MisterG Posted May 5, 2018 Share Posted May 5, 2018 Hi Thinking of switching to Deans Connectors. Anyone know if these are good, https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5-pairs-of-Amass-Sheathed-T-Plug-Dean-Male-Female-Connectors-RC-Lipo-Battery/253049892470?epid=2186000783&hash=item3aeaf2ee76:g:Ps4AAOSwUFtZZ28S Cheers G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporters Sitting Duck Posted May 5, 2018 Supporters Share Posted May 5, 2018 Seem OK just radius corners - might feed better through stock tube (but really how often you do that & there is a file option) they are textured/ribbed which is good basically try to buy ribbed deans coz smooth deans are a bitch to unplug with sweaty hands/gloves There are also other variations like Star Plug which are deans compatible F*ck it - deans is deans for most people - but airsofters should get ribbed deans as stated OK official deans are supposed to be higher quality, better conduction/connection, low resistance But really - as little breaks in wiring as possible, then one china deans won't rob you blindly of power still miles better than crappy small tamiya anyday..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterG Posted May 5, 2018 Author Share Posted May 5, 2018 1 hour ago, Sitting Duck said: Seem OK just radius corners - might feed better through stock tube Thanks for the reply. Just to double check, as those corners seem rounded to me. Is there a better type with more rounded corners? Cheers G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporters Sitting Duck Posted May 5, 2018 Supporters Share Posted May 5, 2018 1 hour ago, Sitting Duck said: Seem OK just radius corners - might feed better through stock tube (but really how often you do that & there is a file option) you can reduce the material a tiny bit but you need some surrounding the metal connector or it will just fall apart there is also mini-deans which some confuse with micro deans - you can't use micro but a couple of guns have had mini deans - still a bit better than small tamiya (but not as good as reg deans....) mini-deans are the ones in black btw if stuff is tight squeeze to feed through Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterG Posted May 5, 2018 Author Share Posted May 5, 2018 Ok thanks. My current gun has full fat Tamiya connectors 😉, so hopefully no issues feeding though the Deans connectors. Cheers G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporters Adolf Hamster Posted May 5, 2018 Supporters Share Posted May 5, 2018 i've been using a 20 pack of amazon special deans for years. given they took 2500v from my coil blow back experimentation without blowing i think i'm justified in saying they'll be fine for an airsoft gun also who needs ribbed deans when you use ridiculously over-specced wire and have mad soldering skills Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterG Posted May 5, 2018 Author Share Posted May 5, 2018 Got myself 5 pairs of those in the link I posted. Will have a go on my oldest battery first, but seems simple enough. I've soldered many times before. Cheers G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporters Adolf Hamster Posted May 5, 2018 Supporters Share Posted May 5, 2018 14 minutes ago, MisterG said: Got myself 5 pairs of those in the link I posted. Will have a go on my oldest battery first, but seems simple enough. I've soldered many times before. Cheers G protip- only cut and solder 1 wire at a time, a lipo short circuiting is not a fun thing to witness. and always female connector on the battery for the same reason. personally i find giving the wires a good tin, then build up a big blob of solder on the connector so you can heat the 2 together without needing to add more helps save the need for 3 hands, probably not best practice but when done right you end up with a nice neat and strong connector. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkman Posted May 12, 2018 Share Posted May 12, 2018 MisterG how did it go by the way? I'm doing the same after my recent issues with batteries caused by the crappy Nuprol charger..now that the batteries are all ok, I'm going to be changing both my guns and all the batteries over to deans tomorrow. Should be fun, haven't soldered in a few years, but will take the advice from what Adolf Hamster suggests...been watching numerous vids on YT just so I don't screw it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterG Posted May 12, 2018 Author Share Posted May 12, 2018 Been manic at work, haven't had a chance to solder them yet. It's part of a wider project to upgrade my G86C. Shiny new barrel arrived on Thursday, bucking arrived yesterday. Probably won't get a chance to do anything until next weekend at the earliest. Am playing tomorrow, and don't want to be making changes just before a skirmish. Let me know how you get on. Cheers G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporters Druid799 Posted May 12, 2018 Supporters Share Posted May 12, 2018 2 hours ago, Monkman said: MisterG how did it go by the way? I'm doing the same after my recent issues with batteries caused by the crappy Nuprol charger..now that the batteries are all ok, I'm going to be changing both my guns and all the batteries over to deans tomorrow. You’ll notice a big difference after you do , so much more efficient , but as others have said be carful when cutting the old connector off your batts , a couple of yrs ago team mate who WAS an electrical engineer in a previous life was changing his connectors over to Deans and cut both at the same time ! 