Ian

You'd be best advised to buy a wiring harness which includes a receiver connection, a switch, a battery connector and possibly a charger connector as well. This one should do the job **LINK**

A battery pack with a Futaba 3-pin connector will fit **LINK**

Dave M

If the receiver for the Flysky i6 is the same as mine there is no case, it is just pushed into a plastic sleeve and the pins are vertical at the end of the sleeve, so either plug will fit.

Eddie.

Depending on the project, is a receiver battery needed? If an ESC is involved, a lot of them have a BEC built in which provides a handy power source for the receiver and whatever else is plugged into it.

Hi Ian

You will be fine with a 4 or 5 cell AA sized receiver battery for the winch & steering Servo's

Regards Ray

Hi. again Ian, for my model yachts with 4 AA or 4 AAA cells I am using a Fusion NX 83 £9.99 from my local model shop, it will charge 4-8 NI-Cad or NI-MH cells, just plug it into the switch harness charge socket and wait for the red light to change to green, job done. It will also has a plug to charge a transmitter battery but the Flysky i6 does not have this facility, but it is there if you need it in the future.

Regards

Eddie

As said earlier, in the boat it just needs the 4 or 5 cell AA pack and a switch harness.

Using AA NiMH, both transmitter and receiver batteries will want to charge at the same (low) rate, but if the transmitter has 8 cells and receiver 4 or 5, obviously they are different voltages. If using one charger to do both at the same time, it will need to be a bit special. At least having a way of preventing the two batteries "seeing" each other.

Having spent much of my working life messing with electric bits, I had a tendency to knock my own together. I used a cheap battery eliminator from one of the cheapo chains with a current limiting high wattage resistor inserted into one of its leads. Add an appropriate connector, repeat with another eliminator for the other battery, result two overnight chargers. I can't be very specific, because I did them over 15 years ago and the memory has fogged and it just sits there and works. Low cost chargers often say quote their voltage and say something like "300mA". They rarely say whether they have a circuit built in to limit them to that maximum, or whether the components inside start to overheat at that point. Quite often, they are the £1.99 eliminator with a different label and higher price.

A write-up on the NX 83 (sounds rather more classy than the £1.99 eliminator) here – https://www.logicrc.com/reviews/OFSNX83_RCMW_052011.pdf – One battery at a time, overnight charging. One at a time should not be a problem – the transmitter, when charged, should last for several sessions.

Consider mAH as equating to gallons in the tank. The more gallons, the further you can drive. With sailboats, practice helps. The more practiced you get, the less you have to do with the steering and sailwinch, the longer you get to sail before you need to recharge.

Delta Peak – as I understand it, the charger offers the battery LOTS of current at rather too much voltage in short pulses. After each pulse, it looks at the voltage and when it considers that the voltage is not rising any more, decides that enough charging has happened, and stops. I regard my overnight trickle chargers as cheap, cheerful and reliable.