Lipo balance lead

[Munchbox]

So my new Torment came with a 5000mah 2 s lipo and a charger. Both seem to work fine but the balance lead has seen better days. Two of the wires are showing copper. Any way to chop the bad wire off and put a new connector on?

[Juls1]

If the wire near the plug and near the battery is ok it’s probably easiest to just cut it out and add in some wire. You could also just cut it off, heatshrink then wires then solder it back on.

ive never seen a fresh balance plug available on its own no wires. It probably does exsist though. 

[berman]

You could cut them off and solder on new ones but an easier way would be to unpin the the connectors from the plug and slide a bit of heatshink on and heat it up the plug the connectors back in

[Munchbox]

Berman I think that's what I'll do. After heat shrinking the individual wires I may add a heat shrink over all 3 just to beef it up some. 

What are your thoughts on Dean's vs  ec3 connectors? I know Tamiya connectors are less favorable for their lower current rating. My cars are now a hodgepodge of connectors. 2 cars with Tamiya connectors, 1 with a Dean's connector. 2 batts with Tamiya connectors, 2 with ec3 connectors, 1 with a Dean's connector. Thinking of standardizing to one type across the board. What is preferred?

[ncpantherfan71]

1 hour ago, Munchbox said:

 

What are your thoughts on Dean's vs  ec3 connectors? I know Tamiya connectors are less favorable for their lower current rating. My cars are now a hodgepodge of connectors. 2 cars with Tamiya connectors, 1 with a Dean's connector. 2 batts with Tamiya connectors, 2 with ec3 connectors, 1 with a Dean's connector. Thinking of standardizing to one type across the board. What is preferred?

Both Dean's and ec3 are much better than Tamiya plugs.   I like Dean's because they are a little smaller.  Some people think the ec3 are easier to solder because they are like bullets but I don't have a hard time with Dean's most of the time. 

Just use whatever you like best. 

[Munchbox]

It seems like my Dt03 (3600kv brushless, 19t pinion) has no more punch on a lipo than it does on a nimh. Do you suppose it could be the Tamiya ESC connector choking the current down or perhaps the gearing?

[danb1974]

You don't want to use tamiya connectors with lipo. Under anything than light usage, it would melt.

Normally when you switch to lipo it's like "what the..." followed by (on stock brushed systems) the smell of an overheated motor

[Jonathon Gillham]

3 hours ago, Munchbox said:

It seems like my Dt03 (3600kv brushless, 19t pinion) has no more punch on a lipo than it does on a nimh. Do you suppose it could be the Tamiya ESC connector choking the current down or perhaps the gearing?

What ESC are you using? I don't notice a huge difference between NiMH and lipo in my TT02B with a 13.5T and TBLE-02S, but when I am using one of my programmable ESC and have some turbo and boost programmed in then the difference is like night and day. The NiMH can deliver the current until you up the boost and turbo, then its maxed out and it doesn't get any faster, but a decent lipo can deliver whats asked and makes it ballistic.

I use XT60 connectors but deans or ec3 should be fine for bashing. For racing i use bullets connected to the esc so i plug them directly into the battery

[Munchbox]

Yeah this is just for bashing. I'm using tble02s with 2400 and 3600kv brushless motors in my Lunchbox and Dt03 respectively. I've tried my brothers lipos in each car for a couple minutes before and didn't really notice a difference which is one reason I've stayed NIMH until now. 

Actually both of those cars are setup just right and run great on nimh. Any more power would be too much.