8mm connectors vs. 6.5mm connectors

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  • ray schrauwen
    Fast Electric Addict!
    • Apr 2007
    • 9471

    #16
    You have me sold, now that is something to chew on! Cool and thank you! Merry Christmas!



    Originally posted by NativePaul
    The good 3.5mm connectors Joerg tested were the inside out ones with a solid 3.5mm OD male and split 3.5mm ID female like these


    Nearly all connectors are made from plated brass (the only exception that I know of are the hollow aluminium 4mm Kontronic connectors) and brass despite having a decent copper content is a p!$s poor conductor at just 28% of copper's conductivity, so if your brass bullet connector was the same size as the wire it would be a huge bottleneck, and it needs to be far bigger than the copper wire to flow the same amount of electricity without heating up more than the wire.
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    • rickwess
      Senior Member
      • Apr 2013
      • 777

      #17
      You're a smart guy Ray. When in doubt, decide what to use based the the current handling the manufacture specs.

      I personally use 6.5mm on all my 4s batteries/motors. Not always for current rating, but it does allow me to only need one kind of charger adaptor.

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