Introduction: DIY Servo Splitter for RC Planes in 10 Minutes!
Hey I recently got into RC electronics so I'm starting to put out some i'bles on the subject! Well while I was building my RC plane I came across a little dilemma- I didn't have a servo splitter. I was thinking I'd have to wait another week to get to the hobby shop and buy one and that would cost me money and time. Then I had a bright idea, why buy one when I could make one!?? What I'm trying to replicate is http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/788
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Enjoy!
Step 1: Ingredients:
- 6 pin headers cut in half to make two 3 pin header segments
- 3 female pin headers or a broken servo end connector
- Broken servo (for the wire) or 3 wires (however long you need them)
- Soldering gun and solder
- Krazy Glue
- Soldering gun and solder
- Wire clippers/strippers/cutters
- Helping Hands
- Two sizes of heat shrink tubing
- Lighter or heatgun.
Step 2:
Cut your servo wire to desired length and strip both ends of the wire. Separate each wire apart for about 1 1/2 inches.
After splitting the wires add some solder to the wires. This will help with the soldering process later on.
Step 3:
- Lay the 3pin header down on your work area.
- Add a generous amount of Krazy glue
- Stack the other 3pin header on top and hold until the glue dries (around 10 seconds).
Step 4:
- Clamp your twin pin headers in a helping hand.
- Carefully add a bead of solder in between each of the two leads.
- Add a small piece of heat shrink to each wire.
- Solder the brown wire (or black) all the way to one side.
- Solder the red wire to the middle
- Solder the yellow (or white) wire all the way to the other side.
- Shrink all the tubing and make note which side has the brown wire.
- Now slide a medium sized piece of heat shrink tubing over all the connections and make sure you known which side the brown wire is own. Shrink and and take a sharpie and draw a black mark on one side. This indicates which side the negative lead is on.
Step 5:
- On the other side of the wire add a small piece of heat shrink to each wire and a medium sized piece over all of the wires.
- Solder the wires to the female header. Just make sure the the brown is on one side and the red wire is in the middle.
- Shrink all the tubing and your done!

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Comments
6 years ago
have not made it yet but will be making a few to have on hand! I've been in the situation a few times where I needed one and did not have it.