Mr_Stripes
Elite member
I need a y harness and I have a load of servo extensions. If I solder the yellow wire to the yellow, red to red, brown to brown it should work right?
Thx,
Mr_Stripes
Thx,
Mr_Stripes
Making a Y harness
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Matthewdupreez
Legendary member
why make a Y header pin? that is the question
PsyBorg
Wake up! Time to fly!
He already has working extensions. Why destroy them to make a Y harness and maybe have issues with working them small pins. Its the same amount of solder work but leaves the extensions intact to move to other planes after this one dies.
Intashu
Elite member
I happily cut up my extenders to make Y harnesses out of them. and yes just matching colors together it should work without issues.
I personally prefer to make sure to use a little piece of shrink-wrap on each wire after soldering, then put a larger piece of shrink-wrap around the whole split so there's a far less likely chance that in a crash the pulled wires will rip this joint apart... I've tested this by crashing planes where only the servo wire was holding the wing to plane when I picked it up. (not intentionally I assure you!)
Just make sure all three wires are wrapped tightly before soldering so there's less chance of signal issues and you'll be fine!
Making a Y header pin is a great idea as well.. if you already have all the necessary parts for it.
I personally prefer to make sure to use a little piece of shrink-wrap on each wire after soldering, then put a larger piece of shrink-wrap around the whole split so there's a far less likely chance that in a crash the pulled wires will rip this joint apart... I've tested this by crashing planes where only the servo wire was holding the wing to plane when I picked it up. (not intentionally I assure you!)
Just make sure all three wires are wrapped tightly before soldering so there's less chance of signal issues and you'll be fine!
Making a Y header pin is a great idea as well.. if you already have all the necessary parts for it.
Mr_Stripes
Elite member
I would like to make that but I don't have the parts and I don't want to wait forever to get them. I would like to make that in the future tho. Thx for the help guys!
Yes, that will work. I recommend staggering the solder joints.
If you have the materials, PsyBorg’s Y pin header is less destructive and easily reversed.
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PsyBorg
Wake up! Time to fly!
Well as you grow with the multi rotor part of the hobby remember that those pins come with flight controllers some times and to keep a stash of them for times like these as you progress and become an RC pack rat like the rest of us. NEVER throw small parts away,
Mr_Stripes
Elite member
Oh I already do that. I have more servo horns than I will need in my lifetime.
Bricks
Master member
I do too but will any of them fit the servo I am working on, many times NOT. Hard to believe right dig thru a couple hundred servo arms just to find out nope, nada, nothing.
