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I need some help identifing which set of wire is for what? dont want to take a 50/50 chance. ie which is motor wires and which is battery.

Any pictures I could find dont show it clear enough or it shows 1st and 3rd wire from left being power in.

Eeek...those are not original wires. I wonder how they look at the board.....

maybe I need to take some pics with the covers off ??
Would be easier to start fresh wires anyways.

Would anybody know where wires go on the board??

usually on novaks, the outer wires are battery, the inners are motor.

when i look at the image in the manual......

http://www.teamnovak.com/download/instructions/pdfs/explorer_II.pdf

it seems to go (from left to right) battery +, motor +, battery -, motor -.

yeah I think your right, and someone crossed the two grounds when putting the case back together. Thinking I may power this one up with fused power supply

OK, I'll see if you can follow this.

the esc has an internal regulator, for BEC. This is usually a 3 tab device, sometimes they mount with little gullwing legs, and sometimes they look like a miniFET. one side of the regulator goes to the batt+ lead, one side goes to the receiver red wire, and usually, the switch will break the connection along there somewhere(most likely on the batt+ side, it probably ties into the same pad as one of the big red wires). The third lead is the reference leg, which is almost always GND. so you can follow the three traces around the board to see which one of the black wires ties into that little regulator. the other black wire will connect to the FET's only.

OH, also, even easier. Follow the traces on the black receiver wire, whichever large lead is connected to it will be BATT-. As far as the positive leads since this is a forward/brake only, they 'should' be wired together, so either can be used for either.

I did follow as best as I could and tried it the way I thought made sense and tah-dah!!! works great. My 33 year old eyes dont work as good as my 23 year old eyes or I may have been able to follow a bit bettter

33 eyes? are you a fly?

there I editted it so no-one has any idea what your talking about

FYI-my local hobby shop has a guy who will solder new wires on old ESC's. Maybe yours does too. I can solder lots of stuff but not escs, lol

on your esc, the short wires are for battery and long ones are for motor.

slapshot1979 wrote:there I editted it so no-one has any idea what your talking about