electric meltdown

[rckid91]

today i finally got my rustler and noticed that the male conector to the battery had a little bit of the insulation tore of but beng anxious i decided to play anyway and after about 4 batteries were dead the car suddenly stopped working hmmm i thought well after a quick inspection i noticed the two wires melted together.

can i just cut the melted pieces and put in a new connector or do i need to unsloder the leads and put new ones on if so will this work for leads??

http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXGG99&P=7

 

[digger]

Deans. Can't find them on Tower? I know I have got them from there.

 

[abadk9420]

http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXHGL9&P=M http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXGDU8&P=M http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXKX26&P=M Here are links for deans plugs both male and female as well as some good wire to complete the job.

 

[Mattyfats420]

i know my LHS supplies all kinds of connectors including deans

 

[rckid91]

i connot chnage the connectors because i have to be able to run my batteries in my roto starter as well right now I'm just asking if that plug can be soldered onto the esc

 

[abadk9420]

yes you could just cut off the old plug and use the new tamya plug but be careful they are known for melting to gether exspecialy when using mod motors...there is alot of curent draw and it creates alot of heatin that type of plug, I know this from first hand experiance.

 

[rckid91]

ok so no need to solder new leads?? ill put thermal wraps around the wires to help the heat element

 

[hamz9561]

ill put thermal wraps around the wires to help the heat element

That probably won't do any good. The heat is generated by the current running through the wire.

 

[CharliesTheMan]

If anything I would think it would do more harm than good by not allowing them to dissipate heat, but I could be competely wrong

 

[digger]

The tamiya plugs do not have as good of a connection as the deans. The heat is coming from that part of the plugs.

 

[abadk9420]

Think of Tamya Plugs as a resistor and Deans Plugs as there being no plug at all get the picture....

 

[rckid91]

o ic so the resistance of the plug is causeing the heat ok so that question solved but now i need to figure out how i can make a deans connecter run my jato ez-start and my revo roto start because i only have 2 batteries for all these things and cannot afford new batteries atm

 

[Plaidfish]

you cut your battery wires shorter and make a deans to tamiya adapter....then extend the ESC battery leads....and make sure you run the motor wires directly to the ESC or make deans connectors there as well.....

 

[rckid91]

my motor to esc wires just have electrical crimp splices like you would use in an automobile or such and they dont seem to get hot just the esc to battery wires got hot and melted ill have to talk my dad into letting my change the battery connectors cause hes whining about his jato starter back not fittng with an adapter in there so.. thanx ill have to see what i can do
deans seem like the way to go so ill have to see how i can go about doing that thanx



also my charger uses tamiya plugs so would haveing an adapter in the affect charging at all??

 

[platgof]

Are you saying you just got it and are already having problems? Is this a lipo system with a brushless motor?

 

[rckid91]

no just a nicd nimh novak esc and a 15 turn motor