I need some help to solve a personal issue. I am a Radio Control nitro car racer and to start the nitro cars you need a glow igniter that usually are battery power and bump box.
My issue is that sometime I go racing or practice and realize my glow igniter is discharge so I either wait for someone else to arrive to the track or head back home.
In my bump box that makes my engine spin to get it going, I use a 3s 8000mah lipo battery and it is 11.1v so I found in Amazon these glow igniter that can be connected to any lipo battery that has a voltage regulator that brings down the voltage to 1.5v which is what us needed for the glow igniter.
So I bought these Amazon to test them with my 3s lipo battery and it work perfectly so I decided to make a 3D printed box for the voltage regulator and change the wiring to have a better wire management.
After I removed the wires and solder new ones the igniter is no longer working, so I thought I might damage it but the readings in the voltage regulator is accurate and the module seems to be working, but I have limited to now electronics knowledge so I bought another and the same thing happen.
After doing some research I found I'm Amazon the DC to DC buck converter set down module so I got one solder the wires hook it to my 3s lipo adjusted the output to 1.5v but the same thing happens. The voltage in the regulator reads 1.5v, at the glow igniter reads 1.5v but when I put the glow plug the voltage goes to 0 and the glow plug does not ignites.
As I mentioned before I have limited to none electronics knowledge but I want to try to figure this out because this is an idea that a lot of people in my RC community are interested so this could be a good opportunity.
Thanks William
The attached picture is the glow igniter that I bought from Amazon. The green regulator came with the igniter that stopped working after I replace the wires and the blue regulator is the buck convertor also from Amazon.
My issue is that sometime I go racing or practice and realize my glow igniter is discharge so I either wait for someone else to arrive to the track or head back home.
In my bump box that makes my engine spin to get it going, I use a 3s 8000mah lipo battery and it is 11.1v so I found in Amazon these glow igniter that can be connected to any lipo battery that has a voltage regulator that brings down the voltage to 1.5v which is what us needed for the glow igniter.
So I bought these Amazon to test them with my 3s lipo battery and it work perfectly so I decided to make a 3D printed box for the voltage regulator and change the wiring to have a better wire management.
After I removed the wires and solder new ones the igniter is no longer working, so I thought I might damage it but the readings in the voltage regulator is accurate and the module seems to be working, but I have limited to now electronics knowledge so I bought another and the same thing happen.
After doing some research I found I'm Amazon the DC to DC buck converter set down module so I got one solder the wires hook it to my 3s lipo adjusted the output to 1.5v but the same thing happens. The voltage in the regulator reads 1.5v, at the glow igniter reads 1.5v but when I put the glow plug the voltage goes to 0 and the glow plug does not ignites.
As I mentioned before I have limited to none electronics knowledge but I want to try to figure this out because this is an idea that a lot of people in my RC community are interested so this could be a good opportunity.
Thanks William
The attached picture is the glow igniter that I bought from Amazon. The green regulator came with the igniter that stopped working after I replace the wires and the blue regulator is the buck convertor also from Amazon.
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