I was wondering how I could be able to add a USB port into my board. Yes I know, it’s extra, but just in case my remote dies or phone dies, I’ll be prepared.
I have 2 ideas:
Get a voltage downgrader thing from Amazon. Like this. The problem with this is that it takes up a lot of space (80x75x31mm) (more info on space below)
Solder straight from my vx1 receiver. The good part about the receiver us that it has a dedicated 5v wire which I can solder onto. I just don’t know if this will take voltage away from my receiver or anything. This Won’t take a lot of space at all
The problem with both of these is space. I do not know if I’ll have enough space in my enclosure. I am using the eBoosted 10a4p enclosures for my loaded vanguard with a. 10s4p vtc6 battery. Has anyone done this before?
Also, I cannot seem to find a USB port I can just solder onto. If anyone has one of those, let me know.
Just get a powerbank. I have a modular powerbank that allows me to put any 18650 I want in it (it also doubles as a 18650 charger for all my spares). So I carry it and a 8x battery case.
If you want a USB charging jack on your skate, you can dial that to about 5.2V with a multimeter and connect it to a USB jack in your enclosure and that’s it. No separate battery to charge.
That’s much, much better than powering it from your radio receiver (ESC) +5V pin, because any problems or malfunctions or drawing too much current, and you would blow your DRV chip that way, which would kill the ESC and you’d lose brakes as well.
Well as Brian states, I bought the lower one. But no, I connected it to a 6s and it went poof. Had 5 of them and decided to try 3 times before contacting Amazon for answers. They requested I send back the blown units (seller wanted to “investigate”) and refunded me.
Was gonna use em for my diy television. Wanted to make it portable for my daughter in the car.
