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Old 09-04-2011, 03:09 PM
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Default RE: 8AWG wire to a Deans Connector?

Connecting deans together when soldering risks distorting the casing as it gets hot, due to the spring pressure against the flat plates.

Deans are NOT recommended on anything above 6s purely for the reason of soft start, how do you soft start when plugging deans together???

Bullets (not banana plugs) have more contact area for both the connection and the soldering point, plus you can add a resistor to the ESC side for soft starting, this helps to save your ESC caps and ultimately your ESC from premature death. Pic attached.

PLUSbullets are far easier to work with on multi pack setups, they simply plug into each other to create series packs, no Y harnesses needed.

I used to use real Deans on a 70E size chipmunk, 6s and 70+ amps, the plugs got warm, wiring was stock ESC length, no extensions. All converted to 5.5mm long bullets now, much easier to deal with and no temp rise.

Lastly, you get what you pay for even with plugs and wire, HK wire is very difficult to solder due to low copper content, its cheap silicon wire, same with the plugs, the machining quality of the cheap plugs vs premium plugs is quite apparent, bad machining = poor contact. Pic attached.
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