🤦♂️ AND we still haven’t let him forget it ! 🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporters Adolf Hamster Posted May 12, 2018 Supporters Share Posted May 12, 2018 48 minutes ago, Druid799 said: You’ll notice a big difference after you do , so much more efficient , but as others have said be carful when cutting the old connector off your batts , a couple of yrs ago team mate who WAS an electrical engineer in a previous life was changing his connectors over to Deans and cut both at the same time ! 🤦♂️ AND we still haven’t let him forget it ! 🤣 See being a mechanical engineer i'm allowed to make stupid mistakes when it comes to dark magic/electronics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporters Prisce Posted May 12, 2018 Supporters Share Posted May 12, 2018 28 minutes ago, Adolf Hamster said: See being a mechanical engineer i'm allowed to make stupid mistakes when it comes to dark magic/electronics No, no your not. It’s people like you that cause major problems for people like me to fix! Stupid mistakes are my forte, it’s people like you who should fix my stupid mistakes! 😏 Electronics is easier than you think, I’m self taught and managed to get a job in an industry that uses both mechanical and electrical engineering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporters Adolf Hamster Posted May 12, 2018 Supporters Share Posted May 12, 2018 3 hours ago, Prisce said: No, no your not. It’s people like you that cause major problems for people like me to fix! Stupid mistakes are my forte, it’s people like you who should fix my stupid mistakes! 😏 Electronics is easier than you think, I’m self taught and managed to get a job in an industry that uses both mechanical and electrical engineering. electronics is pretty much entirely "this isnt working, but theres no reason whatsoever that it shouldnt" in my experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporters Prisce Posted May 12, 2018 Supporters Share Posted May 12, 2018 It’s so easy to diagnose what’s not working in electrics, in mechanics you can have something not working because a nut is 1/4 turn to tight, or a rotor isn’t shimmed correctly to 0.00025 of a thou( real work issue!), electrics you just work from one end of the system to the other and find the fault, with continuity it’s really systematic. 4 minutes ago, Adolf Hamster said: electronics is pretty much entirely "this isnt working, but theres no reason whatsoever that it shouldnt" in my experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporters Adolf Hamster Posted May 12, 2018 Supporters Share Posted May 12, 2018 18 minutes ago, Prisce said: It’s so easy to diagnose what’s not working in electrics, in mechanics you can have something not working because a nut is 1/4 turn to tight, or a rotor isn’t shimmed correctly to 0.00025 of a thou( real work issue!), electrics you just work from one end of the system to the other and find the fault, with continuity it’s really systematic. Funny i could say the exact same for electronics, at least with mechanical systems a lot of times you can see or hear the issue. Simple electrics is ok, but once you delve into solid state it just gets beyond sanity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporters Prisce Posted May 12, 2018 Supporters Share Posted May 12, 2018 Oh I’m not denying mechanics isn’t easier(I’m mainly mechanical) but I do think electrics are easier than some people would have you believe. I’m no super genius/wizard at anything, but my brain makes more sense of a few hundred wires in a control panel than it does a machine that’s leaking oil for no apparent reason. (We do R&D for a big manufacturer and one of their new built units was running great, then it started to overheat and leak oil simultaneously- even the guys who built it couldn’t understand how or why it was doing so- we found out the casting makers had changed there “recipe” for the castings and it was now slightly Porous, and with the added heat, made it piss oil out) 6 minutes ago, Adolf Hamster said: Funny i could say the exact same for electronics, at least with mechanical systems a lot of times you can see or hear the issue. Simple electrics is ok, but once you delve into solid state it just gets beyond sanity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkman Posted May 14, 2018 Share Posted May 14, 2018 Well, got all the bits today..so went to town on both guns & 5 batteries...it's not he best soldering in the world and may have touched the plastic deans connectors a few times with the iron..but all good connections, both guns