Losi 8ight-XE | バレットコネクタの取り付け

Losi 8ight-XE | バレットコネクタの取り付け

[Music] Hey everyone, welcome back to Redman Racing. Welcome back to the channel. We got the Los C8 XE here and I’m going to be doing something I have never done before. We’re going to extend some wires. Now, when I mean extending, I mean taking these off and putting some new ones on. We’re going to get into this in a second. I also got some new bullet connectors I’m going to try. I’m not sure which ones I’m going to try, but we’ll go over both of them and see which ones not just fit better, but seem like they’ll work better. So, I’m not sure which ones I’m going to use yet. I got this battery a while ago. I really want to run it. It’s the Jen’s Ace Redline, but it does take bullet connectors, which is really what I want to run. And by switching this out and making these wires longer, so I can run these types of batteries, it gives me a wider option of batteries. I can run shorty packs, you know, low center gravity batteries. So, it really opens up for different styles cuz right now I feel like there’s only a few batteries I can run in this. I want to get that center of gravity really low, especially if I’m going to be taking this on the track more. I want to put this in. I want to see how this is going to work. All right, first things first. Let’s check out this battery. Like I said, this is Jen’s Ace Redline. This is a 4S lipo. Definitely like how they package it. This is a really nice hard shell battery. Look. What is this? Okay. To balance. So, this is a 6,000 milliamp battery at 130C burst. So, that’s pretty cool. Let’s see what else it comes with. Looks like it does come with some bullets. Let me see if I can’t grab those. Grab those out. So, it does come with some bullets that you can use. Uh, we won’t be using these, but we’ll definitely check them out. Maybe they’ll work with some of the plugs that we have. Yeah. Also comes with a balancing port. also comes with some cool stickers and some instructions. So, here we got the car. Now, if I want to run this battery, let’s go ahead and just install the battery here. But if I were to put the battery, let’s say, right there, cuz that way I have a little bit of room in the back, but I can still get to the bullets cuz otherwise the straps are covering the bullets. As you guys can see, the connector can’t reach the battery. So, that’s why we’re changing this. I want more battery options, and this just isn’t going to do it. Now, as far as this wire goes, this is for the uh the battery sensor, which is a, you know, it’s great to have on your remote if you like that sort of thing, but honestly, we don’t even use it. I think on the crate that that wire is broken like two or three times, so we just kind of left it off. Not worry about this. I’ll probably just leave this off cuz I really don’t need it. Let’s see what kind of stuff that we’re going to be putting on here. Now, I did get the TQ wiring. Now, this is the 10 gauge. I did get the red and black because that will help just to eliminate any kind of possible mistakes. You know, if I have someone help me out maybe on this car or they want to run it, I don’t want two black wires on here and then maybe they put the bullets in wrong cuz when you’re dealing with bullets, you can easily put them in the wrong spot. But to help aid that, also, I did get the bullet connectors that are a little bit easier to grab. You can use these. There’s nothing wrong with them, but I want to be able to be able to grab it. My fingers are kind of big, so I want something easier to grab. A lot of people are running the OneUp racing heat sink bullet plugs. Not for the heat sink itself, but because they’re easy to grab and you can angle them. These are the same thing. I can open this real quick. I had it open before. I haven’t seen too much information on these, so that’s why I’m not sure if I’m going to use them. So, it does come with a lot of little stuff. It does come with uh some heat shrink tube. Here’s your pull sleeves, which I really like because they’re big. They’re easy to grab. Here are your bullets. And these are the pins that you’re going to be soldering on. I’ll be honest, guys. I had to really look this stuff up to find out how this went. Let me see if I can’t replicate it right now. Okay, I had to test it really quick because there is no information online. So, I kind of just fiddle around with it because I had it figured out at one point. So, what you’re going to do is you take this five m 5 mm bullet. Hold it closer to camera. 5mm bullet. You’re going to put it in this slot right here with the flat piece facing down. Facing down. And as you can see, there’s a hole in the top. So, with that facing down, you’re going to solder your wire into this guy right here. And then you’re going to put it into the bottom here, like that. Now, on the top, you’re going to screw this screw down, and that’s going to hold everything together because in this piece that the wire goes to, that’s a threaded hole. So, that’s what holds everything on. So, the bullet would go in to your car like this, which is actually kind of nice. I’m going to mess around with this for a little bit and see which one I end up using. These are kind of nice. I do like the design. So, it really just depends on which one I’m going to use. These are kind of bigger to grab rather than these. These are really self-explanatory. These go in pretty simple. These look like they might be easier to grab. So, I’m going to play around with a little bit, see which ones I’m going to use, and we’re going to put it in the car in this video. And hopefully, we can get those wires taken off that ESC with no issues. So, let’s just jump into it. To make this a little bit