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connectors for a 600 electric sized bird

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Kevin - 27 Jul 2008 17:30 GMT
just curious are deans T style connectors ok for the 600 class sized
helicopters? as we had one go in today down my club that got hot enough
to melt the solder and came completely undone causing £350ish worth of
damage
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Steve R. - 28 Jul 2008 01:25 GMT
> just curious are deans T style connectors ok for the 600 class sized
> helicopters? as we had one go in today down my club that got hot enough to
> melt the solder and came completely undone causing £350ish worth of damage

If you are talking about these,
http://www.rctoys.com/rc-toys-and-parts/DE-ULTRA/RC-PARTS-CONNECTORS-WIRING.html
?gclid=CNjY7fum4ZQCFQgWiQodPnb_SQ
,
then they should have been just fine.  A friend of mine is flying an X-Cell
Ion with two 5S packs run in series.  That's 42 volts when fully charged,
and he's had no problems in three years of running them.  It sounds like
something else may have gone wrong if these are what you're talking about.
Is it possible that something shorted out after the crash?

Things like this are really hard to diagnose after the fact sometimes.  Best
of luck figuring out what happened!

Fly Safe,
Steve R.
Kevin - 28 Jul 2008 08:21 GMT
>> just curious are deans T style connectors ok for the 600 class sized
>> helicopters? as we had one go in today down my club that got hot
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> Fly Safe,
> Steve R.
definitetly failed before the crash it completely lost power and fell
and solder blobs where all over the inside of the canopy, only one side
of the connector heated up, looking at the mating side only a very small
area was bare metal the rest was covered with melted plastic so it
possible was only a partial joint

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The OTHER Kevin in San Diego - 01 Aug 2008 00:25 GMT
>just curious are deans T style connectors ok for the 600 class sized
>helicopters? as we had one go in today down my club that got hot enough
>to melt the solder and came completely undone causing £350ish worth of
>damage

Been flying them on both my Trex 600s for over two years.  No problems
at all..  Guys I fly with are running up to 10S LiPo on theirs using
these connectors.

Sounds like it had a dead short somewhere or the solder joints were
cold/cracked.
 
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