Sanwa M17 Kill switch setup

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Hi All , im running a Sanwa M17 with 4 servos on my Mcd Ultimate with the hydrax hydraulic brakes , but im having a hard time assigning a button/switch for the kill switch , the kill switch works just fine if i turn the transmitter off , any help would be appreciated Thanks
 

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I'm not sure if its the same for Sanwa but on my Radiolink I had to program one of my aux buttons as one of the 1st 4 channels because even know it said it was a 6ch remote only 4 of them were programmable and the other 2 were some sort of proxies "if I wanted to make the kill switch work with both a button and failsafe mode". There was no other way for me to make it work so perhaps that can help you.
 
Thanks for the reply , im running one servo for steering one for throttle and and 2 for brakes (which use channel 3 and channel 4) im running the kill switch off a y-harness from the steering servo , so i don't have any spare channels atm ,i did try running both brake servos off a y-harness but it wouldnt let me reverse one ,
 
The M17 allows one to put the radio into a particular car type for each model number ie electric ,nitro ,1/5 dual steering 1/5th dual brakes etc ,so i have it set to dual brakes so it mixes the brakes on channel 3 and 4 ,but for the time being turning the transmitter off works ,but not ideal , Thx for the replies everyone
 
MrGtr said:
The M17 allows one to put the radio into a particular car type for each model number ie electric ,nitro ,1/5 dual steering 1/5th dual brakes etc ,so i have it set to dual brakes so it mixes the brakes on channel 3 and 4 ,but for the time being turning the transmitter off works ,but not ideal , Thx for the replies everyone
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Don't bother with the presets in the radio, and set channel 3 as the kill switch, use channel 4 and 5 for your master/slave for the brakes. And if all else fails, you can get an inline servo reverser to use with a y harness for duel servo set up. I'd personally run a power bus, and just pull the signal off the receiver. Less chance of over amping the rx that way.
 
Seandonato73 said:
Don't bother with the presets in the radio, and set channel 3 as the kill switch, use channel 4 and 5 for your master/slave for the brakes. And if all else fails, you can get an inline servo reverser to use with a y harness for duel servo set up. I'd personally run a power bus, and just pull the signal off the receiver. Less chance of over amping the rx that way.
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Thanks for that i will give it a try.
 
Anyone having problems setting up Sanwa MT-S with KillerRc killswitch? i have got it to work so i can turn off the engine with SW2, but killswitch wont reset, need to turn off and on the car before i can start the engine again :)
Pimplaren said:
Anyone having problems setting up Sanwa MT-S with KillerRc killswitch? i have got it to work so i can turn off the engine with SW2, but killswitch wont reset, need to turn off and on the car before i can start the engine again :)
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AUX1 to SW2 and "point", "Step" does not work? odd stuff lol
 
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Omfg. I can’t figure out how to program my killswitch with my mt-44. Piece of poop Im about to throw it in the trash
 
You have to set the switch to go from -100 to +100 when operated as standard the switch will go from 0 to +100 but unless in 0 position it goes into the - numbers the kill switch will not operate.
I found this out by the switch seemingly not working and my kill switch light staying on but if I reversed the switch to operate from -100 to 0 the light on my kill switch never came on. You have to get the switch to be -100 for one position and then toggle the switch to be +100 for it to operate as a kill switch. I hope this makes sense I just need to figure out how to get the thing to go from full deflection in one position to the full opposite deflection in the next position. You are all correct the Sanwa train of thought when they programmed the radio doesn’t always make sense and the instructions booklet is incredibly hard to follow or understand lol.
 
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