Hobby on the Front of the Transmitter it said: digital proportional Radio Control System. I‘m actually Not using a Car, i‘m going for an airplane 🙂 with yeah i dont actually Know what this transmitter and Receiver is 😅 it was used for a flightmodel but i dont Know More unlucky. Its from Carson. On receiver there is FS-MR300E RF V1 3 written. But well nothing found online
@@DerAndre2511 I'm quite stumped as well. There's no info other than Carson make some planes. If you can identify which one is signal on the connector then you can separate the wires form servo and connect them to each port on the receiver. What's the original servo looks like anyway?
thanks for the video ... can i convert 3 wire servo to 5 wire pls make a video on that ..... and also i have one doubt can i convert my xinlehong 9125 servo into mg995 servo pls reply me
3 wire to 5 wire is reverse of this video. You just take the controller board off 3 wire and it'll become 5 wire. You can convert pretty much any servo. You'll only need the controller board at the correct size. If the servo is big then you need to use servo board from another big servo.
@@BeaversHobby in my 5 wire servo motor there is no control board on it but in 3 wire there is a control board ... actually my problem is this is my 2nd servo motor with in 3 months for my xinlehong 9125 rc truck ... my servo is got damaged or not lasting ... so im planing to upgrade into a 3 wire servo and trying to convert into a 5wire one .... or can i replace the potentiometer in the current 5 wire servo ?will that work ? why my servo got damaged continuously can you pls tell me the exact reason for that
@@sachin4524 3 wire servo has control board because it gets signal from the receiver directly. 5 wire servo doesn't have board because it's controlled by the mainboard of the car so it doesn't need one. When you take the board out of 3 wire servo, it's 5 wire servo with 2 wires from motor and 3 wires from potentiometer. Knowing this you can take any 3 wire, take the board out, solder the 5 wires inside to a new plug and plug it into the original board of your car. No need to swap the potentiometer or anything. 3 wire is just 5 wire with board. I don't know the exact reason why your servo keeps breaking because I don't know the car and how you drive. I found some pictures of the car and I can only speculate that your servo doesn't have enough power and durability to pull those big wheels and tyres. This kind of car needs servo with high torque and metal gear. I think the best way is to upgrade it to proper RC electronics and install receiver, ESC and servo so you can replace the broken part directly without modding it.
@@BeaversHobby but last time I upgraded into a new full metal gear servo that's also same complaint again... I don't know what is the real complaint i dissembled and checked the motor is still working... I don't know where is the problem from... But if I upgreade my receiver there is no holder or place for fitting the new servo Bcoz 3 wire servo is little bit more sizer than 5 wire.... So the only possible way is to repair the old servo 😑
It depends on the board and the servo you put it into, should be the same servo size. Also make sure you don't touch other components on the board otherwise it might be damaged.
definite rookie here but you might enjoy a watch, slapped a WPL C-24 toyota pickup body onto a WPL B-1 frame, axles atop the springs not under, a long 0.5 modulus 8t pinion (on 20k RPM 180 motor) direct to output gear of the gearbox. the thing drifts pretty good considering. front hubs are only lined with aluminum can and light grease to reduce the slop, yesterday morning did minor filing to the front hub stops to get a tiny bit more steering angle from it. in the video (oh my low quality camera lol!) it's being run on asphalt (ouch!) and I'm not so good drift driving... but you can see it is fairly well behaved inexpensive little project. maybe WPL will see it and become interested to produce a low budget drift model? it's fun anyway.
Be careful with the type of servo board you are using though. I tried to install a not kyosho made 716 motor in pn2.5w chassis and used a d1802 servo board. I end up chewing through 3 sets of servo gear before realize i need to add 20ohm resistors into the servo motor circuit to make it functiom properly.... And yesterday i fired the board... Need to buy a new servo ..Thankfully , it costs less than 5 bucks.
@@BeaversHobby yes it power up but i can't control the rotation.. is crazyy... i have switched all the wires but same result... maybe the control board isn't compatible..
Nicely done sir, useful. Quick heads-up, have you seen (rhetorical) they've started selling Radiolink 4ch receivers again?!... except they're now called R4FGM. I laughed (literally), the "M" stands for "Mini" ...as in, they're for this scale... i.e. they've taken them out of their little transluscent box and replaced it with shrink-wrap to save size & weight. Hmph, AND they cost $5 more than a 6ch. Think they've been watching your channel bud! No, no, no, don't get me wrong Mr. Radiolink, I am grateful, lol. #PleaseDontBlackListMeRadiolink
Yes, I've seen it. It's actually a tad smaller than standard board but not by much to make a huge difference. Anyway, I'm not going to upgrade my RC3S to RC4GS because I asked them if I can use my R4F receivers (I have 5, pretty much in all my cars) and they said no. For some strange reason their supposedly "new" receivers that I have are not new enough to use with current batch of RC4GS.
