What battery plugs do you use in your AEG?
 

Just want to get a feeling of who is using Deans plugs or Tamiya plugs in their AEGs nowadays.

I'm throwing XT60s under the "Other" category.

I have a combo of both, As much as I like the XT60's Deans are better fit physically in my guns. Also recently before going to Rhino I converted my entire team to Deans.

If they could make a touch smaller xt60 I would be happy. That plug is easy to solder (hard to do a cold solder joint on those posts), has a grove around the post to make sure the heatshrink covers the whole exposed post. has good solid connection, near impossible to melt.


I recently orders a bunch of Deans connectors from hobby king, and they are really nice. the Plastic is the same plastic as the XT60, so its hard to melt.

regular deans for the last 10 years(airsoft) and 20ish for rc

I use some deans and some EC3 as well

I have converted all AEG's but the KA FAL to deans and all batteries but a couple Madbull 12.8V LIFE batteries that are still mini's since they feed the FAL. :)

It's now the first thing that I do when I get a new AEG. My only beef is that the newer batch of Modify deans connectors don't always mate properly with the older ones. They are extremely snug and sometimes don't want to seat. Once connected though, they work fine.

Deans are the way to go. XT60 are nice but won't fit into some setups. Deans connectors are the perfect size and has a solid connection. I agree with coach about the new Modify Deans connectors. They are a tight fit but it's solid. I don't really like the material it's made from either, as it seems to melt easier compared to the old ones.

I think it can safely be said that deans kicks every other connector's ass for popularity.

I'm a big advocate of XT60 but I've always also thrown in the "not for everyone" caveat in there.

Deans really is the mass market solution here and what we should be recommending to new players (and what we should be asking for if/when manufacturers survey us about this topic).

People who go with EC3, Trax, or XT60 are usually experts at soldering and can swap out the connectors in a matter of seconds anyway -- they're personal preference type connectors.

XT60 all the way.

XT60 in all my AEGs.

Deans = old tech
Tamiya = low tech

xt60s here. pretty much because Maciek told me to. Easy to solder and heat shrink; a nice bridge between deans and tamiya. I also dislike how exposed the contacts are on deans when not plugged in.

I prefer deans over tamiya/standard connectors. But I'll probably get rid of them both, and use traxxas connectors because I can grip them better. EC3 plugs are great too.

Only on the gun end. On the battery where it matters they're not exposed at all.

Deans.

For some reason, my first gun come with Tamiya but the battery come with deans.

Do not have the parts to replace either one at that time, so I cut 2 pieces of aluminum plus some heatshrink to make a "makeshift" deans plug to test the gun before the real deans plugs get shipped.

Easier than makeing Tamiya plug from scrap...

XT60's. A good majority of my customers are asking to make the switch to XT60's as well.

Hah, I'd rather not wield that kind of influence. We hardly even see each other on the field these days!

Agreed, the biggest win of XT60 is clean and completely non-frustrating soldering. I would endure quite a jump in price and other inconveniences just to get the super easy and secure soldering that you get with XT60.

I've got XT60's ready to be installed but i just haven't gotten around to doing it, i know XT60's are easy to solder. but now a new gun i got now came with deans so i will be leaving deans on that gun.

Now i have a concern and questions, i was looking at getting a mosfet and the mosfet has deans connectors, and its mostly for the gun i want to put XT60 on, so should i just forget about the XT60 and just go with deans ?

and this is the Mosfet i am looking at getting, so i guess if i didn't want to go with deans and go with XT60 i could go with a raptor or something ?

That's 100% up to you, Deans and XT60 are pretty much evenly-matched in terms of power delivery. It's all about convenience and personal preference. Either choice is safe.

Okay perfect! well i think im going to stick with deans, no point of going with deans and XT60 to many battery which different connectors. might as well have half as many battery's with all the same connectors,

but yes i haven't gamed with deans yet but i can only imagine how much better they are going to be then tamyia's

Just converted all my rifles to repro deans, soldering them doesn't bug me that much.

Waiting to order a few Deans and batteries from hobbyking.

So far all my AEG's are stock tamiyas :C They are a pain.

My charger didn't have a Tamiya cable with it, so I switched my guns and batteries to Deans. I buy them at the local hobby shop.

Deans all the way. Besides being less popular and having to solder them on, i think deans wins in every way possible

I find that Deans are no more difficult to solder properly than XT60s. It takes more effort but it's not really more difficult. If you're having difficulty then look into changing your soldering setup, get more practice, or use flux, which makes a world of a difference for me. They make knockoff Deans now with grips as well so that's 2 advantages that I don't see XT60s as having. XT60s are great if your setup can take it but if space is a premium (buffer tube lipo, etc.) then I would have no choice but to stick with deans.

You could get a soldering buddy from hobbyking too!

Deans are pretty straight forward to solder without a helper.

As long as you tin the wires and deans first and have a minimum 40w iron, you're golden.

I do sometimes lay my snips or pliers on the dean to add a bit of weight but once everything is tinned, sandwich your iron between the wire and contact to heat. Once they start to heat and you see the solder start to melt, pull the iron out and press them together while laying the iron on top of the wire to ensure a good heat transfer through the wire.

Use what you like. I still see a lot of people using Tamiya.

XT60 are bullet connectors with a nice grip around it. You can always use standalone bullet connectors to save space.

I use deans, I'd like to try the xt60s but since they're a bit larger and space is at a premium in my p90, I use deans for the size, and because I share batteries with my other guns, they all run deans.


had a bad run in with shitty solder a couple weeks ago... for some reason it wouldn't melt at my iron's regular temp, and holding it longer ended up melting the terminal right out of the plug. o_o

Only gripe I have with deans is the lack of grip, but I've upgraded to XT deans, no more problems.
There's also different brands of deans that are off spec, but if you bend the + tab outwards a little bit, it ensures proper contact with everything.
And best of all, deans can be jammed into other types of connectors for charging! lol
I've used deans to charge large tamiya and 2 prong electric shavers before
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If you really like deans then stay with deans with grips. The XT60 is not so big you can not use it. Your Lipo and wiring is chewing majority of the space.

well that and the bigass cheetah 2N is taking up a good portion as well, it prevents the wires from easily tucking into the U shape created by the gearbox and motorcage.

I had crappy knockoff deans that were ridiculous hard to plug into real deans, and I'm also a bit leery of some of the solder joints. I've layered shrinktube to build up strength as well as shrink tube over the deans plug and the wires to create a pulling surface to pull them apart.

Just happened today when I was changing a newly obtained gun to Deans.
Accidentally put Male plug on the battery... Didn't notice until I want to charge...
WTF did I solder...

Last deans I put on my stuff I drilled holes through the blade and put the wire through so it does a Z through the hole so wire on top & bottom. Solder & heatshrink and all good.

Nice idea.