Which connectors?
03-28-2012, 07:17 PM
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RE: Which connectors?
I just made an adapter today for an EC-3 in an Icon A5. I used female bullet connecters with shrink tubing soldered to short wires connected to Sermos (APC) connecters. I really hate soldering and my Sermos connecters are crimped on to the wire. I bound the Icon to my DX8 an hour ago and it works fine.
03-29-2012, 03:12 PM
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RE: Which connectors?
A while ago I though I had pre-made adapters from Tower Hobbies. They are marketed as Supertigre. They don't fit although they look the same. They are red in color.
03-31-2012, 10:12 PM
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RE: Which connectors?
Anderson Powerpoles are great. They have a crimp tool - really the best crimp tool I've ever seen. Made specifically for the powerpoles; you can install 2 connectors from scratch in under a minute, flawlessly.
They have connectors in 3 common sizes (many more that are irrelevant for RC) and they all use the same housing, so you can plug anything into almost anything else.
They are rated for up to 45A, but they are high current parts (200+V, so rated for thousands of watts). I use them on my high power electric planes, running 70-80A at 40 volts. My chargers, power supplies, alligator cables all have them, car stereo... they are great everywhere.
http://www.powerwerx.com/anderson-po...owerpole-sets/
They have connectors in 3 common sizes (many more that are irrelevant for RC) and they all use the same housing, so you can plug anything into almost anything else.
They are rated for up to 45A, but they are high current parts (200+V, so rated for thousands of watts). I use them on my high power electric planes, running 70-80A at 40 volts. My chargers, power supplies, alligator cables all have them, car stereo... they are great everywhere.
http://www.powerwerx.com/anderson-po...owerpole-sets/
04-01-2012, 07:32 PM
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RE: Which connectors?
They don't without adapters. I generally cut off the Deans or such and crimp on Powerpoles. I didn't have enough room to do this with my Icon A5 so i made an adapter. Would you like a picture of the adapter?
04-02-2012, 02:32 PM
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RE: Which connectors?
The two pictures I enclosed show the adapter and the second the adapter conneced to the EC-3 connecter. The adapter is simply female bullet connecters from a disassembled EC-3 in an ESC package. These are soldered to short lengths of 14 guage wire and then crimped to the Powerpoles. The bullet connecters are standard EFlite items.
