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Bullets or No Bullets in AC2 wiring

Posted by Limebear (Rob) on June 18, 2011 at 1:14am

From previous forum threads on here I had understood that current thinking about bullet connectors was that they are a generally bad idea. The first response to "I had a strange flip" would be along the lines of "Have you soldered your wires and removed those bullet connectors".

I recommended a manual change to reflect this, but had a comment today from Jason saying

"I think you should use bullets. Just get some decent ones."

So I'm confused.What's the party line on this?

Rob

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    Olivier ADLER June 18, 2011 at 3:22am

     

    I would stay away from banana type bullet connectors, and use instead collet style spliced contact bullets like XT150 6mm, Polymax 5.5, Polymax 4mm  or similar ones with large contact surfaces.

     

    I prefer to solder all power connections (except LiPo batteries ones) so that there is always a perfect contact regardless vibrations, oxydation or mechanical miss adjustment of connectors.

     

     

  • DaveyWaveyBunsenBurner June 18, 2011 at 1:21am
    The bullets that come with the stock Arducopter motors arentgreat. They have a tendency to fail. My advice would be to not use them but to purchase some better quality ones if you wish to use them.

    Hope that helps
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