easier, I’m going to remove the ESC from the car. That way I have better access to this wire on this side because it is kind of in the way of that servo horn. And I want to make sure I have really good access to this so I don’t damage anything. And I’ll just probably get a zip tie and strap it around it so it holds it down so it doesn’t move while I’m soldering. First thing I’m going to do is carefully take a nice sharp razor blade. I’m going to get that heat shrink off. There we go. off just to get the other one off. Put this tape right here just to keep these wires from accidentally getting too hot from the solder gun. There we go. All right. So, we got those exposed. This wire, like I said, I’m really not too worried about this wire. And if you guys look down right here, right there, positive. On this side, there should be a negative. Negative. The sonic tip that I’m going to use, which is really recommended, is a nice large surface dig. A nice large surface tip because that’s going to give you more more area to apply the heat. Now, the temperature I’m going to put this at, it’s going to be pretty high. We’re going to try 750. If you guys want to see it, there’s my gauge right there. So, it’s about 751. I think the main thing with the soldering part, you want to solder a gun that has high temp because you don’t want to leave the gun on there too long because you could damage other things. You can get the wires too hot, get the component too hot. You want that direct heat really fast, nice and hot to get uh to get the connector off. Tin this a little bit. Here we go. By tinning the gun a little bit, it transferred the heat a lot faster. So, with that right there, we can probably leave all that in there. We can leave that in there. There we go. That came off really clean. Let’s get our new wire. Same size. This is 10 gauge. Let’s go ahead and get these ready. So, I’m going to do is take the tip, roll it around on the razor blade. many different ways you can do this, but you go. Just like that. Now, on this side, I’m going to go ahead and get these tinned. That way, when I put them on, it’ll go on nice and easy. All right. So, now I’m going to go ahead and tin these. I got a little bit of flux on there to help transfer transfer it. Let’s get this nice and hot. I’m sorry if you guys can hear the fan. It is starting to get hot in here again. So, I think that one came out pretty nice. Now, in no way am I a professional at soldering these. I like soldering wires, but on RC cars, it’s a little bit different. But you want that nice and shiny. You want that solder shiny. You don’t want it dull. If it’s dull, I would definitely redo it. You want it nice and shiny. That way you got enough solder on there. That way when you put it on, melts on there perfect. Start with the negative side. Then we’ll go to the positive side. All right. I’m going to add a little bit more solder to this one. Uh, that one’s almost full. I’m definitely going to add more to that one. And what I’m going to try and do is get that really nice and hot and then just go ahead and dip the wire in. It’s going to make it a lot easier. The last thing you want to do is get it too hot where the wire becomes stiff because we need these wires to be able to tuck down. If they don’t tuck down and they stick up too high because the wire gets hard from all the solder, the body is not going to sit right because unfortunately there’s not a lot of clearance above this ESC. So, we’re gonna have to make sure that we do this right. Easiest way to get this to melt real quick is to pre-tin. And there’s plenty of solder in there. So, let’s go to the other one. All right, that one looks pretty good. Actually, that’s not bad. Yeah, I kind of nicked the ESC and the plastic a little bit right there. So, I’m not too worried about it. Yeah, not bad. That negative one looks really nice. The positive one is actually on there really well. Um, I didn’t go too far in the back, which is good. It’s nice and shiny. And I did get it all the way to the back, so it’s definitely secure. Let’s go throw some heat shrink on that. All right, I’m going to put the heat shrink all the way down right there. I’m use a heat gun. You don’t want to use a flame, obviously, near the ESC. Put on low. Let’s test that out. Yeah, this see this one’s a little high. If you guys can see that, that sits a little high. This one sits nice and flat. So, this one probably got a little too hot during the solder, but it’s on there well. The only way to test it is to go ahead finish this up and put the body on and make sure it sits flat. Now, if I put my battery in, which was right about here, these wires I’m probably going to secure back to this bracket, means this is how much wire I have left. That’s if I anchor it right there, which is kind of where it was before. Let’s put this battery in like we were going to run it right now. Angled connectors right about there. You know what? Let’s leave them the way that they are. For the bullets I’m going to use, I think I’m going to go with the Supra X because these are the ones that the battery came with and they are definitely longer. If you look at these, the OneUp racings are definitely shorter as you can see right there. Definitely shorter. But now on the Super X, once these are in, which is going to look like this. So, they’re going to be right about there. So, I think that’s what I want to use. Now, if I end up needing to switch, I’ll switch. But let me know what you guys think. What do you guys use? If you guys even use these. I do like this style. This style is kind of nice. They slide in right here. After you solder it on to the bullet, you would slide this in right there. And then there’s a set screw. You