Poll..Deans or Gold Plug connectors for you batts

[jhautz]

Deans. If I ever feel the deans getting warm at all I'll think about changing. Until then I wouldn't bother changing everything over. Way to much stuff. 5.5mm bullets on esc to motor connection on everything. that way motors batteries escs whatever can be swapped around model to model for testing different configurations. I'm a tinkerer and rarely run the same setup in a truck for very long before the urge to try something else strikes me. I play musical motors, esc, batteries all the time.

I read an article a while back that tested a bunch of these connectors. I cant remember which magazine it was, but the conclusion I remember was that Deans, Traxxas, 5.5mm bullets all tested as basically invisible when soldered in series on a 12 gauge wire. if the resistance of the plug is equal to an equivalent length of 12ga wire then its good enough for me.

[bruce750i]

Deans
Traxxas didn't even use solder on some of my esc's plugs.(easy fix tho) If one had to couldn't they just use two deans instead of one on the esc & lipos? (soldering one wire to both plug poles, one for the positive and one for the negative) Also when making a series connector could the plugs be sized different per load at connection? (1 x Dean at each lipo and 5.5MM at esc)