Traxxas all the way..

P.S.
Practice, practice, practice = perfection not compromises:mdr:

I felt the same way....then I found these;
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k1...m/IMG_1334.jpg

They have a raised grip on them and they are easier to get apart.

are those deans? I never saw those before. Pretty cool

They are listed as "Deans Style T Connectors" The picture they have has not been updated, but I have ordered these on 3 different occasions and they all have the grip!

Only $6 for 10 sets as well
http://www.hobbycity.com/hobbycity/s...idProduct=2116

i posted that last one W/O thinking...

I was only trying to share a good find. If the moderators feel that it is wrong for me to post product for another site please delete it and I apologize. Mike is awesome and I would NEVER try to hurt is business.

i use these as well, they seem to loosen over time but if they do i jsut get a new set! i got 50 pairs sitting here...

I dont think Mike will mind, he'll probably order a boat load of them and resell them, lol.

I love my 5.5mm gold plugs. They do loosen over time yeah, but its a piece of cake to freshen them up, and clean them, and solder them, and they just look nicer too...

the ribbed for your pleasure 'deans-type'....works!

Those are sweet ! now ya tell me after I changed 6-8 escs over and made 4 series and 2 parallel adapters out of the slippery deans LOL ..guess I can just slowly start adding those on. thx

I have zip lock bag full of these, they are cool but I strongly recommend to use the trick of "mailman" to solder them (use male + female connector when soldering) ,

I found that the plastic melt somewhat quickly with a my fat 100 watt soldering iron o_O

Heh, I couldnt get the solder posts/legs hot enough to make solder stick to them, the plastic just melted instead with my 40watt iron. Hence my love of the 5.5mm plugs...

sorry...i was slow on the draw :whip:


I managed to melt one of these because i wasn't payin attension, but at this price, i bought plenty of extras so no biggie :neutral:


Thats a good Idea about hookin' two together before soldering for heat dissapation...i'll do that next time. thanks mailman!

Guys is there a standard with polarity on the Dean's micros?

They're identical, of course, but should the prong be wired for, say (+) on the battery side and (-) on the load side?

The idea is to prevent accidental short circuits, so try to use the female side on the end that is supplying the power. Just think of how your house wiring works. :smile:

Brian, you should re-read my post :)

With Dean's micros, it doesn't matter if the one exposed term is pos or neg, I just wondered if there was a standard for load side/batt side, I think maybe not?

Reason I'd like to know is I'll have 4 pairs in close proximity to themselves, I'd just like to know so I can do all 4 the same in attempt to prevent an oops with crossing packs (am running 2x2S with 2 Deans micros running off each pack)

I shoulda been a bit more specific, I didn't wanna start a thread for this ;) so I just picked the newest "connector" thread...

Update, I answered my own question. Here's the answer to the riddle.... http://www2.gpmd.com/imagel/g/lgpmp0595.jpg

;)

Even if the pos on one pack touched the neg on another nothing would happen (still an open circuit). But you still want them to all be the same so you don't mess up your esc.