What battery connectors do you use?

[JohnRobHolmes]

I want to see what battery connectors are most popular right now. Vote for what you use the most.

 

[Etype R]

Looks a little one sided so far... Never would have guessed that one to take the lead

 

[chevy42083]

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.

 

[binaryterror]

Deans is the only way to fly...

 

[Destroyer]

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.

 

[STEEL_CITY_CRAWLER]

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...

 

[tomik]

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 .

 

[Etype R]

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.

 

[STEW<CO>]

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.

 

[dezfan]

Deans since the mid 80's."thumbsup"

 

[eric113]

Deans.

 

[binaryterror]

Anyone remember the Tamiyas getting so hot they'd melt together, ah I had to cut many a connector apart.

 

[WheelChair]

Anyone remember the Tamiyas getting so hot they'd melt together, ah I had to cut many a connector apart.

7 cells on the Emaxx did that with that mabuchi 750 motors every time. "thumbsup"

I replaced them twice then went to deans, never had a problem again!

 

[clodstall]

deans on all battery packs

 

[D-ran83]

7 cells on the Emaxx did that with that mabuchi 750 motors every time. "thumbsup"

I replaced them twice then went to deans, never had a problem again!

x2... Same problem and switched to all Deans never had a problem again."thumbsup"

 

[Thorsteenster]

I use Deans the most but still have a few Tamiya type connectors. But they will get changed sooner or later.

 

[drumbeater]

I use Deans, but if you think you have something better let us in on it.

 

[WheelChair]

I use Deans, but I you think you have something better let us in on it.

Wow:shock:

The people at ebonics would even be confused on that one... "thumbsup"

 

[SVEN]

Deans Ultra Plug for everything.

 

[JohnRobHolmes]

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.