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I got some problems with soldering the leads. The solder won't attatch and bind with the leads. How are you guys doing it? Low or high temperature? Thick or thin solder wire? Thanks.
Wire solders OK. Soldering iron hot enough to melt the solder. I use 1.25mm 60/40 solder (60% tin 40% lead) (5 core 362 flux) and it works great, but any small gauge tin/lead solder will do the job. If you are trying to use lead-free or solder without flux it may be harder. Try tinning the wire (put side of the hot soldering iron tip onto wire get it hot and at the same time melt the solder on the wire until it goes shinny (taken some solder).
I totally agree with what Michael said, my suggestion is: use flux, it helps a lot. Did you check your iron tip? Probably it got oxidized and no longer transmits as much heat as it should.
10MM Heatshrink for 8AWG
6MM Heatshrink for 10-12-14 and 16AWG.
6mm shrinks to 2.8mm (measured while posting)
4MM Heatshrink for 18-20AWG
3MM Heatshrink for 22-24AWG
Here is the ampacity (maximum amount of current) that each size of this silicon wire can handle. Keep in mind that this is just a rule of thumb as ambient temperature and air flow will make a difference.
The threads of Turnigy are the best ever! are bathed in silver and this helps the electrical conductivity. The silicone covering, then, facilitates the protection of the wire carrying the resistance to high temperatures even up to 200 degrees centigrade.
The Esc should come with wire on it most of the smaller esc. Will have somewhere in range 20 awg wire so this 16 will be able to handle it no problem but so anything lower than 20 will be fine I bought this to use with my battery connection but also we wired the sec with longer leads with this stuff hope this helpshappy flying
The higher tha awg # the thinner the wire is. The `6 aug is great for your size esc. Would not go much higher than 20 in your setup. Battery wires tend to be a little bigger due to charging rates. and current draw demands.
If your making power lead extensions you will need some 4-5mm heatshrink, 3.5mm bullet conectors and 16-20awg wire. If I'm connecting 2 different gauges, the larger (smaller #)is what I use unless every gram of weight matters.
The quick and easy answer is: It depends. On if the wire is tinned, how many feet you're running, DC, AC, copper, aluminum, etc.
Here is a URL for a "non brand specific" wire size/amps:
***********powerstream****/Wire_Size.htm
The equation they used to come to these conclusions is:
"(AWG), diameters can be calculated by applying the formula D(AWG)=.005·*92((36-AWG)/39) inch. For the 00, 000, 0000 etc. gauges you use -1, -2, -3, which makes more sense mathematically than "double nought." This means that in American wire gage every 6 gauge decrease gives a doubling of the wire diameter, and every 3 gauge decrease doubles the wire cross sectional area. Similar to dB in signal and power levels. An approximate but accurate form of this formula contributed by Mario Rodriguez is D = .460 * (57/64)(awg 3) or D = .460 * (0.890625)(awg 3).
Metric Wire Gauges (see table below)"
There is a very good video on how to solder heavy gauge wires together at flitetest****. It is hard to do correctly, and it does take practice. PRACTICE. Get a decent soldering station too. Like a 936 clone which I think HK sells, if not, do a search on EBAY for "936 soldering station" - it's only $15, and you can get loads of different tips cheap on ebay.
I am in a pinch I have 3s 2750 man 25-50 bat.
Need to wire to 3 esc turnigy plush 18amp. But I don't have any 16 awg wire but I have plenty of 20 awg. Am I asking for trouble? It for a tricopter
Thanks
Yes you can if your tricopter weight around 1kg range. The power for you to hoover the 1kg tricopter around 200 watts, total ampere around 18ampere, you connect each ESC using AWG 20. Means it distribute the current and it will draw 6 ampere per ESC. Current goes double when you fly it but more than enough to handle it. Just don't overweight your tricopter.keep in mind that ,don't use the AWG 20 for the main wire from the battery, the current will be the sum of 3 ESC. Hope this help
My 50A birdie ESC has 3x 16AWG 200C for the motor. I need to extend these cables for my NTM 2200KV motor to fit in the bixler. I guess it should be OK right?
I was thinking of putting motor connectors on each end of the cable, so you can just plug it into the engine and ESC, not solder to the ESC.
should be no prob but remember the connectors need to be rated to carry the current delivered to motor as will as wire .Also its known to be better to lengthen the motor to esc than battery to esc wires.Actually ive done it ive got a number of planes and just forgot, had no problems sticking to the above rule of thumb good luck HAPPY FLYING
Thanks dude!
The three motorcables are 16awg, which I will lengthen, but the two to the battery is 14awg. I agree on rather lengthen motor cables than battery.
16awg should handle up to 74A on RC planes without getting to hot.
You should rather lengthen battery cables - not the motors. This is because battery cables have DC while motor cables have kind of AC - therefore motor cables generate much more interferance so their length should be kept to minimum.
Should be coming back very soon. I ordered mine 45 days ago and it was still in-stock then. With Chinese New Years, everything was backed up, so it was probably a little late. Good luck, Dan.
Soft cable, easy to solder, a must-have for applications around 25A.
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Very nice wire. Does a great job for my Easy Glider Pro, providing power from my 20C 3000mah packs.
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really good wire. very flexible and light. i like it more than the standard silicon 20AWG wire.
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These are good silicone cables, almost unbeatable at the price. It's not the most flexible cable I've had, but then again the insulation can take a whole lot of beating compared to other silicone cables. Sadly the wire itself can't hold it's shapes as the softer kind of silicone cables. It'll hold up nicely under lots of mechanical stress though! Aprox. 3mm diametre with insulation 16 AWG = Aprox. 1.31mm2 More than enough for most airsoft guns
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