@@BeaversHobby Yup, I didn't test my R4F before I spent ages joining it to an ESC, direct wiring everything and then resoldering and scratching my head why it didn't work. Don't get me wrong, I love my RC4GS, but I really resent constantly buying the 6 channel receivers for a 4ch transmitter. Ya, aaaanyway, this looks like a development for me... buuut, I was collecting the receiver shells, I was going to light them, make them into a mini desk sculpture, haha. Best laid plans of mice and men.
I received a 284131 esc today for my k989. It comes with 3 wire small servo input and not compatible with the stock 3 wire k989 servo wire. And the throttle is reversed too. What can i do 😥
If it has 3 wire then the wiring is the same. You can solder the wires directly to the board. Or even easier, cut the wires and plug the stub directly to the pins.
Throttle reverse... if the brake works correctly but the motor direction is reverse then you can swap the polarity on the motor wires. If the brake applies on going form reverse to forward then... that's unfortunate. The best you can do is open the transmitter up and swap the wires on the throttle pod to reverse it.
@@BeaversHobby i tried swapping the motor wires. The brake worked properly on the transmitter but the speed is high if i reverse. If i press throttle on front to move the car front, the speed is low, but at the back speed is high than front speed. Is there anytg i can do
@@loga_912 Try and calibrate the ESC if you can. Which ESC is this?
@@BeaversHobby The 284131's ESC. I decided to change the esc and the transmitter so i changed it. I didnt know there will be problems
@@loga_912 I didn't expect it to work like that either. This is strange. Maybe you can try and move the dual rate knob around and see what happens.
Title says "converting 5 wire to 3 wire", but the video shows converting 3 wire to 5 wire. And the video doesn't really show anything. The whole video could be replaced with a single statement "Swap the controller boards".
It doesn't take a genius level of intelligence to realize that converting either one has the same exact result. I guess you and the eight idiots who hit "like" to your comment really thought you really got him there. Yikes.
I have been searching for this topic for a year ago, but didn't find any video on this. This simple video however, explained it to the fullest, thx a lot bro. This was very pleasant, and helpful.
Glad to be of help.
I have stock esc with 5 wire servo
Wanna change it to 3 wire esc for external receiver and still use the stock 5 wire servo
Is this posible ?
In this case I recommend you to make a converter as a plug so you can swap between 2 systems.
i wonder if the opposite can also be done like converting a 3 wire servo to a 5 wire servo so it fits on a salvaged micro receiver that only accepts 5wire servos
Theoretically yes. You'll have to experiment with the potentiometer wiring order.
@@BeaversHobby if it gets too tricky i think ill just go buy a 5wire servo hahaha
Hi Beaver, work it in a miniz mr02? Can i use with the board of the micro servo sg90? Thanks
Yes, it should work the same way. If the direction is wrong or the servo is lock up then you need to swap the motor polarity or the potentiometer wiring or possibly both. Don't attach the whole mechanism yet. Test if it works first before putting everything back together.
Can I use a standard 3 pin gyro for the 5 pin steering servo system? What do I need to modify? Thank you 😊
No, you can't. The board for 5 wire servo won't connect to 3 pin system.
And servo 3.7G, can you convert from 5 strings to 3 strings?
Yes, if you can find a smaller board it might work but otherwise a board from 5g should work too.
Hi im looking for some help here please, i have a rc car that has 5 wire coming out of the esc and i want to wire them to a 3 wire servo can someone please tell me how i can do that thanks
Hello. 5 wires coming out of the ESC is really strange. What kind of car is it and what are the wires connected to? A photo would help to identify it easier.
@@BeaversHobby its a cheap rc truck from Amazon i think, im fixing it for a friend. So basically the esc has wires to plug the battery, wires for the motor and five wires for the steering. These five wires come out of the ESC about 4 inches and are all together with a male connector, ready to be mated to the connector of the servo. But the servo im using is a 3 wire servo. How can I send you a picture
I convert wl toy's servo board i connect the same wire in motor servo the red to red , blue to black
Please help me where i should connect the white , orange and green wire of mini z potentiometer
To wl toy's red ,yellow ,brown wire
There's no fixed formula for it. You will have to experiment with all the potentiometer wiring combinations and see which one works. Try it without the gears first (make sure it can spin round and round) so you don't accidentally break it.
Thanks for the video!!! But l (like many others...) need to do the contrary! I have a xk A100 RC plane, that has a receiver board with a 5 pins servo socket! I am afraid I have a lot of three cables servos but none with 5 cables... Would you be so kind to explain how I could make five cables out of the three of the servo? Thanks a lot and greetings from Greece!!
