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Old 02-28-2018, 02:06 PM
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Default Extending the battery leads

In my project of building a bus, there seems to be a need to extend the length of battery wires by about 6''. The question I have is: how it will affect the performance of the system, what thickness wires should be?
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Old 02-28-2018, 02:25 PM
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Lightbulb Re: Extending the battery leads

Rule of thumb is : low volt high amp draw, thick lead. so i say 12 Gauge would work even if you run a hot motor like 15-20 turn.
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Default Re: Extending the battery leads

Thanks Bo, do you think it would be better to extend motor leads,or it is the same?
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Default Re: Extending the battery leads

It's about the same. All depends on your setup. If you'd rather keep the battery, esc, reciever all in the same general area I'd extend the motor wires. Or what you could do is put a connector on the motor side of the ESC then add the length you need to the motor to reach the ESC with the right connector on it.
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Default Re: Extending the battery leads

I'd use whatever gauge stranded wire it already used on the esc, or go a little larger. It's not like you're running a race car pulling 100+ Amps

Then i'd play around with the chassis to see where stuff made the most sence to hide parts. Maybe the batt goes in belly storage, or stuffing most of it in the engine hatch makes more sence.
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Default Re: Extending the battery leads

When I built my daycab the battery was in the chassis rails and the MFU laid flat under the drivers seat so instead of extending the MFU wires I when to Jaycar ( electronics store ) and grabed some wire the same as the power leads and made a extention and swaped all the plugs to deans on MFU & Battery and the extention was feed through holes in the cross members. that way the battery or MFU could be removed later,
So have a think about that when working the wire diagram out...

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Thanks Tracy, will do exactly the same
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