function well and even made a little doo-hickey for my mate. (If his battery with tamiya connector goes flat, he can clip in one of my shiny new deans batteries to keep his gun going..) Gonna do a shoot test tomorrow to see what the difference is.. I'm quite impressed it's all worked out well, because there is a well founded saying I've been labelled with.. "Max in a China shop..." (I'm not the most delicate person) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporters Adolf Hamster Posted May 14, 2018 Supporters Share Posted May 14, 2018 i'm impressed you thought of making the adaptor cable, took me years to do that, although my excuse is i was intentionally putting it off because i don't even want tamiya near my guns, honest guv those look pretty well done i must say, good job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporters Lozart Posted May 14, 2018 Supporters Share Posted May 14, 2018 On 5/12/2018 at 6:51 PM, Prisce said: It’s so easy to diagnose what’s not working in electrics, in mechanics you can have something not working because a nut is 1/4 turn to tight, or a rotor isn’t shimmed correctly to 0.00025 of a thou( real work issue!), electrics you just work from one end of the system to the other and find the fault, with continuity it’s really systematic. On 5/12/2018 at 7:10 PM, Adolf Hamster said: Funny i could say the exact same for electronics, at least with mechanical systems a lot of times you can see or hear the issue. Simple electrics is ok, but once you delve into solid state it just gets beyond sanity You crazy kids. You try debugging 2000 lines of machine code at 2am because a production line has mysteriously stopped working! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporters Druid799 Posted May 14, 2018 Supporters Share Posted May 14, 2018 I call your electrical engineering/mechanical engineering and debugging code and raise you a 2yr old child that appears to have feck all wrong with it (as it’s running around like the demented beast that it is) but the mother is insistent the little shit is at deaths door and If you don’t diagnose it’s imaginary problem and cure it then she’s going to complain all the way up to the chief exc !🤦♂️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporters Prisce Posted May 15, 2018 Supporters Share Posted May 15, 2018 8 hours ago, Lozart said: You crazy kids. You try debugging 2000 lines of machine code at 2am because a production line has mysteriously stopped working! No thanks, me and computers don’t see eye to eye, haven’t used one in 7 years(all this is on my phone). I’m in awe of anyone who can use a PC like that. But I’ll raise your 2am prod line to an operating theatre at one of London’s biggest hospitals😉 7 hours ago, Druid799 said: I call your electrical engineering/mechanical engineering and debugging code and raise you a 2yr old child that appears to have feck all wrong with it (as it’s running around like the demented beast that it is) but the mother is insistent the little shit is at deaths door and If you don’t diagnose it’s imaginary problem and cure it then she’s going to complain all the way up to the chief exc !🤦♂️ Hmm, I raise your 2 year old, with our 9 year old foster child, she is Satan’s spawn, all caused by lack of thinking and empathy by social services! I tell everyone, one day I’ll awaken to a knife in my chest with her standing over me! She too is very good at the ole acting malarkey and has frequented A&E with silly little things because Social services protocol is to send them if they create any unreasonable fuss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporters Druid799 Posted May 15, 2018 Supporters Share Posted May 15, 2018 3 hours ago, Prisce said: Hmm, I raise your 2 year old, with our 9 year old foster child, she is Satan’s spawn, all caused by lack of thinking and empathy by social services! I tell everyone, one day I’ll awaken to a knife in my chest with her standing over me! She too is very good at the ole acting malarkey and has frequented A&E with silly little things because Social services protocol is to send them if they create any unreasonable fuss. You have my sympathy mate , see it time and time again with cares trying to do the right thing , but getting tied up in knots by some f**kwit from social services who hasn’t got a clue what there on about but there the ‘professional’ so there right and your wrong ! 🤦♂️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporters Rogerborg Posted May 15, 2018 Supporters Share Posted May 15, 2018 14 hours ago, Lozart said: You try debugging 2000 lines of machine code at 2am because a production line has mysteriously stopped working! Oh, your code had lines did it? Luxury! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporters ImTriggerHappy Posted May 15, 2018 Supporters Share Posted May 15, 2018 12 minutes ago, Rogerborg said: Oh, your code had lines did it? Luxury! Fuck me a my code is bigger than your code standoff lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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