sick of paying $3 for deans plugs

Your griping about $3 for high quality, hobby grade power plugs? Welcome to hobbys. No one said this shit was cheap. This is even more ironic coming from someone who lives in one of the most expensive cities in the nation.

Perhaps Nikko is more your thing?

[glassdoctor]

Originally Posted by Freezebyte

Your griping about $3 for high quality, hobby grade power plugs? Welcome to hobbys. No one said this shit was cheap. This is even more ironic coming from someone who lives in one of the most expensive cities in the nation.

Perhaps Nikko is more your thing?

Jeeze, you are just full of wisdom, and are a real asset to the RCM community. where's the rollyeyes?

I've used some of those ribbed hobby city ones, and some I got from a vendor at the ihobby expo. (lightning power) So far, I haven't had much issue except that the plastic is softer and melts much easier than the genuine deans... and the fit and finish is not as good.

I use them mainly for things like charge leads, or on my kids cars, etc... not usually for my main race car and packs. But I have used them when I was out of deans, and never noticed any power losses or heat issues.

I think the chinese packs that come with connectors are often HORRIBLY soldered... with big blobs of solder etc. I would recommend ALWAYS re-doing the solder work on these packs. Besides, the lead wires are always longer than needed, so they should be shortened anyway. I think all the long wires and crappy solder joints are a common cause of problems people have with high power electric cars.

[zeropointbug]

Originally Posted by Freezebyte

Your griping about $3 for high quality, hobby grade power plugs? Welcome to hobbys. No one said this shit was cheap. This is even more ironic coming from someone who lives in one of the most expensive cities in the nation.

Perhaps Nikko is more your thing?

I'm not bashing Deans connectors, buut, what is so high quality about them??

It's just two pieces of metal melted into a blob of plastic.

Originally Posted by zeropointbug

I'm not bashing Deans connectors, buut, what is so high quality about them??

It's just two pieces of metal melted into a blob of plastic.

Go ahead and use Tamiya connectors then and watch what happens.

[scarletboa]

Originally Posted by Freezebyte

Go ahead and use Tamiya connectors then and watch what happens.

been there, done that (mostly for shits and giggles)

i was surprised when they were able to handle my rustler vxl on 3s, but i made a funky adaptor for my savage and they melted within 2 minutes.

[zeropointbug]

Originally Posted by Freezebyte

Go ahead and use Tamiya connectors then and watch what happens.

Why are you still comparing the Deans to Tamiya's? Yes, we know they are worlds better... as far as I can read, we are comparing to bullet connectors.