An Electric Primer for Fuel Guys

[Patrick M]

BTW one thing with Lipo and the 6mm plugs we all seem to use now - has anyone established a convention about how these should be wired eg is polarity best determined by male and female plugs or by colour coding. Was there a convention with the 4mm and 3.5mm plugs when used on cell to connections?
If the former is the male positive or negative output from the battery. Should leads be a differnet length to reduce the likelihood of shorted leads.

Which is safest? And it may help in the future if packs and esc's were able to be swapped between boats.

The convention used by most racers and a standard in use since I began racing electric cars in the early '80's, is to always use a female connector on the positive side of any power source. This can easily be remembered by the phrase "Red Hot Female".

 

[Andrewg]

Pat

spoken like a man proud of his drag racing past! - thankyou