It's the reverse of this process. You can take a 3 wire servo and then take the board out then you'll have 5 wires, 2 from the motor and 3 from the potentiometer. Next it you'll have to find out how are these connected on the receiver board.
Great how can you run a 3 wire servo on a 2in1 esc receiver that has a 5 wire plug on the board thanks
Do it in reverse. Take the board out and wire both pot and motor directly to 5 wires on the 2-in-1.
@@BeaversHobby I wish someone would make a detailed video on that.
Hey Beaver l need a little help finding servos for my Atomic 1/28 car please help with a Link or suggestions thx
Here it is. www.miracle-mart.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=67_74_1039&products_id=14225
Can you please send a link to where you bought the 5g 5 wire servos? Or what to search for? Asking because I need one and can't find any.
I took it out of my TRQ1 or something so it's not widely available. Mostly it's going to be a standard 3-wire. Have you tried Aliexpress? I'll post a link if I find one.
Is there a way to just solder specific wires together? I have extra servo extensions, but I don't have a spare servo to take apart.
Try to identify which is the power (VCC, GND) and which are 3 potentiometer. Usually power wires are black and red, black being ground.
You can try swapping within power and within potentiometer to get a combination that works.
@@BeaversHobby Thanks! I tried it, and it sort-or worked. However, I just opted to buy a new servo. The video was stil useful, though. Thanks!
@@sitayhuber My pleasure. Glad you got it sorted anyway.
hello I did the same, but I stay the turn the other way ... I swap the motor wires and get stuck spinning and it gets hot ... what can it be?
If you swap the polarity of the motor, you have to swap the potentiometer wires too. I don't remember which of the 2 to swap but try untilk you find one combination that works.
Actually if it spins in opposite direction but it works, you'd better use the reverse or REV function on the transmitter.
Honestly i was waiting for this video for a long time !
What if from 3 wire to 5 wire? Just reverse the procedure? Need a board to make it 5 wire?
Yes, just reverse the procedure and remove the board.
So do i need to do the opposite to do 3 wire to 5 wire?
Yes, exactly!
Thanks for another great vid . I connected my mini z awd servo to a 5 wire to 3 wire board so I could use radiolink reciever . It worked but the servo would not work to maximum end point no matter what adjustments I made. I ended up installing a regular servo but that's another story! 😁
Thanks for sharing your experience. Fingers crossed you won't have to do it again with your MA030.
@@BeaversHobby haha yes. I've had some feedback and it seems its a kt18 issue. Some users have changed to ex6 and it's solved all issues. Nb4 users had intial issue but ics fixed it.
This helped me out a lot, many thanks 👍
Hey,
nice quick and easy Video. Like it. But unlucky i have a 3 pin Servo but only 2 pins on my Receiver? How can i solve this?
What receiver are you using and what car is it? If it's standard RC receiver there should be 3 pins, signal + and -.
Otherwise it's a non standard one and now compatible with 3 wires servo.
By the way if there's only 2 pins or 2 wires I'm afraid it's not proportional steering.
Beaver's Hobby on the Front of the Transmitter it said: digital proportional Radio Control System. I‘m actually Not using a Car, i‘m going for an airplane 🙂 with yeah i dont actually Know what this transmitter and Receiver is 😅 it was used for a flightmodel but i dont Know More unlucky. Its from Carson. On receiver there is FS-MR300E RF V1 3
written. But well nothing found online
Maybe i found something out, there are 4x 2pin and one row with 4 seperate but Directly side by side Pins but with Label +(2)- and -(1)+
Oh Transmitter is carson 2,4GHZ more is Not written on ist except the Digital proportional Radio Control System
@@DerAndre2511 I'm quite stumped as well. There's no info other than Carson make some planes. If you can identify which one is signal on the connector then you can separate the wires form servo and connect them to each port on the receiver. What's the original servo looks like anyway?
thanks for the video ... can i convert 3 wire servo to 5 wire pls make a video on that ..... and also i have one doubt can i convert my xinlehong 9125 servo into mg995 servo pls reply me
3 wire to 5 wire is reverse of this video. You just take the controller board off 3 wire and it'll become 5 wire.
You can convert pretty much any servo. You'll only need the controller board at the correct size. If the servo is big then you need to use servo board from another big servo.
@@BeaversHobby in my 5 wire servo motor there is no control board on it but in 3 wire there is a control board ... actually my problem is this is my 2nd servo motor with in 3 months for my xinlehong 9125 rc truck ... my servo is got damaged or not lasting ... so im planing to upgrade into a 3 wire servo and trying to convert into a 5wire one .... or can i replace the potentiometer in the current 5 wire servo ?will that work ? why my servo got damaged continuously can you pls tell me the exact reason for that
@@sachin4524 3 wire servo has control board because it gets signal from the receiver directly.
