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The Tamiya motors have a green and yellow wire on them with bullet plugs. Does anyone know which color wire is the positive and which is the negative lead? I would appreciate any help that can be offered.

-Dan

Hi Dan , there are Tamiya manuals here

Blimp:
I own them too, however there is no mention of polarity. Just what color goes to what DMD color. I guess Tamiya didn't think that information relevant.
-Dan

Eastern:
The only reason it is relevant is because the unit is proportional. Perhaps just making sure that the feed is on the same color motor terminals for left and right will be sufficient.

Strangely enough I am working with highly modified Heng long proportional unit. Norm set it up for plug and play for the Heng Long controller. I already smoked the pump motor and the fan. So I hope there won't be future issues. The wires on the T05 are Blue, Violet, Orange and White. Tamiya failed to mark the terminals on the motors themselves.

-Dan

Eastern:
Yes, DC motors can be ran in either direction. So polarity wouldn't be particularly imporant other than the direction of rotation. The Heng Long smoke units and the circuit attatched that has rectifiers as well. I was more concerned with damaging the DMD/MF unit. Have you looked at the modification that Norm did that's in the show off section here? Take a look at it. Perhaps you'll have a picture of what I'm working with and adapting it to the Tamiya electronics.

This is the thread for the heng long smoker modification. Norm wound up engineering out the bugs from the poor quality production smoke units. I burnt the small fan up, which are rated at 5V. After a bit of work with the multimeter I found the LiPo pack puts out 8.4V, not 7.4 that it is rated. I will have to drop the input voltage to avoid burning up the pump and fan motors.

-Dan

http://www.rctankwarfare.co.uk/forums/v ... =33&t=8027

Eastern Front wrote:Dan, would like to see it, do you have the thresd link or thread name?

Cheers!

I started a thread about the Plug & Play adapter on this site:http://www.rctankwarfare.co.uk/forums/v ... .php?f=184

Norm, Thank you for posting the link. I did it this morning and for some reason it's not showing. Great work on Norm's part and I now know how to wire it into Tamiya's electronics.
-Dan