Baja LED Light Pods on a Savage Flux How-To

HPI Baja LED Light Pods on a HPI Savage Flux How-To

Here is a Short Video of the Baja lights on the Flux in Action.

Ok so I have a new HPI Racing Flux HP, and I have a set of Ramtech LEDs for the HPI Racing Baja so I figured why not put the LEDs on the front of my savage. Then I had an idea why not make the LEDs controllable like the ability to turn them off and on or flash them.

I started digging through my spare parts boxes and came up with something that is easy to do and shouldn’t take that long to do.

So what do you need to do this simple mod?

·A Savage Flux

·A three or four channel radio system.

·A Pico Relay switch (http://www.dimensionengineering.com/PicoSwitch.htm)

·A set of RamTech LEDs (http://www.ramtech-rc.com/product.sc?productId=25&categoryId=12)

·A male/male servo extender (http://www.servocity.com/html/male_to_male_extensions.html) or make one from spare parts like I did.

·A ¼” Drill

·A hobby knife or a dremel with a sanding drum.

·Wire cutters

·Wire strippers

·A small screw driver (Standard or Philips)

·Two small set screws

The radio system I am using in this How-To is the Futaba T4PK FASST, with a Futaba FASST 3 channel receiver. But it will also work with the Futaba 3PM FASST System as well.

I didn’t have a male/male servo extender so I made one out of two separate servo extensions but if you have a male/male servo extension it is easier because you do not have to do any soldering.

Here is a picture of my hack job wiring harness.

I will start with splicing the Pico Relay into the servo extension.

First decide which wire you wire you want to run through your Pico Relay. The First thing you will notice is there are three wires in the Servo extension. The three wires are a control wire (which we don’t need so just ignore it), a Positive wire, and a Negative wire. I decided to run the Negative wire through my relay because it is located on the outside of the servo extension so it is easier to get at, and you don’t have to pull all three wires apart.

So the first thing you need to do is to separate the Negative wire from the other two wires.

Then use your wire cutters to cut the negative wire about 1 ½ inches to 2 inches from one of the ends of the servo extension.

Now use your wire strippers to strip about an eighth inch of the insulation off the negative wire.

At this point you can either just twist the wires with your fingers to keep the ends nice or tin them with your soldering iron. If you do decide to tin them do not put too much solder on the ends or they will not fit into the Pico Relay.

Next insert each stripped wire into your Pico Relay and tighten up the small screws and that is all the cutting and splicing necessary.

Now it is time to hook up to the receiver first remove the Radio box cover and you should see your receiver with your steering servo and your ESC plugged into channels one and two.

Next Plug your Pico Relay into Channel Three on your Receiver. Make sure the brown wire is facing away from the antenna.

Channel Three is the Channel you will use on your radio to control the Pico Relay that will turn your LEDs off and on.

Now plug your servo extender into the spot on the receiver marked B/C this is where the power for your LED pods is going to come from.

Now just mount your Pico Relay somewhere safe using some servo tape and run the rest of the servo extender out the hole in the side of the top of the radio box cover.

If you would like to mount your LED Baja light pods the same way I did continue on to page two.

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