screw down the set screw. We’re going to try them. If I don’t like them, I’m going to switch these. So, I think we’re going to go ahead and try these first. All right. So, let’s go ahead and get these done. Honestly, doesn’t take much to cut these. I got a good amount of solder on there. That actually looks really good right there. With that on there, let’s see if this goes on. Cuz what I’m worried about that being too tall. Yeah, that’s kind of what I was worried about. It’s that top piece right there. Maybe we can press that down a little bit more. That did press down a little bit more. Let’s see if that fits. Now, I don’t like the way these are going on to be honest with you. Pretty sure they’ll go on, but man, that’s that’s more than just a tight fit. All right, guys. We are going to go with the Supra. I would have to grind this this wire down far too much to get that to work. And I definitely am not doing that. So, we’re going to use this one. I’m going to kind of flatten this out a little bit and get this ready. I had to switch cuz that jig did not work. This thing Oops. This thing got hot and the magnet already came off the bottom. So, uh, not the best quality from hot racing as far as a jig goes. So, I’m back to a block of wood. And I’m just going to kind of hold it down. All right. So, that looks much better, especially on the sides right here because it’s got to be thin enough to go inside. That should work there. That’s nice and tight. All right. So, now you can go ahead and put some put your heat shrink on. All right. I’m actually going to put just a little bit more heat shrink on the ends here. Just make sure that the wires are protected. It’s going to go inside here facing down. And this is going to go inside. And here we go. That’s what they look like. I mean, they look really nice. I must say that they look really, really nice. Go ahead and put this in. [Music] There you go. Everything’s working good. Now, like I said, the only drawback is, yes, you don’t have the battery indicator on the remote anymore, but that’s okay. The only thing you’re going to want to be really careful on is unplugging a battery like this because once you unplug it, you don’t want this to touch anything ground. You start arcing. So, you just got to be really mindful of that. All right, guys. Well, that’ll do it for that. That looks a lot better. I’m going to be able to use this battery finally. I’ve been waiting to use this. This is a really nice battery. Uh should offer a lot of punch and a lot of kick. The plug keeps coming out. Might get a couple more of these and I’m definitely going to try out some shorty packs. So, if you guys have some recommendations for the shorty packs, let me know. I’ll definitely try those. And I do have one more package of those connectors so I can make a little jumper if I’m going to run those. Uh the one up racing bullet connectors. I think 10 gauge might be a little bit too big and I didn’t want to have to trim down the the solder on the wire with the grinder just to make it fit. So, I don’t want to do that. I’m pretty sure these would work really really well on anything other than 10 gauge. 10 gauge is kind of big. So, maybe maybe your smaller 10 scale cars, these probably work just fine. I’m pretty sure I could have maybe squeeze these down a little bit more to give them the fit. I didn’t want to risk it. and those other connectors actually turn out really well. I do like these. I do like that the bullets are definitely a lot longer. What I’m going to end up doing is spread these out just a little bit to make sure they’re a tight fit. And if you guys were wondering, while I have the battery connected and they’re connected that they won’t touch no matter which way you put them, they’re far enough to where they will not touch. So, you don’t have to worry about that. Like I said, this is a great battery. Um, I’m hoping to get some good run times out of it. And I plan on getting one more, but please recommend some shorty packs. which one you guys have used. Jenzace does make a few, but I know Protek makes some really nice ones, too. So, yeah, recommend a battery. That’d be great. And hopefully we’ll get this thing back at the track. But everything turned out good. This is really simple. Well, I hope this video answers some questions because I don’t see a lot of videos talking about bullet connectors. So, I hope that helped you guys out. I’m testing them as I go. So, if these don’t work out, I might switch to something else. Maybe I might get these to work. I don’t know, maybe there’s some different ones I might try. But I will update you guys on how this is going, how it’s running, if it’s worth doing, and seeing if these bullets hold up and stay in. We got a lot of repairs coming, a lot of cool videos coming, a lot of bashing. So stay tuned. Make sure you guys like, subscribe. 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I’m very happy with the bullet connector installation; everything went very well. The Gens Ace Red Line LiPo should offer a lot of power. I’m hoping to pick up a few shorty packs before going back to the track. Please comment on any suggestions you may have.

RCPROPLUS RC5 5mm Bullet Connector Set w/Aluminum Housing:
https://www.amainhobbies.com/rcproplus-rc5-5mm-bullet-connector-set-w-aluminum-housing-rppreb5812rc5al/p1406868

TQ Wire Silicone Wire Kit (Black & Red) (1′ Each) (10AWG):
https://www.amainhobbies.com/tq-wire-silicone-wire-kit-black-red-1-each-10awg-tqw1102/p1451119?v=659808

1UP Racing Heatsink Bullet Plug Grips w/5mm Bullets (Black/Red):
https://www.amainhobbies.com/1up-racing-heatsink-bullet-plug-grips-w-5mm-bullets-black-red-1up190436/p1326707

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