5 wire servo doesn't have board because it's controlled by the mainboard of the car so it doesn't need one. When you take the board out of 3 wire servo, it's 5 wire servo with 2 wires from motor and 3 wires from potentiometer. Knowing this you can take any 3 wire, take the board out, solder the 5 wires inside to a new plug and plug it into the original board of your car. No need to swap the potentiometer or anything. 3 wire is just 5 wire with board.
I don't know the exact reason why your servo keeps breaking because I don't know the car and how you drive. I found some pictures of the car and I can only speculate that your servo doesn't have enough power and durability to pull those big wheels and tyres. This kind of car needs servo with high torque and metal gear.
I think the best way is to upgrade it to proper RC electronics and install receiver, ESC and servo so you can replace the broken part directly without modding it.
@@BeaversHobby but last time I upgraded into a new full metal gear servo that's also same complaint again... I don't know what is the real complaint i dissembled and checked the motor is still working... I don't know where is the problem from... But if I upgreade my receiver there is no holder or place for fitting the new servo Bcoz 3 wire servo is little bit more sizer than 5 wire.... So the only possible way is to repair the old servo 😑
@@sachin4524 There are many different sizes for servo. Try looking in Hobbyking.com and you'll probably find one that is close to the original size.
I done it 3 times and waste 3 my servo it's not work
It depends on the board and the servo you put it into, should be the same servo size. Also make sure you don't touch other components on the board otherwise it might be damaged.
You sir.... You are the greatest hero of all in RC world!!!
definite rookie here but you might enjoy a watch, slapped a WPL C-24 toyota pickup body onto a WPL B-1 frame, axles atop the springs not under, a long 0.5 modulus 8t pinion (on 20k RPM 180 motor) direct to output gear of the gearbox. the thing drifts pretty good considering. front hubs are only lined with aluminum can and light grease to reduce the slop, yesterday morning did minor filing to the front hub stops to get a tiny bit more steering angle from it. in the video (oh my low quality camera lol!) it's being run on asphalt (ouch!) and I'm not so good drift driving... but you can see it is fairly well behaved inexpensive little project. maybe WPL will see it and become interested to produce a low budget drift model? it's fun anyway.
Looks like a lot of fun. Thanks for sharing.
This video is for people who ordered a 3 wire servo from AliExpress but revived a 5 wire like me 😁
They did that to you? I guess apart from salvaging an old servo to convert you should file a claim.
Beaver's Hobby yeah
Be careful with the type of servo board you are using though. I tried to install a not kyosho made 716 motor in pn2.5w chassis and used a d1802 servo board. I end up chewing through 3 sets of servo gear before realize i need to add 20ohm resistors into the servo motor circuit to make it functiom properly....
And yesterday i fired the board... Need to buy a new servo ..Thankfully , it costs less than 5 bucks.
Thanks for the input.
Thank you for the warning! I will buy dedicated servos... Thanks 👍 again!!!
You insane! Ty
Very nice, as always
Good job.
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Does it power up? If it got power but doesn't move you can try and swap the signal wires around.
@@BeaversHobby yes it power up but i can't control the rotation.. is crazyy... i have switched all the wires but same result... maybe the control board isn't compatible..
@@jordanpierguidi1722 Incompatible control board is possible. In that case you just gotta let it go.
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Nicely done sir, useful. Quick heads-up, have you seen (rhetorical) they've started selling Radiolink 4ch receivers again?!... except they're now called R4FGM. I laughed (literally), the "M" stands for "Mini" ...as in, they're for this scale... i.e. they've taken them out of their little transluscent box and replaced it with shrink-wrap to save size & weight. Hmph, AND they cost $5 more than a 6ch. Think they've been watching your channel bud! No, no, no, don't get me wrong Mr. Radiolink, I am grateful, lol. #PleaseDontBlackListMeRadiolink
Yes, I've seen it. It's actually a tad smaller than standard board but not by much to make a huge difference.
Anyway, I'm not going to upgrade my RC3S to RC4GS because I asked them if I can use my R4F receivers (I have 5, pretty much in all my cars) and they said no. For some strange reason their supposedly "new" receivers that I have are not new enough to use with current batch of RC4GS.
@@BeaversHobby Yup, I didn't test my R4F before I spent ages joining it to an ESC, direct wiring everything and then resoldering and scratching my head why it didn't work. Don't get me wrong, I love my RC4GS, but I really resent constantly buying the 6 channel receivers for a 4ch transmitter. Ya, aaaanyway, this looks like a development for me... buuut, I was collecting the receiver shells, I was going to light them, make them into a mini desk sculpture, haha. Best laid plans of mice and men.
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