Build Your Own Servo Winch 

David Spinney yeah I briefly mentioned using the board but personally I’ve had really bad luck doing that. Many others that run with me have the same issue with drifting, plus most of us run these things on 3S off the 1060 esc.

@@ExocagedRC Exactly, I just picked up another 1060 just for this purpose. Those and the 1080's are my go to. Another great video and thanks for getting back. Some guys I dont think even read the comments let alone get back to use. Have a good day.

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I've shown servo winches in several vehicles, I use a 1060 ESC as winch controller and power straight from the main battery

@@ExocagedRC Is the 2 esc wired into the 1 receiver.

Tom Andrews I’ve done that before, the issue is the servo boards have a very tight neutral band width and drifting so the result, the line slowly spools out or in while driving causing issues. The other reason I do them this way is so I can run them on 2S or 3S power, using the servo board from the receiver method limits you to whatever the receiver can handle. I compete a lot and when winching I want fast and strong, slow takes too long when seconds count.

@@ExocagedRC Thanks I have several old servos and have been thinking of doing this

arcterus01 the esc’s I showed are what the servo connects to, they connect to the receiver and get power straight from the battery. I use the JST connectors like you see here, the small red ones. Yes a 3pos momentary is best to control these.

Cool! But how exactly?

panic mike look at a potentiometer as a light dimmer. When it’s centered it’s ready to receive a signal at standby and when it’s not centered its executing it’s given command of turning something left and right ie: servo motor. Well I take the potentiometer and I connect to a receiver via the standard connectors with the red white and black wire. Then I take the red and black wires that are exiting the potentiometer on the other side and I solder led lights to them, usually a string of amber red and white lights. The potentiometer acts as a signal recipient so you can turn your lights on and off via any spare channel. On my 3 or 4 chan radios it’s usually in the 3rd channel. But I have a surface radio by Hobao that has a rotory dial that oddly lets you set the lights to strobe, Dunn or turn off completely

@@SweatyHanes That's smart! So basically instead of using a led light Controller Switch on the receiver your using just one servo potentiometer? The center pin of the potentiometer is the signal so you solder the white wire and connect to receivers x ch. signal center pin right? Then black and red go to left and right pin of potentiometer and connect to receivers x ch. positive and negative pins and then you solder leds on left and right pins of potentiometer ? Does the potentiometer need to be centerd to turn lights on and off from transmitter or it needs to be turn left or right? Am a little confused.. Will it operate 4 standard 5mm bright leds? Or am i going to short and fry the receiver by doing this?

you have to use an esc or winch controller to control it. look up my video on using a hobbywing 1060 as a winch controller

Yes

you'll still need a way to control it. depending on funds, the 99micro servo winch is plug and play plus its small and can pull 22lbs.

@@ExocagedRC These servos can pull 25 Kg. Some people said I don't need an ESC but the speed will stay constant which is ok.

A separate esc like I use or a winch controller. So yeah you’ll need a controller of some sort.

Many radios have settings that can do 3 position switches. The one I use is a Hacked 8ch Flysky GT3c and it has momentary which works great. You’ll have to figure out how to do it with your radio.

Baxrok2 use any high speed servo and run it on 3S from an esc. I also use the Solar D771 and it’s walking speed fast on 3S. It’s a 23spline so finding a nice spool takes a bit more looking.

@@ExocagedRC Hell, walking speed fast is good enough for me. Thanks!

Yeah. Many rebrands are the 1060

They’re still out there but I haven’t made them in years.

@@ExocagedRC ok cool. Preciate the response. I plan on making more servo winches for my other rigs

Calyn G really? So it can do a full 360 turn?

Yessir

Without the potentiometer yeah. You can glue the pot at center and then use a channel to control which direction. That’s on receiver voltage. We used 1060 esc’s as winch controllers on 3S.

@@ExocagedRC So the internal pot within the Servo, I'm assuming it just supplies "degree" information to the 3rd wire? Couldn't you just leave it, the pot can spin 360?

Zachary Perry the best way, also the way I do it, Is to use a jst off the battery plug at the esc to power either a 1060 esc or another winch controller to control the servo winch

@@ExocagedRC will I have to pull the red wire off that goes to the reciever wiring it up that way?

Zachary Perry yep

@@ExocagedRC thanks for your help keep up the good informative vids there awsome