5.5mm Contacts vs. 6.5mm Castle Creations Contacts? Anyone have a compare picture?

[don ferrette]

So with two pages of good info what's the final end game choice for maximizing the contact area on the connectors?

[Darin Jordan]

So with two pages of good info what's the final end game choice for maximizing the contact area on the connectors?

Hahaha... Don... I am going with the longer 5.5mm Contacts. The good ones have a solid contact area and the longer barrel length helps to keep them engaged under various conditions.

A lot of the other mumbo-jumbo is just bench-racing as far as I'm concerned. Not sure most of use would notice a fraction of a mm of contact area one way or the other.

[Chilli]

The end game is go to 8mm bullets for your trials boats Don..

The 5.5's and 6.5's both work great in the vast majority of mid power applications provided the soldering is done correctly. Personally I've been using the OSE 5.5's on all my heat racers 4S and below for five years now and have never had a problem. Anything bigger or for trials boats, I go to Castle 8's.

[Darin Jordan]

The end game is go to 8mm bullets for your trials boats Don..

The 5.5's and 6.5's both work great in the vast majority of mid power applications provided the soldering is done correctly. Personally I've been using the OSE 5.5's on all my heat racers 4S and below for five years now and have never had a problem. Anything bigger or for trials boats, I go to Castle 8's.

Agree... :)

[don ferrette]

Hahaha... Don... I am going with the longer 5.5mm Contacts. The good ones have a solid contact area and the longer barrel length helps to keep them engaged under various conditions.

A lot of the other mumbo-jumbo is just bench-racing as far as I'm concerned. Not sure most of use would notice a fraction of a mm of contact area one way or the other.

All good Darin, so who's connectors are you partial to?

[don ferrette]

The end game is go to 8mm bullets for your trials boats Don..

The 5.5's and 6.5's both work great in the vast majority of mid power applications provided the soldering is done correctly. Personally I've been using the OSE 5.5's on all my heat racers 4S and below for five years now and have never had a problem. Anything bigger or for trials boats, I go to Castle 8's.

So I guess I shouldn't tell you all those blistering 100+ mph passes you've seen me do the last couple trials have been on Neu 6mm ends.......

[Jeremy78]

Take a piece of any wire, be it 10G or 8G wire. If it is stranded and not tinned it has and X value of cross sectional conductance. As soon as you tin the end of that wire it all changes, the cross sectional area decreases to the external surface of the whole piece of wire.

This is why I say 8mm bullets are a waste of time. Some people cam wrap their heads around this others just say I'm full of it.

So IMO as long as the connector is of decent quality, the diameter of the connector does not need to exceed the diameter of the wire once tinned.

TRUCKPULL aka Larry Jaques wins many races at his club in Florida and swears by Hobby Kings, AM-1005, 5.5mm connectors. I use them too and they do well by me. HK sells another 5,5mm plug that is plain crap.

Take a look at his videos of LSH and P-sport hydro, he is no slouch, nor are his boat setup.

Their are better connectors out there but, not for the price of the AM-1005's. HK also has some other very, very nice connectors that I will try very soon in higher amp boats. So far they worked very well in my 40" 6S mono, the XT150's. I don't use the bulky plastic case, just lots of heat shrink.



Just my .02 worth.

Yeah, you are full of it. Ever electrician in the history of the world knows that conductive value increases with wire gauge increase. Being tinned only purpose is to make certain of a good solder joint. Having more wires in the strand increases "flow potential" if your amps are high enough to use the full flow of three wire your obviously getting plenty of conductivity.

[jkflow]

Hope you are aware that you are replying to a thread from 2014....

[fweasel]

Hope you are aware that you are replying to a thread from 2014....