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Lord_Inferno
05-24-2007, 06:01 AM
CHANGING CONNECTOR PLUGS

Unsure how to do this?
This guide will ensure a good connection that will last.


What you will need for this task:

* Soldering iron
* Solder
* Connector
* Heat shrink


My recommendation for changing plugs would be to use a DEANS plug.

Its usually red with one connector piece going from left to right and the other going down to up.

These deans plugs have very little resistance and will cope much better with brushless than the tamiya plugs and original plugs that come with the standard speed controller

The first step is to get your battery or speed controller.
You will need to cut the wires (make sure you have enough left to join to the connector).

Once this is done you will want to strip the wire. Be careful when stripping the insulation as you do not want to cut the wires as well. A set of wire strippers will make the job much easier for you.

The way the deans plugs work is when looking at the plug with it at its longest point in the vertical position, the connector pointing LEFT to right is positive and the other being negative. If you are soldering the speed controller connector first, there is no urgency to keep the positive and negative wires that have been stripped separate. But if you are doing this to a battery, you will want to strip one wire, solder it to the connector and then do the other one.

The first step goes for both the battery wire soldering and speed controller soldering. You will want to put the actual dean plug with the smaller connectors facing you in a vice. You will want to put some heat shrink down the wires you will be soldering, this way you can cover the bare solder with the heat shrink when you are done. It looks much more professional.

Grab your soldering iron and apply some solder to the tip of the soldering iron.The next step is to then apply the soldering iron to one of the connectors and then apply the solder to the connector itself, the reason you do this is so that when you solder the wire, it will have some solder to grab onto. The next step is to tin the wire itself of the battery. Its just a matter of applying some solder to the wire and holding the soldering iron on the wire. Once this is done you will slide your heat shrink over the newly soldered wire/connector and heat it with a hair dryer. Once this is done you can do the same to the next wire.

The reason we put the heat shrink on after 1 wire has been done is that if you touch the bare battery wire to the other connector, you will short the battery. It will not do well to your battery at all. Once the other connector has the wire soldered its just a matter of sliding the heat shrink over the newly soldered connector and you will have to heat it up again. Your all ready for use.

Double check that your connector wires are right.
Always be careful when you buy batteries that have connectors soldered already, follow the wires and make sure they are the right colour. I have plugged batteries before that were incorrectly wired up, and it nearly blew up my speed controller.

SteveR1960
05-24-2007, 02:06 PM
If you add pics I will sticky this post.