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| View Poll Results: What battery connectors do you use? | |||
| Deans type |     | 122 | 80.79% |
| tamiya type |    | 20 | 13.25% |
| Sermos/ anderson PP |    | 8 | 5.30% |
| Traxxas VXL |    | 0 | 0% |
| Other |    | 1 | 0.66% |
| Voters: 151. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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10-10-2007, 09:47 AM
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| owner, Holmes Hobbies LLC   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Volt up! Gear down!
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|  What battery connectors do you use?
I want to see what battery connectors are most popular right now. Vote for what you use the most.
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10-10-2007, 09:55 AM
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| Web Wheeling   Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Twin Cities
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Looks a little one sided so far... Never would have guessed that one to take the lead  |
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10-10-2007, 10:02 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: US
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I'm using tamiya right now. I had deans on ALL my stuff... but that's all 4pin, and I left everything tamiya for awhile. Soon I'll switch to the two pin deans ultra or whatever it's called. I have some already... just didn't want to have a mix of both deans plugs. Now that all the 4pin electronics are basically dead, i'll do a full conversion. |
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10-10-2007, 10:03 AM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Detroit
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Deans is the only way to fly...
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10-10-2007, 10:11 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: North GA
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Pretty equal on deans/tamiya. All my older stick packs and chargers have tamiyas, while all my newer or custom packs have deans. Once the stick packs die, I'll probably switch the chargers to deans.
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10-10-2007, 10:23 AM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: MUSE, PA
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i personally like the Sermos PP's. they may not have the almost 0 resistance that a dean's has, but they are better made than a tamiys, and lock together nice and solid when connected. i used them on my batteries, AND my motor plugs...
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10-10-2007, 10:26 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: May 2006 Location: Pirkkala, Finland
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I've been a deans user since a tamiya connector got shortcircuited during driving a 1/10th buggy. At the same time I lost ESC and receiver, luckily the battery didn't explode. The amount of smoke coming from two little boxes is amazing  .
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10-10-2007, 10:50 AM
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| Web Wheeling Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Twin Cities
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I first switched frmo Tamiya to power poles, then after I got into racing clod busters I switched to deans. Life is much easier when everyone runs the same connectors. Lets you barrow ESC's, batterys, chargers, pretty much everything so you can fix your junk and keep going. And I prefer the smaller size of deans over power poles. Only down side of a deans connector, is if you heat them up to much, they won't make a solid connection. |
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10-10-2007, 11:02 AM
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| Rock Crawler  Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Man Cave!
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| Deans, less resistance means less heat and more power transfer, better for your electronics. Only other plugs I have experience with are tamiya and some plug I can't remember the name of, they had a red side and black side and could be slid together with notches to make different configurations. The tamiyas blow because they have to much resistance and heat build-up, which would make them melt in high power systems. The black & red bullet plugs were to easy to cross polorize <(can't think of the word) and blow up your electronics. |
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10-10-2007, 11:03 AM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Happiness is a warm AK.
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Deans since the mid 80's.  |
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10-10-2007, 11:19 AM
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| Moderator Rule Breaker  Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Austin, Tx
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Deans.
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10-10-2007, 11:33 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Detroit
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Anyone remember the Tamiyas getting so hot they'd melt together, ah I had to cut many a connector apart.
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10-10-2007, 11:42 AM
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| Winner of the '07 RCC dumbass award! Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Up on a Mountain, out in the Woods
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I replaced them twice then went to deans, never had a problem again! | |
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10-10-2007, 12:36 PM
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| I lost my vendor privileges Join Date: May 2006 Location: TOP OF THE HILL
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deans on all battery packs
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10-10-2007, 12:41 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Rockaway
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10-10-2007, 12:44 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2006 Location: Arlington, VA
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I use Deans the most but still have a few Tamiya type connectors. But they will get changed sooner or later.
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10-10-2007, 12:49 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Sin City
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I use Deans, but if you think you have something better let us in on it.
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10-10-2007, 12:57 PM
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| Winner of the '07 RCC dumbass award! Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Up on a Mountain, out in the Woods
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Wow  The people at ebonics would even be confused on that one... | |
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10-10-2007, 01:03 PM
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| I wanna be Dave   Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Burnsville
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Deans Ultra Plug for everything.
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10-10-2007, 01:03 PM
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| owner, Holmes Hobbies LLC Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Volt up! Gear down!
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From what I have seen the traxxas vxl connectors look very nice and easy to use. They are pricey though, and I would have to do quite a lot of soldering to switch over.
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