If you made your battery pack, you can do this - it's easy. It'll look like this:
1 2 3
| | |
|__|__|
| |
| [ ] |
|_____|
1 = (+) input (in from your 9.6v RC battery)
2 = (-) ground (in from your 9.6v RC battery)
3 = (+) output (out to your MD)
The VR dissipates the extra voltage as heat, so you may want a small heat sink - not sure if it's absolutely necessary, but it certainly couldn't hurt. It's also a good idea to use shrink tubing around each of the pins/solder connections.
You should be able to get a 7805 5v output voltage regulator at RS. When they pull it up on the inventory computer, it should reference a heat sink and some contact paste that goes with it. You just put contact paste on the base of the heat sink and then screw the heat sink and VR together. It's a no brainer.
Hope this helps!
If you made your battery pack, you can do this - it's easy. It'll look like this:
1 2 3
| | |
|__|__|
| |
| [ ] |
|_____|
1 = (+) input (in from your 9.6v RC battery)
2 = (-) ground (in from your 9.6v RC battery)
3 = (+) output (out to your MD)
Which of the 2 wires to the MD do I put on 3? The + one, and then the - goes to 2 with the -'s from the battery?.?.?
-Kevin