In need of traxxas battery connectors.

[ElChupacabra]

I hope your all happy. You just cost me $25. I bought the 20 pairs of xt connectors and my parallel charging board for xt60 connectors. I did buy the xt60u connectors. they are the newest ones from amass. Anyhow, here is to a day of soldering. Gonna need some beer.

You did the right thing. You'll be glad. This story had a happy ending....

 

[WHITE-TRASH]

You did the right thing. You'll be glad. This story had a happy ending....

Seriously. I ran deans forfawkingever and thought they were great. Then I started running bigger power and realized I'd need to upgrade my connectors. Luckily a couple friends had recently switched to xt60 so I got to check them out. An afternoon of soldering later I'm happy as could be.

 

[stevetate12]

I have been using traxxas connectors for a long time ..i justvstuck.witg what works...but they changed them and now you wont be able to buy anything otger than a traxxas battery with the connector so im.switching to the xt60 connetors due to.a suggestion and tge fact that ebay has packs of 10-20 pairs with heat shrink for like 20 bucks the connectors dont come apart/easier to solder /smaller and will do.the same job for me ...

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[Frank211]

Y'all making me think about switching over too, lol. I just hate soldering, I suck at it... Lol

 

[Motorider]

Make you a deal on about 10 pairs authentic traxxas connectors. I have never had a problem with authentic trx connectors. No chance they are coming apart. In fact my battery has come of my rig on a crash and it held together.

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[ElChupacabra]

Y'all making me think about switching over too, lol. I just hate soldering, I suck at it... Lol

You probably need a better iron. I thought I sucked at soldering forever and finally invested in a good iron. Makes all the difference.

 

[84yoda]

I hope your all happy. You just cost me $25. I bought the 20 pairs of xt connectors and my parallel charging board for xt60 connectors. I did buy the xt60u connectors. they are the newest ones from amass. Anyhow, here is to a day of soldering. Gonna need some beer.

LOL. :lmao:

You probably need a better iron. I thought I sucked at soldering forever and finally invested in a good iron. Makes all the difference.

Me too."thumbsup"

 

[Hydrocarbon92]

I hope your all happy. You just cost me $25. I bought the 20 pairs of xt connectors and my parallel charging board for xt60 connectors. I did buy the xt60u connectors. they are the newest ones from amass. Anyhow, here is to a day of soldering. Gonna need some beer.

I just did a few of the xt60u's for my ISDT charger and it was the *easiest* ever. I barely touched my 140W Weller to them and they were tinned, then just pushed the tinned wire to the tab and it was fused. One I didn't like the angle so I re-melted it 3 times and the plastic wasn't even phased. A real Deans Ultra tab probably would have sunk at that point.

FYI if you can get additional sets from aliexpress for a bit less. I got 5pair of "Amass XT60+" for under $4. They have AMASS and XT60U-M on them and slip right into the few genuine XT60's I have from batteries.

FYI2 if you plan on using enough power to need 12awg, you might want to consider XT90's.

 

[mikemcE]

Here’s a great read .....
http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/electronics/584551-good-bye-dean.html


Hang up and Drive

 

[JatoTheRipper]

Maybe 90A burst, but not 90A continuous.

Real XT60's and XT90's (90A continuous) are also no-shrink, the 90's can even come in anti-spark form. There's also XT5's which are glorified yet cheap 5mm bullets and are rated for 120A continuous, also no-shrink tubing needed.

What are the anti spark versions?

I still use shrink wrap on XT60s.

 

[84yoda]

They dont spark when you plug them in. Castle has anti spark plugs as well.

 

[Motorider]

My iron is nothing special. I just have an old weller 40-300 watt adjustable controller with a 40 watt iron. Does a fabulous job.

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[Hydrocarbon92]

Usually 3S & higher has a very loud/bright spark when you connect the leads, it's generally from the ESC caps filling. More voltage & bigger caps make it worse; a boat ESC with an external cap bank can be pretty nuts. Anti-spark just has a resistor in the tip to slow the initial current. When fully inserted they bypass the resistor.

https://hobbyking.com/en_us/xt90-s-...EV2efx9N4lGLfFnZKW0aAkYUEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

The shrink-style XT60's are fine but the XT60U's give you a little more finger hold with the wire caps.