Kraton External BEC QUESTION

[Jluther@becoinc]

I want to put a castle BEC on my Kraton EXB but don’t have room in my receiver box. I definitely want it to be waterproof. Have you guys ever found a bigger receiver box for these trucks?

 

[gotnitro]

What ESC are you currently using? Most of them have an internal BEC.

 

[morrjr71]

Look at this post.

https://www.arrmaforum.com/threads/custom-6s-receiver-box-extensions-spacers-raisers.59810/

 

[Just a hobby]

I want to put a castle BEC on my Kraton EXB but don’t have room in my receiver box. I definitely want it to be waterproof. Have you guys ever found a bigger receiver box for these trucks?

External bec will get hot. I don't think you want to put that in your receiver box.

 

[eyeopenher]

Castle makes a waterproof BEC… I ran them in my scalers…

I did run the cheap China ones also. I just liquid taped them and sealed them up. Never had a problem. But I wasn’t running high powered units. They were trail rigs and crawlers.

 

[Jluther@becoinc]

Castle makes a waterproof BEC… I ran them in my scalers…

I did run the cheap China ones also. I just liquid taped them and sealed them up. Never had a problem. But I wasn’t running high powered units. They were trail rigs and crawlers.

I have the waterproof one on another build and it works great. Just looks like crap shoo gooed on top of my receiver box. This time I was going to use the 14 amp one and try to hide it. But if you guys have had luck maybe heat shrinking it. Then maybe I could do that and tuck it down somewhere. I guess I could attach it to the roll cage. I was hoping maybe you guys might have some ideas

 

[Rocketzx1]

External bec will get hot. I don't think you want to put that in your receiver box.

I use the 10a V1 Hobbywing 2-6s UBEC 5v-8.4v. I modified one of the 3s receiver boxes and have it in there to keep it dry, and nice and clean. I have it powering 2 fans at 8.4v and a single servo at 8.4v in my Erevo 2.0, works great. It never gets hot.

If your bec is getting hot to the touch, somethings wrong.