Shortening servo/ESC leads

[andrewc]

Hi all

What's the general consensus here? I'm half decent at soldering.

1 Open ESC/servo and shorten/solder at board

2 Cut wires mid way/shorten/solder/heat-shrink

3 Cut connector off/shorten/crimp new connector on

If it's crimp new connector, any recommendations on a starter set for crimping with tool/connectors included? Loads on the 'bay but never sure on quality.

Any thoughts appreciated, thank you

[bretts]

Send to NextLevelRC and have black ones put on.

PM 'Ben' on here

[MattW]

Funnily enough, I did one earlier today. Option 1 for me - because I wanted to use black wires. I do also use option 3 if it already has black wires! I have crimp tool that I bought years ago from a shop that did a lot of flight stuff.

[andrewc]

Any further thoughts on this? Still haven't got round to doing it but still considering it!

Any advice on cutting off/crimping on new connectors? Decent tool for the job?

[pugs]

Originally Posted by andrewc

Any further thoughts on this? Still haven't got round to doing it but still considering it!

Any advice on cutting off/crimping on new connectors? Decent tool for the job?

Option 1 for me, but I am an electronics engineer

[dlr]

I bought a proper crimping tool, watched a video which made it look easy.........not sworn so much for a long time! Getting the littler 'kers back into the plug was just ridiculous and then a wire pulled out..

Unless you have a lot of patience or a hatred of heatshrink, I would just shorten/solder/heatshrink your existing one

[dontfollowme]

Originally Posted by bretts

Send to NextLevelRC and have black ones put on.

PM 'Ben' on here

Can anyone please point me to him?

Thanks

[fidspeed]

"Ben" is Ben Jemison team Schumacher driver and all round nice guy

just look in "community" section and send him a PM im sure s a member of York club he based up that way

I too have a crimping tool success and failure in equal measures at times

im not sure I can afford to keep buying plug/pin repair kits to practice on !!

I just tend to "loosely" coil excess wire and cable tie having 50 or so chariots to play with ,electrics do tend to get evicted and rehomed occasionally

regards dave

[dontfollowme]

There's so many Ben's on here. How do I know which one he is? Lol!

[bretts]

His username is Ben I'm pretty sure. Also he runs NextLevelRc. Look on facebook for him.

[terry.sc]

Originally Posted by andrewc

If it's crimp new connector, any recommendations on a starter set for crimping with tool/connectors included? Loads on the 'bay but never sure on quality.

Try Hobbyking.

Servo plugs http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/s...dproduct=65799

Crimping tool
http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/s...arehouse_.html

These are good quality and all I use these days instead of soldering. It does take a little bit of practice but is simple once you get the hang of it.