Castle Creation:)

[Graham Lawrie]

I am trying to connect my Castle Creation Talon 90A with CC BEC PRO to a Microbeast Plus Pro V3 that i won 2 xmases ago.

The issue i have i think is RX related. I have one end of the CC BEC PRO with no where left to plug it in?

My question is do i need an 8 channel receiver?

[cml001]

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[cml001]

The Talon has a great BEC... Why use a seperate?

[Graham Lawrie]

The Talon has a great BEC... Why use a seperate?

Its the way my 550 was set up with an Align ESC and a CC BEC PRO?

I had done some research and others were doing the same? Might just use the Talon then?

[Graham Lawrie]

This is in the manual?

[cml001]

Not for the Talon... Use the link and set up the firmware to what u want including the BEC voltage u want to use... Then plug it into either ur FBL unit or RX... Good to go!

[cml001]

May want to calibrate tho!

[Graham Lawrie]

Thanks Clay will give it a go

[pvolcko]

If you're not going to use the BEC power from the talon, make sure to "lift" (pull the pin from the connector and either cut it off, cover it with tape or shrinktube, etc.) the power (red) wire from the talon's throttle connector. If you don't, you run the risk of powering the Rx from two different power sources and generating current loops and other bad things.

As for your extra connector off the BEC Pro... if you don't have an extra port to plug it into, you can either not use it (only really needed if you're pulling more than 10A) or you can swap the positive pin from that connector for the positive of the throttle connector (the one you "lifted" out of the way above). You can do the same for the black wire/pin, too.

But, if you're not pulling more than 10A, then I'd say just go with the Talon's built in BEC, no need for the BEC Pro.

[cml001]

Right right Paul! But I've been watching guys here bang the piss outta the Talon 90 & 120... Haven't seen any failures. I'd just go with the internal BEC. I'll tell ya something interesting iv seen lately about the BEC PRO... Got a guy here using it on his nitro.. That's right, I said it, nitro. So he uses his RX pack to the BEC PRO, then to the FBL unit... It's giving him no false telemetry warnings (if ur taxing the cyclic hard the voltage can sag momentarily activating the warning falsely) and gives him more flights per charge... Consistent voltage. Off topic, sorry.

[Graham Lawrie]

No Clay not off topic bang on :)great info guys:)

[pvolcko]

Yeah, I've seen that. If I ran Rx packs I'd still be thinking seriously about running a BEC in between, just to get consistent voltage delivery (no ultra fast servos on fresh rx pack, no sagging servos on low rc packs).

And the Talon. I think it essentially has a BEC Pro in it anyway, so yeah, I can see just using it even on heavy load setups. The downside, if the ESC craps out in flight, your BEC is probably dead too, so no auto-rotation or chance of saving it. Could put a opti-power ultra guard on there, or the scopion backup guard.

[Graham Lawrie]

I have the Scorpion backup guard on it:)